July 30

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Holidays & Observances Feast of the Throne Day, Independence Day (Vanuatu) Events UFC 201, 1966 FIFA World Cup Final Famous birthdays Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christopher Nolan, Terry Crews, Hilary Swank, Lisa Kudrow

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July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).

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Events

762 – Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.

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.

1608 – At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.

1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first 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 sinks off the coast of 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, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.

1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God we trust as the U.S. national 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 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 Mission: 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.

1974 – Six Canadian Army cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.

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 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to "get dirt" on Dave Winfield.

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 is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

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)

1916 – Dick Wilson, English-American actor (d. 2007)

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

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)

1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)

1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian-American puppeteer and producer

1931 – Dominique Lapierre, French historian and author

1934 – Bud Selig, American businessman

1936 – Buddy Guy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1936 – 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 screenwriter

1939 – Eleanor Smeal, American activist, founded the Feminist Majority Foundation

1940 – Patricia Schroeder, American lawyer and politician

1940 – Clive Sinclair, English businessman, founded Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research

1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

1942 – Pollyanna Pickering, English environmentalist and painter

1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Canadian physicist and politician

1944 – 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 laureate

1945 – 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 producer

1947 – 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 – John Briscoe, South African-American epidemiologist, engineer, and academic (d. 2014)

1948 – Billy Paultz, American basketball player

1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor

1948 – Otis Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1948 – Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 2010)

1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist

1949 – Sonia Proudman, English lawyer and judge

1950 – Harriet Harman, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales

1951 – Alan Kourie, South African cricketer

1951 – Gerry Judah, Indian-English painter and sculptor

1952 – Stephen Blackmore, English botanist and author

1954 – Ken Olin, American actor, director, and producer

1955 – Rat Scabies, English drummer and producer

1955 – Christopher Warren-Green, English violinist and conductor

1956 – Delta Burke, American actress

1956 – 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 cinematographer

1957 – Bill Cartwright, American basketball player and coach

1957 – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager

1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager

1957 – Leon Wesley Walls, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1958 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter and producer

1958 – Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter

1958 – Daley Thompson, English decathlete and trainer

1960 – Jennifer Barnes, American-English musicologist and academic

1960 – Richard Linklater, American director and screenwriter

1960 – Jeff Rudom, American basketball player (d. 2011)

1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor and producer

1962 – Alton Brown, American chef, author, and producer

1962 – Jay Feaster, American ice hockey player and manager

1962 – Yakub Memon, Indian accountant and terrorist (d. 2015)

1963 – Peter Bowler, English-Australian cricketer

1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress and producer

1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player and manager

1964 – Ron Block, American singer-songwriter and banjo player

1964 – 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 cricketer

1966 – Kerry Fox, New Zealand actress and screenwriter

1966 – Craig Gannon, English guitarist and songwriter

1966 – Allan Langer, Australian rugby player and coach

1966 – Louise Wener, English author and singer-songwriter

1968 – Terry Crews, American football player and actor

1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish race walker and coach

1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer and songwriter

1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor, director, and producer

1969 – Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer

1970 – Alun Cairns, Welsh businessman and politician

1970 – Dean Edwards, American comedian, actor, and singer

1970 – Christopher Nolan, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter

1971 – Elvis Crespo, American-Puerto Rican singer

1972 – Jim McIlvaine, American basketball player and sportscaster

1973 – Kenton Cool, English mountaineer

1973 – 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 manager

1974 – Jason Robinson, English rugby player and coach

1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress and producer

1975 – Graham Nicholls, English author and activist

1975 – Kate Starbird, American basketball player and computer scientist

1977 – Diana Bolocco, Chilean model and journalist; Miss Universe 1987

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

1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player and singer

1979 – Chad Keegan, South African cricketer and coach

1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer

1979 – Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist (d. 2012)

1980 – Justin Rose, South African-English golfer

1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer

1981 – Juan Smith, South African rugby player

1981 – Indrek Turi, Estonian decathlete

1982 – Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer

1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress

1982 – James Anderson, English cricketer

1983 – Seán Dillon, Irish footballer

1984 – Marko Asmer, Estonian race car driver

1984 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress and singer

1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player

1985 – Aml Ameen, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer

1985 – Matthew Scott, Australian rugby player

1986 – Tiago Alencar, Brazilian footballer

1986 – William Zillman, Australian rugby player

1987 – Anton Fink, German footballer

1987 – Sam Saunders, American golfer

1989 – Aleix Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer

1989 – Wayne Parnell, South African cricketer

1990 – Eliot Sumner, Italian-English singer-songwriter

1990 – Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer

1991 – Jiyul, South Korean singer

1991 – Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter

1992 – Hannah Cockroft, English wheelchair racer

1993 – Katie Cecil, American singer and guitarist

1993 – Margarida Moura, Portuguese tennis player

1996 – Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player

Deaths

578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Greek bishop

579 – Pope Benedict I

734 – Tatwine, English archbishop (b. 670)

829 – Shi Xiancheng, general of the Tang Dynasty

1286 – Bar Hebraeus, Syrian scholar and historian (b. 1226)

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)

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)

1715 – Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b. 1652)

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)

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)

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 bull rider (b. 1963)

1992 – Brenda Marshall, Filipino-American actress and singer (b. 1915)

1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)

1994 – Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1956)

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. 1940)

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)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Abdon and Sennen

Peter Chrysologus

Robert Barnes (Lutheran)

Ursus of Auxerre

July 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feast of the Throne (Morocco)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Vanuatu from the United Kingdom and France in 1980.

International Day of Friendship (international), and its related observances:

Día del Amigo (Paraguay)

Martyrs Day (South Sudan)

References

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