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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of July 0762 | EVENT | Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur. |
| 30th of July 1419 | EVENT | First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. |
| 30th of July 1502 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. |
| 30th of July 1608 | EVENT | 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. |
| 30th of July 1619 | EVENT | In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. |
| 30th of July 1629 | EVENT | An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people. |
| 30th of July 1729 | EVENT | Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 30th of July 1733 | EVENT | The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts. |
| 30th of July 1756 | EVENT | In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers. |
| 30th of July 1811 | EVENT | Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico. |
| 30th of July 1825 | EVENT | Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron. |
| 30th of July 1859 | EVENT | First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps. |
| 30th of July 1863 | EVENT | Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah. |
| 30th of July 1864 | EVENT | 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. |
| 30th of July 1865 | EVENT | 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. |
| 30th of July 1866 | EVENT | New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. |
| 30th of July 1871 | EVENT | The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. |
| 30th of July 1916 | EVENT | Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey. |
| 30th of July 1930 | EVENT | In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup. |
| 30th of July 1932 | EVENT | Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. |
| 30th of July 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. |
| 30th of July 1956 | EVENT | 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. |
| 30th of July 1965 | EVENT | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. |
| 30th of July 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and U.S. military commanders. |
| 30th of July 1971 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission : David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. |
| 30th of July 1971 | EVENT | An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162. |
| 30th of July 1974 | EVENT | Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court. |
| 30th of July 1974 | EVENT | Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp. |
| 30th of July 1975 | EVENT | 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, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982. |
| 30th of July 1975 | EVENT | The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings). |
| 30th of July 1978 | EVENT | The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side. |
| 30th of July 1980 | EVENT | Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law |
| 30th of July 1980 | EVENT | Vanuatu gains independence. |
| 30th of July 2003 | EVENT | In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. |
| 30th of July 2006 | EVENT | Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets. |
| 30th of July 2006 | EVENT | 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. |
| 30th of July 1511 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, biographer, art historian and architect (d. 1574) |
| 30th of July 1549 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609) |
| 30th of July 1641 | BIRTHDAY | Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673) |
| 30th of July 1751 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829) |
| 30th of July 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Rogers, English poet (d. 1855) |
| 30th of July 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Chiniquy, Quebec excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899) |
| 30th of July 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Bronte, English novelist (d. 1848) |
| 30th of July 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Heemskerk, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897) |
| 30th of July 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor, academic and memoirs writer (d. 1893) |
| 30th of July 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919) |
| 30th of July 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929) |
| 30th of July 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939) |
| 30th of July 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947) |
| 30th of July 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Clementine of Belgium (d. 1955) |
| 30th of July 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940) |
| 30th of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982) |
| 30th of July 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975) |
| 30th of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political activist, sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and "Mother of the Nation" (d. 1967) |
| 30th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963) |
| 30th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986) |
| 30th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987) |
| 30th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Lepine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955) |
| 30th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974) |
| 30th of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Magda Schneider German actress (d. 1996). |
| 30th of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993) |
| 30th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003) |
| 30th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999) |
| 30th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 30th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe |
| 30th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005) |
| 30th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block |
| 30th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984) |
| 30th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Sernas, French actor |
| 30th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters) |
| 30th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004) |
| 30th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001) |
| 30th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007) |
| 30th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Eunice Munoz, Portuguese actress |
| 30th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer |
| 30th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Edd Byrnes, American actor |
| 30th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball |
| 30th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer |
| 30th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Taeger, American actor |
| 30th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Infanta Pilar of Spain |
| 30th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Herve de Charette, French politician |
| 30th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Eleanor Smeal, American feminist |
| 30th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Bogdanovich, American film director |
| 30th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor |
| 30th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Schroeder, American politician |
| 30th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer |
| 30th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Henri-Francois Gautrin, Quebec politician |
| 30th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Modiano, French novelist |
| 30th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | David Sanborn, American saxophonist |
| 30th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994) |
| 30th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | William Atherton, American actor |
| 30th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Mann, American AIDS activist (d. 1998) |
| 30th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and politician, 38th Governor of California |
| 30th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor |
| 30th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Taylor, American musician |
| 30th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and pianist (d. 2010) |
| 30th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Duck Baker, American guitarist |
| 30th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Stallone, American singer and actor |
| 30th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Kourie, South African cricketer |
| 30th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Olin, American actor |
| 30th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Delta Burke, American actress |
| 30th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Real Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 30th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Hill, American academic, witness at the sexual harassment trial against Clarence Thomas |
| 30th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Soraida Martinez, American painter, creator of Verdadism |
| 30th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer |
| 30th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Cartwright, American basketball player |
| 30th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager |
| 30th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned) |
| 30th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter |
| 30th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter and humanitarian |
| 30th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Daley Thompson, English decathlete |
| 30th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Linklater, American filmmaker |
| 30th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Fishburne, American actor |
| 30th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Alton Brown, American television host and chef |
| 30th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive |
| 30th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Kudrow, American actress |
| 30th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Mullin, American basketball player |
| 30th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director |
| 30th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Vivica A. Fox, American actress |
| 30th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager |
| 30th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Munton, England cricketer |
| 30th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player |
| 30th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Crews, American football player and actor |
| 30th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers) |
| 30th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Korzeniowski, Polish racewalker |
| 30th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Baker, Australian actor |
| 30th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer |
| 30th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Nolan, English film director |
| 30th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Edwards, American comedian |
| 30th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Elvis Crespo, Puerto Rican singer |
| 30th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor |
| 30th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Taylor, American actress |
| 30th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sagi Kalev, Israeli-born American bodybuilder |
| 30th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Naslund, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 30th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sonu Nigam, Indian singer and actor |
| 30th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Diaz-Twine, American winner of Survivor: Pearl Islands and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villians |
| 30th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Hilary Swank, American actress |
| 30th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player |
| 30th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer |
| 30th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Nicholls, English author and artist |
| 30th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cherie Priest, American writer |
| 30th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Bolocco, Chilean television presenter |
| 30th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Pressly, American actress |
| 30th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant (The Amazing Race) |
| 30th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets) |
| 30th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player |
| 30th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Show Luo, Taiwanese singer, television host, dancer and actor |
| 30th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer |
| 30th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player |
| 30th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Rose, British golfer |
| 30th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Thomas, British TV producer and presenter |
| 30th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer |
| 30th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Smith, South African rugby player |
| 30th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | James Anderson, English cricketer |
| 30th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress |
| 30th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer |
| 30th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Dillon, Irish footballer |
| 30th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Christian, American actress |
| 30th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player |
| 30th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer |
| 30th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tiago, Brazilian footballer |
| 30th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Coco Sumner, Italy-born English singer-songwriter and guitarist, daughter of Sting |
| 30th of July 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Vickers, English singer and stage actress |
| 30th of July 1999 | BIRTHDAY | Joey King, American actress |
| 30th of July 2002 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal |
| 30th of July 0578 | DEATH | Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa (birth date unknown) |
| 30th of July 0579 | DEATH | Pope Benedict I (birth date unknown) |
| 30th of July 1540 | DEATH | Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (Born 1495) |
| 30th of July 1540 | DEATH | Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred) (Born c. 1497) |
| 30th of July 1550 | DEATH | Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (Born 1505) |
| 30th of July 1652 | DEATH | Charles Amedee de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (Born 1624) |
| 30th of July 1680 | DEATH | Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (Born 1634) |
| 30th of July 1683 | DEATH | Maria Theresa of Spain, Spanish-born Queen consort of France, wife of Louis XIV of France (Born 1638) |
| 30th of July 1691 | DEATH | Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (Born 1639) |
| 30th of July 1718 | DEATH | William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (Born 1644) |
| 30th of July 1771 | DEATH | Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (Born 1716) |
| 30th of July 1789 | DEATH | Giovanna Bonanno, Italian poisoner and alleged witch (Born c. 1713) |
| 30th of July 1811 | DEATH | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (Born 1753) |
| 30th of July 1875 | DEATH | George Pickett, American Confederate general (Born 1825) |
| 30th of July 1889 | DEATH | Charlie Absolom, England cricketer (Born 1846) |
| 30th of July 1898 | DEATH | Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (Born 1815) |
| 30th of July 1900 | DEATH | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Born 1844) |
| 30th of July 1912 | DEATH | Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (Born 1852) |
| 30th of July 1918 | DEATH | Joyce Kilmer, American poet (Born 1886) |
| 30th of July 1920 | DEATH | Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (Born 1848) |
| 30th of July 1930 | DEATH | Joan Gamper, Swiss-born Spanish football pioneer, businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (Born 1877) |
| 30th of July 1947 | DEATH | Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1860) |
| 30th of July 1965 | DEATH | Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (Born 1886) |
| 30th of July 1970 | DEATH | George Szell, Hungarian conductor (Born 1897) |
| 30th of July 1982 | DEATH | Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (Born 1954) |
| 30th of July 1983 | DEATH | Howard Dietz, American lyricist (Born 1896) |
| 30th of July 1983 | DEATH | Lynn Fontanne, English actress (Born 1887) |
| 30th of July 1985 | DEATH | Julia Robinson, American mathematician (Born 1919) |
| 30th of July 1989 | DEATH | Lane Frost, American bull rider (Born 1963) |
| 30th of July 1992 | DEATH | Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (Born 1914) |
| 30th of July 1992 | DEATH | Brenda Marshall, American actress (Born 1915) |
| 30th of July 1994 | DEATH | Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer (Born1956) |
| 30th of July 1996 | DEATH | Claudette Colbert, American actress (Born 1903) |
| 30th of July 1997 | DEATH | Bao ?ai, Emperor of Vietnam (Born 1913) |
| 30th of July 1998 | DEATH | Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (Born 1917) |
| 30th of July 1998 | DEATH | Jorge Russek, Mexican actor (Born 1932) |
| 30th of July 2001 | DEATH | Anton Schwarzkopf, German amusement ride engineer (Born 1924) |
| 30th of July 2003 | DEATH | Sam Phillips, American record producer (Born 1923) |
| 30th of July 2004 | DEATH | Andre Noble, Canadian actor (Born 1979) |
| 30th of July 2005 | DEATH | Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (Born 1905) |
| 30th of July 2005 | DEATH | Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (Born 1987) |
| 30th of July 2005 | DEATH | John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (Born 1945) |
| 30th of July 2006 | DEATH | Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (Born 1904) |
| 30th of July 2006 | DEATH | Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (Born 1921) |
| 30th of July 2006 | DEATH | Al Balding, Canadian golfer (Born 1924) |
| 30th of July 2007 | DEATH | Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (Born 1912) |
| 30th of July 2007 | DEATH | Teoctist, Romanian-born Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (Born 1915) |
| 30th of July 2007 | DEATH | Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (Born 1918) |
| 30th of July 2007 | DEATH | Bill Walsh, American football coach (Born 1931) |
| 30th of July 2008 | DEATH | Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (Born 1927) |
| 30th of July 2009 | DEATH | Peter Zadek, German theatre director (Born 1926) |