Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 July 30

In 1988,

Marina and the Diamonds

• ... that singer
  Marina and the Diamonds (pictured) said she made her producer go through 486 vocal takes for one song on her album The Family Jewels
  ?
• ... that Billie Ert and Antonio Molina, a drag queen and former football star, respectively, in 1972 became the first same-sex couple to be married in Texas?
• ... that Mac n' Cheetos is a Burger King product that is a combination of macaroni and cheese and the Frito-Lay snack Cheetos?
• ... that the Mexican blind brotula, the blind swamp eel, and the juil ciego, all cave-dwelling fish in Mexico, are threatened by water pollution?
• ... that a 1923 book by Progressive Era activist Kate Claghorn has been called "the one significant contemporary study of the immigrant and the American legal system"?
• ... that African CITES delegates sang the former Zimbabwe national anthem "Ishe Komborera Africa" after winning a vote to export African elephant ivory, while conservationists cried?
• ... that race car driver J. R. Heffner is his sponsor's vice president of operations?

Solar Impulse 2

• Solar Impulse 2 (pictured) becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth, completing a 16-month voyage.
• At least 19 people are killed and 26 others are injured in a stabbing incident at a disabled care home in Sagamihara, Japan.
• In cycling, Chris Froome wins his third Tour de France title.
• ISIL suicide bombers attack a peaceful protest in Kabul
  , Afghanistan, killing at least 80 people and injuring 260 others.
• In
  London Grand Prix
  .

July 30: Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980)

NASA orbital photo of Malden Island

• 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, an early leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish authorities.
• 1825 – Malden Island (pictured), now one of Kiribati's Line Islands, was discovered by Captain The 7th Lord Byron.
• 1916 – German agents caused a major explosion when they sabotaged American ammunition supplies in New Jersey to prevent the materiel from being used by the Allies of World War I.
• Royal Question
  .
• South Lebanese village of Qana
  , killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.