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 211th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 17, 2022 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 460,872 hours 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.
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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 176 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 3,508 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 30 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1866 –New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
- 1945 –World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
- 1965 –U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
- 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.
- 1974 –Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
- 1974 –Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
- 1975 –The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
- 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?
- 1825 –Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor, academic and memoirs writer (d. 1893)
- 1910 –Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
- 1934 –Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
- 1936 –Ralph Taeger, American actor
- 1946 –Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
- 1965 –Tim Munton, England cricketer
- 1968 –Robert Korzeniowski, Polish racewalker
- 1973 –Anastasios Katsabis, Greek footballer
- 1980 –Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
- 1982 –Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
Who died on July 30?
- 1540 –Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred) (b. c. 1497)
- 1875 –George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
- 1918 –Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
- 1970 –Sir Walter Murdoch, Australian academic and essayist (b. 1874)
- 1982 –Roberta Pedon, American glamour model (b. 1954)
- 1983 –Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
- 1994 –Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer (b.1956)
- 1996 –Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1998 –Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
- 2006 –Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
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