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July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 154 days remain until the end of the year.
Events 762 – Baghdad is founded.1419 – First Defenestration of Prague : A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.1609 – Beaver Wars : At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York ), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia , the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas , the House of Burgesses , convenes for the first time.1626 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy , kills about 10,000 people.1635 – Eighty Years' War : The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange , begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army .1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw .1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley .1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland .1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts .1756 – In Saint Petersburg , Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla , leader of the Mexican insurgency , is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City , Mexico.1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron .1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin , one of the highest summits in the Alps .1863 – American Indian Wars : Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone ) sign the Treaty of Box Elder .1864 – American Civil War : Battle of the Crater : Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan Crescent City, California , killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.1866 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans , killing 48 people and injuring another 100.1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield' s boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō .1930 – In Montevideo , Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup .1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney 's Flowers and Trees Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.1945 – World War II : Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis , killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower , authorizing In God We Trust motto .1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway , the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid .1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time .1969 – Vietnam War : US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.1971 – Apollo program : Apollo 15 David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover .1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate , Japan killing 162.
1974 – Watergate scandal : U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States .1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan , a suburb of Detroit , at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.1978 – The 730 (transport) , Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side .1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law .
1981 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland .1990 – Ian Gow , Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by IRA terrorists in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.[1] 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line .2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops BBC Two . The show had aired for 42 years.2011 – Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall .2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh , India.2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
2014 – One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India ; 20 are killed.Births 1470 – Hongzhi , emperor of the Ming dynasty (d. 1505)1511 – Giorgio Vasari , Italian painter, historian, and architect (d. 1574)1549 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)1641 – Regnier de Graaf , Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)1751 – Maria Anna Mozart , Austrian pianist (d. 1829)1763 – Samuel Rogers , English poet and art collector (d. 1855)1809 – Charles Chiniquy , Canadian-American priest and theologian (d. 1899)1818 – Emily Brontë , English novelist and poet (d. 1848)1818 – Jan Heemskerk , Dutch lawyer and politician, 16th and 19th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
1825 – Chaim Aronson , Lithuanian engineer and author (d. 1893)1832 – George Lemuel Woods , American lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd Governor of Oregon (d. 1890)1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens , German-Swiss businessman (d. 1919)1857 – Thorstein Veblen , American economist and sociologist (d. 1929)1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn , English minister and humanitarian, founded Lunn Poly (d. 1939)1862 – Nikolai Yudenich , Russian general (d. 1933)1863 – Henry Ford , American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (d. 1947)1872 – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)1881 – Smedley Butler , American general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1940)1890 – Casey Stengel , American baseball player and manager (d. 1975)1893 – Fatima Jinnah , Pakistani dentist and politician (d. 1967)1898 – Henry Moore , English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1986)1899 – Gerald Moore , English pianist (d. 1987)1901 – Alfred Lépine , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)1904 – Salvador Novo , Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1974)1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson , English historian and author (d. 1993)1910 – Edgar de Evia , Mexican-American photographer (d. 2003)1913 – Lou Darvas , American soldier and cartoonist (d. 1987)1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin , Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999)1920 – Walter Schuck , German lieutenant and pilot (d. 2015)1921 – Grant Johannesen , American pianist and educator (d. 2005)1922 – Henry W. Bloch , American banker and businessman, co-founded H&R Block (d. 2019)1925 – Stan Stennett , Welsh actor and trumpet player (d. 2013)1925 – Alexander Trocchi , Scottish author and poet (d. 1984)
1927 – Richard Johnson , English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)1927 – Pete Schoening , American mountaineer (d. 2004)
1927 – Victor Wong , American actor (d. 2001)
1928 – Joe Nuxhall , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)1929 – Sid Krofft , Canadian-American puppeteer and producer1931 – Dominique Lapierre , French historian and author1934 – Bud Selig , 9th Major League Baseball Commissioner 1936 – Buddy Guy , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1936 – Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz
1938 – Hervé de Charette , French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs 1938 – Terry O'Neill , English photographer
1939 – Peter Bogdanovich , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1939 – Eleanor Smeal , American activist, founded the Feminist Majority Foundation
1940 – Patricia Schroeder , American lawyer and politician1940 – Clive Sinclair , English businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research
1941 – Paul Anka , Canadian singer-songwriter and actor1942 – Pollyanna Pickering , English environmentalist and painter (d. 2018)1943 – Henri-François Gautrin , Canadian physicist and politician1944 – Gerry Birrell , Scottish race car driver (d. 1973)1944 – Peter Bottomley , English politician
1944 – Frances de la Tour , English actress
1945 – Patrick Modiano , French novelist and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate1945 – David Sanborn , American saxophonist and composer
1946 – Neil Bonnett , American race car driver and sportscaster (d. 1994)1946 – Jeffrey Hammond , English bass player
1947 – William Atherton , American actor and producer1947 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi , French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 – Jonathan Mann , American physician and author (d. 1998)
1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger , Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California
1948 – Billy Paultz , American basketball player1948 – Jean Reno , Moroccan-French actor
1948 – Otis Taylor , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Julia Tsenova , Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 2010)
1949 – Duck Baker , American guitarist1949 – Sonia Proudman , English lawyer and judge
1950 – Harriet Harman , English lawyer and politician1950 – Frank Stallone , American singer-songwriter and actor
1951 – Alan Kourie , South African cricketer1951 – Gerry Judah , Indian-English painter and sculptor
1952 – Stephen Blackmore , English botanist and author1954 – Ken Olin , American actor, director, and producer1955 – Rat Scabies , English drummer and producer1955 – Christopher Warren-Green , English violinist and conductor
1956 – Delta Burke , American actress1956 – Réal Cloutier , Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Anita Hill , American lawyer and academic
1956 – Soraida Martinez , American painter and educator
1957 – Antonio Adamo , Italian director and cinematographer1957 – Bill Cartwright , American basketball player and coach
1957 – Clint Hurdle , American baseball player and manager
1957 – Nery Pumpido , Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
1958 – Kate Bush , English singer-songwriter and producer1958 – Liz Kershaw , English radio broadcaster1958 – Daley Thompson , English decathlete and trainer
1960 – Jennifer Barnes , American-English musicologist and academic1960 – Richard Linklater , American director and screenwriter
1960 – Brillante Mendoza , Filipino independent film director
1961 – Laurence Fishburne , American actor and producer1962 – Alton Brown , American chef, author, and producer1962 – Jay Feaster , American ice hockey player and manager
1962 – Yakub Memon , Indian accountant and terrorist (d. 2015)
1963 – Peter Bowler , English-Australian cricketer1963 – Lisa Kudrow , American actress and producer
1963 – Antoni Martí , Andorran architect and politician
1963 – Chris Mullin , American basketball player and manager
1964 – Ron Block , American singer-songwriter and banjo player1964 – Vivica A. Fox , American actress
1964 – Alek Keshishian , Lebanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann , German footballer and manager
1964 – Laine Randjärv , Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Culture
1965 – Tim Munton , English cricketer1966 – Kerry Fox , New Zealand actress and screenwriter1966 – Craig Gannon , English guitarist and songwriter
1966 – Allan Langer , Australian rugby league player and coach
1966 – Louise Wener , English author and singer-songwriter
1968 – Terry Crews , American football player and actor1968 – Robert Korzeniowski , Polish race walker and coach
1968 – Sean Moore , Welsh drummer and songwriter
1969 – Simon Baker , Australian actor, director, and producer1969 – Errol Stewart , South African cricketer and lawyer
1970 – Alun Cairns , Welsh businessman and politician1970 – Dean Edwards , American comedian, actor, and singer
1970 – Christopher Nolan , English-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Elvis Crespo , American-Puerto Rican singer1971 – Tom Green , Canadian comedian and actor
1972 – Jim McIlvaine , American basketball player and sportscaster1973 – Kenton Cool , English mountaineer1973 – Ümit Davala , Turkish footballer and manager
1973 – Anastasios Katsabis , Greek footballer
1973 – Markus Näslund , Swedish ice hockey player and manager
1973 – Sonu Nigam , Indian playback singer and actor
1973 – Clementa C. Pinckney , American minister and politician (d. 2015)
1974 – Radostin Kishishev , Bulgarian footballer and manager1974 – Jason Robinson , English rugby league footballer, and rugby union footballer and coach
1974 – Hilary Swank , American actress and producer
1975 – Graham Nicholls , English author and activist1975 – Kate Starbird , American basketball player and computer scientist
1977 – Diana Bolocco , Chilean model and journalist;1977 – Misty May-Treanor , American volleyball player and coach
1977 – Jaime Pressly , American actress
1977 – Bootsy Thornton , American basketball player
1977 – Ian Watkins , Welsh singer-songwriter and child abuse convict
1979 – Carlos Arroyo , Puerto Rican basketball player and singer1979 – Chad Keegan , South African cricketer and coach
1979 – Graeme McDowell , Northern Irish golfer
1979 – Maya Nasser , Syrian journalist (d. 2012)
1980 – Seth Avett , American folk-rock singer-songwriter and musician1980 – Justin Rose , South African-English golfer
1981 – Nicky Hayden , American motorcycle racer (d. 2017)1981 – Juan Smith , South African rugby union footballer
1981 – Hope Solo , American soccer player
1981 – Indrek Turi , Estonian decathlete
1982 – Jehad Al-Hussain , Syrian footballer1982 – James Anderson , English cricketer
1982 – Yvonne Strahovski , Australian actress
1983 – Seán Dillon , Irish footballer1984 – Marko Asmer , Estonian race car driver1984 – Gabrielle Christian , American actress and singer
1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle , American basketball player
1985 – Chris Guccione , Australian tennis player1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm , Norwegian footballer
1985 – Luca Lanotte , Italian ice dancer
1985 – Matthew Scott , Australian rugby league player
1986 – Tiago Alencar , Brazilian footballer1986 – William Zillman , Australian rugby league player
1987 – Anton Fink , German footballer1987 – Sam Saunders , American golfer
1989 – Aleix Espargaró , Spanish motorcycle racer1989 – Wayne Parnell , South African cricketer
1990 – Chris Maxwell , Welsh footballer1991 – Diana Vickers , English singer-songwriter1992 – Hannah Cockroft , English wheelchair racer1993 – Jacob Faria , American baseball player1993 – André Gomes , Portuguese footballer
1993 – Margarida Moura , Portuguese tennis player
1994 – Nelydia Senrose , Malaysian actress1996 – Nina Stojanović , Serbian tennis playerDeaths 578 – Jacob Baradaeus , Greek bishop579 – Pope Benedict I 734 – Tatwine , English archbishop (b. 670)829 – Shi Xiancheng , general of the Tang Dynasty1286 – Bar Hebraeus , Syrian scholar and historian (b. 1226)1393 – Alberto d'Este , Lord of Ferrara and Modena (b. 1347)1516 – Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz (b. 1455)1540 – Thomas Abel , English priest and martyr (b. 1497)1540 – Robert Barnes , English martyr and reformer (b. 1495)
1550 – Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton , English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1505)1566 – Guillaume Rondelet , French doctor (b. 1507)1608 – Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell , last King of Tyrconnell (b. 1575)1624 – Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox , British nobleman (b. 1579)1652 – Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (b. 1624)1680 – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory , Irish admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1634)1683 – Maria Theresa of Spain (b. 1638)1691 – Daniel Georg Morhof , German scholar and academic (b. 1639)1700 – Prince William, Duke of Gloucester , English royal (b. 1689)1718 – William Penn , English businessman and philosopher, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)1771 – Thomas Gray , English poet (b. 1716)1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla , Mexican priest and soldier (b. 1753)1832 – Lê Văn Duyệt , Vietnamese general, mandarin (b. 1763-4)[2] 1870 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje , Norwegian poet and journalist (b. 1818) [3] 1875 – George Pickett , American general (b. 1825)1889 – Charlie Absolom , England cricketer (b. 1846)1898 – Otto von Bismarck , German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1815)1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)1912 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (b. 1852)1918 – Joyce Kilmer , American soldier, journalist, and poet (b. 1886)1920 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman , Swedish executioner (b. 1848)1930 – Joan Gamper , Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, founded FC Barcelona (b. 1877)1938 – John Derbyshire , English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)1941 – Hugo Celmiņš , Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1877)1947 – Joseph Cook , English-Australian miner and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)1965 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Japanese author and playwright (b. 1886)1970 – Walter Murdoch , Scottish-Australian academic (b. 1874)1970 – George Szell , Hungarian-American conductor and composer (b. 1897)
1971 – Thomas Hollway , Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (b. 1906)1975 – James Blish , American author and critic (b. 1921)1977 – Emory Holloway , American scholar, author, and educator (b. 1885)1983 – Howard Dietz , American songwriter and publicist (b. 1896)1983 – Lynn Fontanne , English actress (b. 1887)
1985 – Julia Robinson , American mathematician and theorist (b. 1919)1989 – Lane Frost , American professional bull rider[4] 1990 – Ian Gow , British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA (b. 1937)[5] 1992 – Brenda Marshall , Filipino-American actress and singer (b. 1915)1992 – Joe Shuster , Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
1996 – Claudette Colbert , French-American actress (b. 1903)1997 – Bảo Đại , Vietnamese emperor (b. 1913)1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith , American television host (b. 1917)2001 – Anton Schwarzkopf , German engineer (b. 1924)2003 – Steve Hislop , Scottish motorcycle racer (b. 1962)2003 – Sam Phillips , American record producer, founded Sun Records (b. 1923)
2005 – Ray Cunningham , American baseball player (b. 1905)2005 – John Garang , Sudanese colonel and politician, 6th President of South Sudan (b. 1945)
2006 – Duygu Asena , Turkish journalist and author(b. 1946)2006 – Al Balding , Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006 – Murray Bookchin , American philosopher and author (b. 1921)
2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini , American accordion player and composer (b. 1904)
2006 – Akbar Mohammadi , Iranian activist (b. 1972)
2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni , Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1912)2007 – Teoctist Arăpașu , Romanian patriarch (b. 1915)
2007 – Ingmar Bergman , Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
2007 – Bill Walsh , American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2008 – Anne Armstrong , American businesswoman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1927)2009 – Mohammed Yusuf , Nigerian militant leader, founded Boko Haram (b. 1970)2009 – Peter Zadek , German director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2011 – Bob Peterson , American basketball player (b. 1932)2012 – Maeve Binchy , Irish author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1939)2012 – Bill Doss , American singer and guitarist (b. 1968)
2012 – Stig Ossian Ericson , Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2012 – Les Green , English footballer and manager (b. 1941)
2012 – Jonathan Hardy , New Zealand-Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
2012 – Bill Kitchen , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
2012 – Mary Louise Rasmuson , American colonel (b. 1911)
2013 – Cecil Alexander , American architect, designed the State of Georgia Building (b. 1918)2013 – Berthold Beitz , German businessman (b. 1913)
2013 – Robert Neelly Bellah , American sociologist and author (b. 1927)
2013 – Harry F. Byrd Jr. , American lieutenant, publisher, and politician (b. 1914)
2013 – Antoni Ramallets , Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1924)
2013 – Ossie Schectman , American basketball player (b. 1919)
2013 – Benjamin Walker , Indian-English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913)
2014 – Robert Drew , American director and producer (b. 1924)2014 – Harun Farocki , German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)
2014 – Julio Grondona , Argentinian businessman (b. 1931)
2014 – Peter Hall , English geographer, author, and academic (b. 1932)
2014 – Dick Smith , American make-up artist (b. 1922)
2014 – Dick Wagner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
2015 – Lynn Anderson , American singer (b. 1947)2015 – Endel Lippmaa , Estonian physicist (b. 1930)
2015 – Francis Paul Prucha , American historian and academic (b. 1921)
2015 – Alena Vrzáňová , Czech figure skater (b. 1931)
2016 – Gloria DeHaven , American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)2018 – Michael A. Sheehan , American author, former government official and military officer (b. 1955)[6] Holidays and observances References External links
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