It happened on a… July 30

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.

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.

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

X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, USA.

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.

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