It happened on a… July 30 - Beinteractivegroup

2020

NASA launches to Mars its Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter aboard a V 541 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagon Beetle rolled off an assembly line.

Heavy metal band Metallica release their single “Enter Sandman”.

The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.

Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV.

Quebec National Assembly passes Bill 22, making French the province’s official language, and setting up la Régie de la Langue Française.

US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon.

The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.

X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, USA.

Walt Disney’s “Flowers and Trees” premiered. It was the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor.

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.

French chemist Eugène Schueller founds L’Oréal with his new range of hair dyes.