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On this day in 1958, the U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),

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July 30 1619:

In Jamestown, Virginia, the House of Burgesses convenes for the first time. It is the first representative assembly in the colonial Americas.

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1502 - Christopher Columbus landed at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

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July 30 1792:

The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise"
by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris.

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1498 - Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, arrived at the island of Trinidad.

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July 31 1777:

The Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman,
was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.

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August 1, 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I.

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August 1 1790:

The first U.S. census was completed, showing a population of nearly 4 million people.

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1936
Adolf Hitler presided over the opening of the Berlin Olympic Games.

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1945 President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee concluded the Potsdam conference

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