July 30
is the 211th day (212th in
leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining.
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1419 - First
Defenestration of Prague.
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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.
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1619 - In
Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the
Americas, the
House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
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1629 - An earthquake in
Naples,
Italy kills 10,000 people.
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1729 -
Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
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1733 - First
Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the
United States.
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1756 -
Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built
Catherine Palace to
Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
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1825 -
Malden Island discovered.
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1863 -
Indian Wars:
Chief Pocatello of the
Shoshone tribe signs the
Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern
Idaho and northern
Utah.
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1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of the Crater -
Union forces attempt to break
Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
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1930 - In
Montevideo,
Uruguay win the first
Football World Cup.
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1932 -
Olympic Games: The
Games of the X Olympiad open in
Los Angeles, California.
*1932 -
Walt Disney's
Flowers and Trees, the first
Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use
Technicolor, premieres.
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1945 -
World War II:
Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the
USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.
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1953 -
Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the
Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
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1954 -
Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
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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.
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1965 -
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing
Medicare and
Medicaid.
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1966 - At
Wembley Stadium, host
England wins the
Football World Cup, After drawing 2-2 at the end of 90 minutes,
England beat
West Germany 4 to 2.
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1969 -
Vietnam War:
US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to
South Vietnam and meets with
President Nguyen Van Thieu and with
U.S. military commanders.
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1970 -
Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
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1971 -
Project Apollo:
Apollo 15 Mission -
David Scott and
James Irwin on
Lunar module,
Falcon, land with first
Lunar Rover on the
moon.
*1971 - An
All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a
Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over
Morioka,
Japan killing 162.
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1974 -
Watergate Scandal:
US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed
White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the
United States Supreme Court.
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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.
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1980 -
Vanuatu gains independence.
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1990 - The first
Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
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1997 - A double suicide bombing kills 14 people in
Jerusalem,
Israel.
*1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the
Thredbo Landslide in
New South Wales,
Australia.
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2002 -
Los Angeles Sparks center
Lisa Leslie became the first woman to dunk in a
WNBA league basketball game.
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2002 - The
accounting law referred to as
"The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was
signed into
law by
United States President George W. Bush.
*
2003 - In
Mexico, the last 'old style'
Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the
assembly line.
*2003 - 490,000
Rock Fans attend
Sarsfest concert at
Downsview park in
Toronto,
Canada, Headlined by
The Rolling Stones,
AC/DC Rush,
The Tea Party, and 12 other major rock acts.
*
2004 - A gas explosion kills 16 people in
Belgium.
*
2006 - World's longest running music show
Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on
BBC Two. The show has aired for 42 years.
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1470 -
Hongzhi,
Emperor of China (d.
1505)
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1511 -
Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (d.
1574)
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1549 -
Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.
1609)
*
1641 -
Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d.
1673)
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1763 -
Samuel Rogers, English author (d.
1855)
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1818 -
Emily Brontë, English novelist (d.
1848)
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1855 -
Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d.
1919)
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1857 -
Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d.
1929)
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1859 -
Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d.
1939)
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1863 -
Henry Ford, American industrialist (d.
1947)
*
1889 -
Franz Masereel, Belgian painter (d.
1972)
* 1889 -
Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d.
1982)
*
1890 -
Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d.
1975)
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1893 -
Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani
Mother of the Nation (d.
1967)
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1895 -
Wanda Hawley, American actress (d.
1963)
*
1898 -
Henry Moore, English sculptor (d.
1986)
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1904 -
Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d.
1974)
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1909 -
C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian (d.
1993)
*
1910 -
Edgar de Evia, American mountain climber (d.
2003)
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1914 -
Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (d.
1999)
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1916 -
Dick Wilson, American actor
*
1919 -
Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of
Marilyn Monroe.
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1921 -
Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d.
2005)
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1926 -
Christine McGuire, American singer (
The McGuire Sisters)
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1930 -
Thomas Sowell, American economist
*
1933 -
Edward Byrnes, American actor
*
1934 -
Bud Selig, baseball commissioner
*
1936 -
Buddy Guy, American guitarist and singer
*
1938 -
Hervé de Charette, French politician
*
1939 -
Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
*
1940 -
Pat Schroeder, American politican
*
1940 -
Clive Sinclair, British entrepreneur
*
1941 -
Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
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1945 -
David Sanborn, American musician
*
1946 -
Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d.
1994)
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1947 -
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born actor
* 1947 -
William Atherton, American actor
*
1948 -
Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
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1950 -
Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
*
1956 -
Delta Burke, American actress
* 1956 -
Anita Hill, American author
* 1956 -
Réal Cloutier, professional ice hockey player
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1957 -
Nery Pumpido, Argentine football goalkeeper
* 1957 -
Rat Scabies, British musician
* 1957 -
Clint Hurdle, baseball player and manager
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1958 -
Kate Bush, British musician
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1958 -
Daley Thompson, English decathlete
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1960 -
Richard Linklater, American director
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1961 -
Laurence Fishburne, American actor
*
1962 -
Alton Brown, American television host and chef
*
1963 -
Lisa Kudrow, American actress
*
1964 -
Vivica A. Fox, American actress
* 1964 -
Jürgen Klinsmann, German football manager
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1968 -
Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
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1969 -
Simon Baker, American actor
*
1970 -
Christopher Nolan, British film director
*
1971 -
Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
* 1971 -
Christine Taylor, American actress
*
1973 -
Markus Naslund, Swedish icehockey player
* 1973 -
Sonu Nigam, Indian Singer/Actor
*
1974 -
Hilary Swank, American actress
* 1974 -
Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
*
1975 -
Graham Nicholls, British artist
*
1977 -
Jaime Pressly, American Actress
*
1979 -
Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
*
1981 -
Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
*
1984 -
Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
*
1985 -
Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
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578 -
Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
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579 -
Pope Benedict I *
1540 -
Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
* 1540 -
Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b.
1495)
*
1550 -
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b.
1505)
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1652 -
Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (b.
1624)
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1680 -
Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b.
1634)
*
1683 -
Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of
Louis XIV of France (b.
1638)
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1691 -
Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b.
1639)
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1715 -
Nahum Tate, Irish poet (b.
1652)
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1718 -
William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b.
1644)
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1771 -
Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b.
1716)
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1875 -
George Pickett, American Confederate general (b.
1825)
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1898 -
Otto von Bismarck, 1st
Chancellor of the
German Empire (b.
1815)
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1900 -
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b.
1844)
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1912 -
Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b.
1852)
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1918 -
Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b.
1886)
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1947 -
Joseph Cook, 6th
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1860)
*
1970 -
George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b.
1897)
*
1971 -
Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b.
1901)
*
1983 -
Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b.
1896)
* 1983 -
Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b.
1887)
*
1985 -
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (b.
1919)
*
1989 -
Lane Frost, American bull rider (b.
1963)
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1992 -
Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b.
1914)
* 1992 -
Brenda Marshall, American actress (b.
1915)
*
1996 -
Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b.
1903)
*
1997 -
Bao Dai,
Emperor of Vietnam (b.
1913)
*
2003 -
Sam Phillips, American record producer (b.
1923)
*
2005 -
John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b.
1945)
* 2005 -
Anthony Walker, hate crime murder victim (b.
1987)
* 2005 -
Ray Cunningham, baseball player (b.
1905)
*
2006 -
Al Balding, Canadian professional golfer (b.
1924)
* 2006 -
Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b.
1921)
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Vanuatu -
Independence Day.
*
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 3 saints:
**St.
Abdon**St.
Sennen**St.
Julitta (a
martyr)
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BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
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