Today July 30th in history click read more below to view detail events, deaths, births, Holidays and observances, and video clips in hisotry. Please comments, last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague.
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.
1629 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people.
1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756 – 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, Mexico.
1825 – Malden Island is discovered.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
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 at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1866 – New Orleans s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield s boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football 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 (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.
1953 – Rikidozan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 – Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
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.
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.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module 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.
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.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.
1990 – The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1997 – Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
2002 – The accounting law referred to as The Sarbanes Oxley Act is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2003 – In Mexico, the last old style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006 – 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.
Births
1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, author 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 musician (d. 1829)
1763 – Samuel Rogers, English author (d. 1855)
1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
1818 – Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
1825 – Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (d. 1893)
1855 – Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
1859 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
1863 – Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1872 – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
1881 – Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
1885 – John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (d. 1939)
1889 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982)
1890 – Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
1893 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (d. 1967)
1895 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
1899 – Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
1901 – Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
1904 – Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993)
1910 – Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
1914 – Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
1916 – Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
1919 – Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1921 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
1922 – Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1925 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
1925 – Jacques Sernas, French actor
1926 – Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1927 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
1928 – Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
1928 – Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1929 – Sid Krofft, Canadian children s television producer
1933 – Edd Byrnes, American actor
1934 – Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
1935 – Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)
1936 – Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician
1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1939 – Eleanor Smeal, American feminist
1940 – Pat Schroeder, American politician
1940 – Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
1943 – Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist
1945 – David Sanborn, American saxophonist
1946 – Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
1947 – William Atherton, American actor
1947 – Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (d. 1998)
1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California
1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
1949 – Duck Baker, American guitarist
1950 – Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
1951 – Alan Kourie, former South African cricketer
1954 – Ken Olin, American actor
1956 – Delta Burke, American actress
1956 – Soraida Martinez, American Painter, Creator of Verdadism.
1956 – Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 – Anita Hill, American author
1957 – Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
1957 – Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned)
1958 – Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter
1958 – Neal McCoy, American singer/songwriter and humanitarian
1958 – Daley Thompson, English decathlete
1960 – Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American actor
1962 – Alton Brown, American television host and chef
1962 – Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player
1964 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
1965 – Tim Munton, Former England cricketer
1966 – Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player, (Brisbane Broncos & Warrington Wolves)
1968 – Terry Crews, American football player and actor
1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete
1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor
1969 – Errol Stewart, Former South Afrivan cricketer and lawyer
1970 – Christopher Nolan, English film director
1971 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
1971 – Christine Taylor, American actress
1971 – Sagi Kalev, Bodybuilder
1973 – Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress
1974 – Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
1974 – Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
1974 – Sandra Diaz-Twine, Winner of Survivor: Pearl Islands
1975 – Graham Nicholls, English artist
1975 – Cherie Priest, American writer
1977 – Jaime Pressly, American actress
1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
1978 – James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant
1979 – Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
1979 – Show Luo, Taiwanese Singer,Host, Dancer and Actor
1979 – Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
1980 – James Anderson, English cricketer
1980 – Justin Rose, British golfer
1980 – Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
1980 – Chuck Thomas, British TV producer / presenter
1981 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
1981 – Juan Smith, South African rugby player
1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
1983 – Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
1984 – Gabrielle Christian, American actress
1984 – Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
1985 – Alex Goligoski, American ice hockey player
1985 – Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
2002 – Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal
Deaths
578 – Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa
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)
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)
1718 – William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1771 – Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (b. 1716)
1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1875 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1889 – Charlie Absolom, Former England cricketer (b. 1846)
1898 – Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (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)
1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
1947 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
1965 – Jun ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1970 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
1971 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901)
1982 – Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
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)
1992 – Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
1992 – Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
1996 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
1997 – B?o Ð?i, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
1998 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2003 – Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
2004 – Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979)
2005 – Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
2005 – John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
2005 – Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
2006 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
2006 – Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
2006 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2007 – Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
2007 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (b. 1931)
2008 – Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)
Holidays and observances
Vanuatu – Independence Day (formerly Anglo-French condominium of the New Hebrides).
