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July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years ) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar , with 154 days remaining.
Events
1419 - First Defenestration of Prague .
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 roquois 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.
1629 - An earthquake in Naples , Italy kills 10,000 people.
1729 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1733 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States .
1825 - Malden Island discovered.
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 .
1864 - American Civil War : Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1930 - In Montevideo , Uruguay win the first Football World Cup .
1932 - The 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California .
1945 - World War II : A Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis , killing 883 seamen in the worst single loss in the history of the United States Navy .
1953 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
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 .
1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid .
1966 - At Wembley Stadium , host England wins the Football World Cup , beating Germany 4 to 2.
1969 - Vietnam War : US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders.
1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
1971 - Apollo program : Apollo 15 lands on the Moon .
1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka , Japan killing 162
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 .
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.mw/
1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.
1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
Births
1470 - Hongzhi , Emperor of China (d. 1505 )
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609 )
1641 - Regnier de Graaf , Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673 )
1818 - Emily Brontë , English novelist (d. 1848 )
1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens , German industrialist (d. 1919 )
1857 - Thorstein Veblen , American economist (d. 1929 )
1863 - Henry Ford , American industrialist (d. 1947 )
1889 - Franz Masereel , Belgian painter and graphic artist (d. 1972 )
1889 - Vladimir Zworykin , Russian physicist and inventor (d. 1982 )
1890 - Casey Stengel , baseball player and manager (d. 1975 )
1898 - Henry Moore , English sculptor (d. 1986 )
1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson , British historian and writer (d. 1993 )
1910 - Edgar de Evia , American photographer (d. 2003 )
1914 - Lord Killanin , Irish International Olympic Committee president (d. 1999 )
1916 - Dick Wilson , American actor
1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle , half-sister of Marilyn Monroe .
1921 - Grant Johannesen , American pianist (d. 2005 )
1930 - Thomas Sowell , American economist
1934 - Bud Selig , baseball team owner and commissioner
1936 - Buddy Guy , American guitarist and singer
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich , American film director
1941 - Paul Anka , Canadian singer and composer
1945 - David Sanborn , American musician
1946 - Neil Bonnett , American race car driver (d. 1994 )
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger , Austrian-born actor and Governor of California
1947 - William Atherton , American actor
1948 - Jean Reno , Moroccan-born French actor
1956 - Delta Burke , American actress
1956 - Anita Hill , American author
1958 - Kate Bush , British musician
1960 - Richard Linklater , American director
1961 - Laurence Fishburne , American actor
1962 - Alton Brown , American television host
1963 - Lisa Kudrow , American actress
1964 - Vivica A. Fox , American actress
1968 - Robert Korzeniowski , Polish athlete
1970 - Christopher Nolan , British film director
1971 - Tom Green , Canadian comedian and actor
1971 - Christine Taylor , American actress
1974 - Hilary Swank , American actress
1975 - Graham Nicholls , British artist
1981 - Nicky Hayden , American motorcycle racer
1985 - Daniel Fredheim Holm , Norwegian footballer
Deaths
578 - Jacob Baradaeus , Bishop of Edessa
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 )
1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours , French soldier (b. 1624 )
1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory , Irish naval commander (b. 1634 )
1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain , queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638 )
1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof , German writer and scholar (b. 1639 )
1715 - Nahum Tate , Irish poet (b. 1652 )
1718 - William Penn , English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644 )
1771 - Thomas Gray , English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716 )
1875 - George Pickett , American Confederate general (b. 1825 )
1898 - Otto von Bismarck , German chancellor (b. 1815 )
1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844 )
1912 - Emperor Meiji , Japanese emperor (b. 1852
1918 - Joyce Kilmer , American poet (b. 1886 )
1947 - Joseph Cook , sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860 )
1971 - Kenneth Slessor , Australian poet (b. 1901 )
1983 - Lynn Fontanne , English actress (b. 1887 )
1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson , American mathematician (b. 1919 )
1989 - Lane Frost , American bull rider (b. 1963 )
1996 - Claudette Colbert , French-American actress (b. 1903 )
1997 - Bao Dai , Emperor of Vietnam
2003 - Sam Phillips , American record producer (b. 1923 )
2005 - John Garang , rebel leader and Vice President of Sudan (helicopter crash) (b. 1945 )
Holidays and observances
External links
July 29 - July 31 - June 30 - August 30 -- listing of all days
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