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• ... that Mooers House (pictured), an example of West Coast Victorian architecture, is named for its owner who struck gold after years of prospecting in the Mojave Desert?
• ... that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's second novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction?
• ... that Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for a campaign of disinvestment from Israel?
• ... that there are over three thousand miles of interstate highways and U.S. Routes in the state of Utah?
• ... that the BEL Weapon Locating Radar was developed after engineers noticed that the Rajendra Radar could unexpectedly detect and track artillery shells?
• ... that Drukair flights between Kathmandu, Nepal and Paro, Bhutan pass close to Mount Everest?
• ... that Dustin Lance Black is the only writer on Big Love, a drama about Mormon fundamentalists, who was raised in the Mormon faith?
  

• World Trade Organisation (Director-General Pascal Lamy pictured) trade talks in Geneva collapse after disagreements between developed and developing nations over access to agricultural markets.
• The International Olympic Committee lifts the ban imposed five days earlier on Iraq's team, allowing them to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
• King George Tupou V of Tonga relinquishes many of his powers, ending centuries of absolute monarchy.
• Two bombs explode in Istanbul, Turkey, killing at least seventeen and injuring more than 150.
• In cycling, Carlos Sastre of Spain wins the 2008 Tour de France.
• A series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, India, kills at least forty-five people and injures over one hundred, one day after a similar attack in Bangalore.
• Kapiliele Faupala is crowned the new King of Wallis (Uvea), succeeding the late Tomasi Kulimoetoke II in Wallis and Futuna.

July 30: Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980)

• 1756 – Architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace (pictured), a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces failed to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia.
• 1930 – Uruguay defeated Argentina, 4–2, in front of their home crowd at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo to win the first Football World Cup.
• 2003 – The last old-style Beetle, the economy car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico.
• 2006 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the South Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.

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