What are the important events that happened on July 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 30: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 30 is the 212th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 17, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,722,297,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecadigon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 183 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,239 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 30 Historical Events
- 762 –Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
- 1419 –First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
- 1502 –Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
- 1656 –Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
- 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.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
- 1971 –An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
- 1974 –Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
- 1980 –Israel’s Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
Who were born on July 30?
- 1549 –Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
- 1855 –Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
- 1940 –Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
- 1947 –Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and politician, 38th Governor of California
- 1948 –Otis Taylor, American musician
- 1950 –Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
- 1971 –Elvis Crespo, Puerto Rican singer
- 1977 –Diana Bolocco, Chilean television presenter
- 1986 –Tiago, Brazilian footballer
- 1987 –Anton Fink, German footballer
Who died on July 30?
- 1540 –Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
- 1691 –Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639)
- 1718 –William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- 1900 –Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
- 1930 –Joan Gamper, Swiss-born Spanish football pioneer, businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
- 1965 –Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese novelist (b. 1886)
- 1994 –Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer (b.1956)
- 1996 –Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
- 2005 –Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
- 2007 –Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)
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