On this day: July 30

POSTED: 11:29 PM PDT Jul 28, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 29, 2012 

A breakfast classic is invented, the host nation captures the very first World Cup, Hoffa goes missing and one of Hollywood's major power couples splits up, all on this day.

OTD July 30 - House of Burgesses
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1619: In Jamestown, Va., the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. The assembly is seen in this 1851 painting by Peter F. Rothermel being addressed by Patrick Henry.

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