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It happened on a… July 30

2020

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

2003

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

1991

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

1990

The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.

1984

Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV.

1974

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

1962

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

1932

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.

1930

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.

1909

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

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