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30 July

🇮🇳 In India

1957 Balachandran Chullikkadu, Malayalam poet, orator, lyricist and film actor, was born

2012 A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

2024 At least 231 people are killed, 397 injured and 118 missing following landslides in Wayanad district, Kerala.

🌎 Elsewhere

0762 The city of Baghdad is founded.

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

1921 Insulin was first isolated as a pancreatic extract by the Canadian scientists Sir Frederick G. Banting and Charles H. Best.

1931 Dominique Lapierre, French historian and author was born.

1935 First Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution

1945 The USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine shortly after delivering the internal components of the atomic bombs that were later dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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