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July 30th, 2007 (July 30 2007) | Event | John Brumby becomes Premier of Victoria following the resignation of Steve Bracks. | |
July 30th, 2007 (July 30 2007) | Death | Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (born in 1912) | |
July 30th, 2007 (July 30 2007) | Death | Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (born in 1915) | |
July 30th, 2007 (July 30 2007) | Death | Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (born in 1918) | Ingmar Bergman Quotes |
July 30th, 2007 (July 30 2007) | Death | Bill Walsh, American football coach (born in 1931) | |
July 30th, 2006 (July 30 2006) | Event | World s longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years. | |
July 30th, 2006 (July 30 2006) | Event | At least 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre. | |
July 30th, 2006 (July 30 2006) | Death | Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (born in 1904) | |
July 30th, 2006 (July 30 2006) | Death | Al Balding, Canadian golfer (born in 1924) | |
July 30th, 2006 (July 30 2006) | Death | Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (born in 1921) | Al Murray Quotes |
July 30th, 2005 (July 30 2005) | Death | Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (born in 1905) | |
July 30th, 2005 (July 30 2005) | Death | John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (born in 1945) | |
July 30th, 2005 (July 30 2005) | Death | Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (born in 1987) | |
July 30th, 2004 (July 30 2004) | Death | Andre Noble, Canadian actor (born in 1979) | |
July 30th, 2003 (July 30 2003) | Event | In Mexico, the last old style Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. | |
July 30th, 2003 (July 30 2003) | Death | Sam Phillips, American record producer (born in 1923) | |
July 30th, 2002 (July 30 2002) | Event | The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush. | George W. Bush Quotes |
July 30th, 2002 (July 30 2002) | Birth | Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal | |
July 30th, 1998 (July 30 1998) | Death | Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (born in 1917) | |
July 30th, 1997 (July 30 1997) | Event | Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia. | |
July 30th, 1997 (July 30 1997) | Death | B?o D?i, Emperor of Vietnam (born in 1913) | |
July 30th, 1996 (July 30 1996) | Death | Claudette Colbert, American actress (born in 1903) | Claudette Colbert Quotes |
July 30th, 1992 (July 30 1992) | Death | Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (born in 1914) | |
July 30th, 1992 (July 30 1992) | Death | Brenda Marshall, American actress (born in 1915) | |
July 30th, 1990 (July 30 1990) | Event | The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line. | |
July 30th, 1989 (July 30 1989) | Death | Lane Frost, American bull rider (born in 1963) | |
July 30th, 1987 (July 30 1987) | Birth | Elise Estrada, Canadian pop Singer | |
July 30th, 1985 (July 30 1985) | Birth | Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer | |
July 30th, 1985 (July 30 1985) | Death | Julia Hall Bowman Robinson, American mathematician (born in 1919) | |
July 30th, 1984 (July 30 1984) | Birth | Gabrielle Christian, American actress | |
July 30th, 1984 (July 30 1984) | Birth | Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player | |
July 30th, 1983 (July 30 1983) | Birth | Sean Dillon, Irish footballer | |
July 30th, 1983 (July 30 1983) | Death | Howard Dietz, American lyricist (born in 1896) | |
July 30th, 1983 (July 30 1983) | Death | Lynn Fontanne, English actress (born in 1887) | |
July 30th, 1982 (July 30 1982) | Birth | Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress | |
July 30th, 1982 (July 30 1982) | Death | Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (born in 1954) | |
July 30th, 1981 (July 30 1981) | Birth | Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer | |
July 30th, 1981 (July 30 1981) | Birth | Juan Smith, South African rugby player | |
July 30th, 1980 (July 30 1980) | Event | Vanuatu gains independence. | |
July 30th, 1980 (July 30 1980) | Birth | James Anderson, English cricketer | |
July 30th, 1980 (July 30 1980) | Birth | Justin Rose, British golfer | |
July 30th, 1980 (July 30 1980) | Birth | Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player | |
July 30th, 1980 (July 30 1980) | Birth | Chuck Thomas, British TV producer / presenter | Chuck D Quotes |
July 30th, 1979 (July 30 1979) | Birth | Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player | |
July 30th, 1979 (July 30 1979) | Birth | Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer | |
July 30th, 1979 (July 30 1979) | Birth | Show Luo, Taiwanese singer, dancer, host, actor | |
July 30th, 1978 (July 30 1978) | Birth | James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant | |
July 30th, 1977 (July 30 1977) | Birth | Jaime Pressly, American actress | |
July 30th, 1977 (July 30 1977) | Birth | Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets) | |
July 30th, 1975 (July 30 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. | |
July 30th, 1975 (July 30 1975) | Birth | Graham Nicholls, English artist | |
July 30th, 1975 (July 30 1975) | Birth | Cherie Priest, American writer | |
July 30th, 1974 (July 30 1974) | Event | Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court. | |
July 30th, 1974 (July 30 1974) | Birth | Hilary Swank, American actress | |
July 30th, 1974 (July 30 1974) | Birth | Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer | |
July 30th, 1974 (July 30 1974) | Birth | Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player | |
July 30th, 1973 (July 30 1973) | Birth | Markus Naslund, Swedish ice hockey player | |
July 30th, 1973 (July 30 1973) | Birth | Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor | |
July 30th, 1971 (July 30 1971) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo 15 MissionDavid Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon. | |
July 30th, 1971 (July 30 1971) | Event | An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162. | |
July 30th, 1971 (July 30 1971) | Birth | Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor | |
July 30th, 1971 (July 30 1971) | Birth | Christine Taylor, American actress | |
July 30th, 1971 (July 30 1971) | Birth | Sagi Kalev, Bodybuilder | |
July 30th, 1971 (July 30 1971) | Death | Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (born in 1901) | |
July 30th, 1970 (July 30 1970) | Birth | Christopher Nolan, English film director | |
July 30th, 1970 (July 30 1970) | Death | George Szell, Hungarian conductor (born in 1897) | |
July 30th, 1969 (July 30 1969) | Event | 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. | |
July 30th, 1969 (July 30 1969) | Birth | Simon Baker, Australian actor | |
July 30th, 1968 (July 30 1968) | Birth | Terry Crews, American football player and actor | |
July 30th, 1968 (July 30 1968) | Birth | Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete | |
July 30th, 1968 (July 30 1968) | Birth | Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers) | |
July 30th, 1966 (July 30 1966) | Event | England national football team win 1966 FIFA World Cup beating West Germany 4-2 in the Final | |
July 30th, 1966 (July 30 1966) | Birth | Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player, (Brisbane Broncos & Warrington Wolves) | |
July 30th, 1965 (July 30 1965) | Event | US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
July 30th, 1965 (July 30 1965) | Death | Jun ichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (born in 1886) | |
July 30th, 1964 (July 30 1964) | Birth | Vivica A. Fox, American actress | |
July 30th, 1964 (July 30 1964) | Birth | Jurgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager | |
July 30th, 1964 (July 30 1964) | Birth | Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director | |
July 30th, 1963 (July 30 1963) | Birth | Lisa Kudrow, American actress | |
July 30th, 1963 (July 30 1963) | Birth | Chris Mullin, American basketball player | |
July 30th, 1962 (July 30 1962) | Birth | Alton Brown, American television host and chef | Alton Brown Quotes |
July 30th, 1962 (July 30 1962) | Birth | Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive | |
July 30th, 1961 (July 30 1961) | Birth | Laurence Fishburne, American actor | |
July 30th, 1960 (July 30 1960) | Birth | Richard Linklater, American filmmaker | |
July 30th, 1958 (July 30 1958) | Birth | Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter | Kate Bush Quotes |
July 30th, 1958 (July 30 1958) | Birth | Neal McCoy, American singer/songwriter and humanitarian | |
July 30th, 1958 (July 30 1958) | Birth | Daley Thompson, English decathlete | |
July 30th, 1957 (July 30 1957) | Birth | Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager | |
July 30th, 1957 (July 30 1957) | Birth | Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer | |
July 30th, 1957 (July 30 1957) | Birth | Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned) | |
July 30th, 1956 (July 30 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. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
July 30th, 1956 (July 30 1956) | Birth | Delta Burke, American actress | |
July 30th, 1956 (July 30 1956) | Birth | Real Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player | |
July 30th, 1956 (July 30 1956) | Birth | Anita Hill, American author | |
July 30th, 1954 (July 30 1954) | Event | Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer. | Elvis Presley Quotes |
July 30th, 1954 (July 30 1954) | Birth | Ken Olin, American actor | |
July 30th, 1953 (July 30 1953) | Event | Rikidozan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance. | |
July 30th, 1950 (July 30 1950) | Birth | Frank Stallone, American singer and actor | |
July 30th, 1949 (July 30 1949) | Birth | Duck Baker, American guitarist | |
July 30th, 1948 (July 30 1948) | Birth | Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor | |
July 30th, 1947 (July 30 1947) | Birth | William Atherton, American actor | |
July 30th, 1947 (July 30 1947) | Birth | Jonathan Mann, AIDS activist (died in 1998) | |
July 30th, 1947 (July 30 1947) | Birth | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder, and 38th Governor of California | |
July 30th, 1947 (July 30 1947) | Death | Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (born in 1860) | |
July 30th, 1946 (July 30 1946) | Birth | Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (died in 1994) | |
July 30th, 1945 (July 30 1945) | Event | World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen. | |
July 30th, 1945 (July 30 1945) | Birth | Patrick Modiano, French novelist | |
July 30th, 1945 (July 30 1945) | Birth | David Sanborn, American saxophonist | |
July 30th, 1943 (July 30 1943) | Birth | Henri-Francois Gautrin, Quebec politician | |
July 30th, 1941 (July 30 1941) | Birth | Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer | |
July 30th, 1940 (July 30 1940) | Birth | Pat Schroeder, American politician | |
July 30th, 1940 (July 30 1940) | Birth | Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor | |
July 30th, 1939 (July 30 1939) | Birth | Peter Bogdanovich, American film director | |
July 30th, 1939 (July 30 1939) | Birth | Eleanor Smeal, American feminist | |
July 30th, 1938 (July 30 1938) | Birth | Herve de Charette, French politician | |
July 30th, 1936 (July 30 1936) | Birth | Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer | |
July 30th, 1936 (July 30 1936) | Birth | Infanta Pilar of Spain | |
July 30th, 1935 (July 30 1935) | Birth | Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (died in 2001) | |
July 30th, 1934 (July 30 1934) | Birth | Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball | |
July 30th, 1933 (July 30 1933) | Birth | Edd Byrnes, American actor | |
July 30th, 1932 (July 30 1932) | Event | Olympic Games: The Games of the X Olympiad open in Los Angeles, California. | |
July 30th, 1932 (July 30 1932) | Event | Walt Disney s Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres. | Walt Disney Quotes |
July 30th, 1930 (July 30 1930) | Event | In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup. | |
July 30th, 1930 (July 30 1930) | Death | Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (born in 1877) | |
July 30th, 1929 (July 30 1929) | Birth | Sid Krofft, Canadian children s television producer | |
July 30th, 1928 (July 30 1928) | Birth | Eunice Munoz, Portuguese actress | |
July 30th, 1928 (July 30 1928) | Birth | Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (died in 2007) | |
July 30th, 1927 (July 30 1927) | Birth | Victor Wong, American actor (died in 2001) | |
July 30th, 1926 (July 30 1926) | Birth | Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters) | |
July 30th, 1925 (July 30 1925) | Birth | Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (died in 1984) | |
July 30th, 1925 (July 30 1925) | Birth | Jacques Sernas, French actor | |
July 30th, 1922 (July 30 1922) | Birth | Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block | |
July 30th, 1921 (July 30 1921) | Birth | Grant Johannesen, American pianist (died in 2005) | |
July 30th, 1919 (July 30 1919) | Birth | Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe | Marilyn Monroe Quotes |
July 30th, 1918 (July 30 1918) | Death | Joyce Kilmer, American poet (born in 1886) | Joyce Kilmer Quotes |
July 30th, 1916 (July 30 1916) | Birth | Dick Wilson, American actor (died in 2007) | |
July 30th, 1914 (July 30 1914) | Birth | Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (died in 1999) | |
July 30th, 1912 (July 30 1912) | Death | Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (born in 1852) | |
July 30th, 1910 (July 30 1910) | Birth | Edgar de Evia, American photographer (died in 2003) | |
July 30th, 1909 (July 30 1909) | Birth | C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (died in 1993) | |
July 30th, 1904 (July 30 1904) | Birth | Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (died in 1974) | |
July 30th, 1901 (July 30 1901) | Birth | Alfred Lepine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died in 1955) | Alfred Ayer Quotes |
July 30th, 1900 (July 30 1900) | Death | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born in 1844) | |
July 30th, 1899 (July 30 1899) | Birth | Gerald Moore, English pianist (died in 1987) | |
July 30th, 1898 (July 30 1898) | Birth | Henry Moore, English sculptor (died in 1986) | |
July 30th, 1898 (July 30 1898) | Death | Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (born in 1815) | |
July 30th, 1895 (July 30 1895) | Birth | Wanda Hawley, American actress (died in 1963) | |
July 30th, 1893 (July 30 1893) | Birth | Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (died in 1967) | |
July 30th, 1890 (July 30 1890) | Birth | Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (died in 1975) | |
July 30th, 1889 (July 30 1889) | Birth | Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (died in 1982) | |
July 30th, 1881 (July 30 1881) | Birth | Smedley Butler, American Marine general (died in 1940) | Smedley Butler Quotes |
July 30th, 1875 (July 30 1875) | Death | George Pickett, American Confederate general (born in 1825) | |
July 30th, 1872 (July 30 1872) | Birth | Princess Clementine of Belgium (died in 1955) | |
July 30th, 1871 (July 30 1871) | Event | The Staten Island Ferry Westfield s boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. | |
July 30th, 1866 (July 30 1866) | Event | New Orleans s Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. | |
July 30th, 1864 (July 30 1864) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of the CraterUnion forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. | |
July 30th, 1863 (July 30 1863) | Event | 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. | Osho Quotes |
July 30th, 1863 (July 30 1863) | Birth | Henry Ford, American industrialist (died in 1947) | Henry Ford Quotes |
July 30th, 1859 (July 30 1859) | Birth | Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (died in 1939) | |
July 30th, 1857 (July 30 1857) | Birth | Thorstein Veblen, American economist (died in 1929) | |
July 30th, 1855 (July 30 1855) | Birth | Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (died in 1919) | |
July 30th, 1825 (July 30 1825) | Event | Malden Island discovered. | |
July 30th, 1825 (July 30 1825) | Birth | Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (died in 1893) | |
July 30th, 1818 (July 30 1818) | Birth | Emily Bronte, English novelist (died in 1848) | Emily Bronte Quotes |
July 30th, 1811 (July 30 1811) | Event | Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico. | |
July 30th, 1811 (July 30 1811) | Death | Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (born in 1753) | |
July 30th, 1809 (July 30 1809) | Birth | Charles Chiniquy, Quebec-born excommunicated Catholic priest (died in 1899) | |
July 30th, 1771 (July 30 1771) | Death | Thomas Gray, English poet and letter-writer (born in 1716) | Thomas Gray Quotes |
July 30th, 1763 (July 30 1763) | Birth | Samuel Rogers, English author (died in 1855) | |
July 30th, 1756 (July 30 1756) | Event | Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers. | |
July 30th, 1751 (July 30 1751) | Birth | Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (died in 1829) | |
July 30th, 1733 (July 30 1733) | Event | First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States. | |
July 30th, 1729 (July 30 1729) | Event | Baltimore, Maryland is founded. | |
July 30th, 1718 (July 30 1718) | Death | William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (born in 1644) | William Penn Quotes |
July 30th, 1691 (July 30 1691) | Death | Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (born in 1639) | |
July 30th, 1683 (July 30 1683) | Death | Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (born in 1638) | Louis XIV of France Quotes |
July 30th, 1680 (July 30 1680) | Death | Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (born in 1634) | |
July 30th, 1652 (July 30 1652) | Death | Charles Amedee de Savoie, 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier (born in 1624) | |
July 30th, 1641 (July 30 1641) | Birth | Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (died in 1673) | |
July 30th, 1629 (July 30 1629) | Event | An earthquake in Naples, Italy kills 10,000 people. | |
July 30th, 1619 (July 30 1619) | Event | In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. | |
July 30th, 1608 (July 30 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. | |
July 30th, 1550 (July 30 1550) | Death | Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (born in 1505) | |
July 30th, 1549 (July 30 1549) | Birth | Ferdinando I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died in 1609) | |
July 30th, 1540 (July 30 1540) | Death | Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred) | |
July 30th, 1540 (July 30 1540) | Death | Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (born in 1495) | |
July 30th, 1511 (July 30 1511) | Birth | Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (died in 1574) | |
July 30th, 1502 (July 30 1502) | Event | Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
July 30th, 1419 (July 30 1419) | Event | First Defenestration of Prague. | |
July 30th, 0579 (July 30 0579) | Death | Pope Benedict I | |
July 30th, 0578 (July 30 0578) | Death | Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa | |