Today in History: A Short Little Note

Today's post will be a little bit short, as I was out the whole day, but tomorrow's post will be a longer post!

40th U.S President,
Ronald Reagan 

The final ball used in
the 1930 World Cup Finals.

With many World Cup news in the past couple of days, I think it would be important to note that the first World Cup was hosted on this day in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1930. Two matches occurred with France defeating Mexico 4-1, and the United States shutting out Belgium 3-0. The first World Cup final was between two of the favored teams to win the World Cup, Argentina and Uruguay. Uruguay ended up defeating Argentina 4-2.

Twenty-eight years ago today in 1985, Ronald Reagan was undergoing surgery in Maryland, trying to remove a benign polyp in his large intestine. During the surgery, doctors found what seemed to be a cancerous colon polyp. Reagan and his wife Nancy agreed to remove the polyp the following week, which proved to be successful  Reagan announced that he was "glad that's all out," and planned to live a long time after the surgery. Reagan lived to 93 years old, dying on June 5th, 2004 of Pneumonia.