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.
- 1619 –In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
- 1629 –An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
- 1811 –Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
- 1825 –Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
- 1866 –New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
- 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.
Who were born on July 30?
- 1898 –Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
- 1916 –Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1925 –Jacques Sernas, French actor
- 1946 –Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
- 1956 –Soraida Martinez, American painter, creator of Verdadism
- 1957 –Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
- 1962 –Alton Brown, American television host and chef
- 1965 –Tim Munton, England cricketer
- 1971 –Christine Taylor, American actress
- 1984 –Gabrielle Christian, American actress
Who died on July 30?
- 1540 –Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
- 1718 –William Penn, English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
- 1811 –Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
- 1947 –Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- 1970 –Sir Walter Murdoch, Australian academic and essayist (b. 1874)
- 1985 –Julia Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
- 1992 –Brenda Marshall, American actress (b. 1915)
- 2001 –Anton Schwarzkopf, German amusement ride engineer (b. 1924)
- 2005 –Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
- 2005 –Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
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