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, 1,753,833,600 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 ‘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.
• 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.
• 1811 –
  Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
• 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.
• 1871 –
  The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
• 1967 –
  Israel passes the Jerusalem Law and annexes East Jerusalem.
• 1971 –
  An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
• 1980 –
  Vanuatu gains independence.
• 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?

• 1863 –
  Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
• 1872 –
  Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
• 1947 –
  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and politician, 38th Governor of California
• 1956 –
  Delta Burke, American actress
• 1958 –
  Richard Burgi, American actor
• 1963 –
  Chris Mullin, American basketball player
• 1973 –
  Anastasios Katsabis, Greek footballer
• 1979 –
  Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
• 1982 –
  Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer
• 1985 –
  Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer

Who died on July 30?

• 1811 –
  Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
• 1920 –
  Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (b. 1848)
• 1947 –
  Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
• 1983 –
  Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
• 1992 –
  Joe Shuster, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1914)
• 2005 –
  Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 2006 –
  Al Balding, Canadian golfer (b. 1924)
• 2006 –
  Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
• 2007 –
  Teoctist, Romanian-born Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
• 2009 –
  Peter Zadek, German theatre director (b. 1926)