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 211^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 17, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,230,560 minutes 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 ‘dihectadecahenagon’ 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 202 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 4,604 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 30 Historical Events

• 1419 –
  First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
• 1756 –
  In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
• 1863 –
  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.
• 1866 –
  New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
• 1930 –
  In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
• 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.
• 1971 –
  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.
• 2006 –
  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.
• 2006 –
  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.

Who were born on July 30?

• 1641 –
  Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
• 1904 –
  Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
• 1933 –
  Edd Byrnes, American actor
• 1936 –
  Ralph Taeger, American actor
• 1939 –
  Eleanor Smeal, American feminist
• 1945 –
  David Sanborn, American saxophonist
• 1956 –
  Anita Hill, American academic, witness at the sexual harassment trial against Clarence Thomas
• 1957 –
  Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
• 1975 –
  Cherie Priest, American writer
• 1981 –
  Juan Smith, South African rugby player

Who died on July 30?

• 579 –
  Pope Benedict I (birth date unknown)
• 1789 –
  Giovanna Bonanno, Italian poisoner and alleged witch (b. c. 1713)
• 1875 –
  George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
• 1889 –
  Charlie Absolom, England cricketer (b. 1846)
• 1900 –
  Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
• 1983 –
  Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
• 1994 –
  Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer (b.1956)
• 1997 –
  Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
• 2003 –
  Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
• 2007 –
  Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)