On this day - July 30

In 1966, in the first televised World Cup soccer match, host-nation England beats Germany 4 - 2 to win the tournament final at Wembley Stadium.

Born today; Henry Ford (1863-1947) the American motor car manufacturer; Daley Thompson (1958- ) the Olympic decathlon gold medallist and Emily Jane Bronte (1818-48), the English novelist and poet especially remembered for her novel 'Wuthering Heights'.

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