# What happened on July 30 in history?

**Date:** July 30  
**Events recorded:** 51  
**Years spanned:** 762 – 2025  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/july/30/

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## Featured Event

**2025** — A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Kamchatka_earthquake)

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## Events on this date

- **762** — Baghdad is founded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad))
- **1419** — First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague))
- **1502** — Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus))
- **1609** — Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Wars))
- **1619** — In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown%2C_Virginia))
- **1627** — An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1627_Gargano_earthquake))
- **1635** — Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years'_War))
- **1645** — English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War))
- **1656** — The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_(1656)))
- **1676** — Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Bacon_(Virginia_colonist)))
- **1729** — Founding of Baltimore, Maryland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore))
- **1733** — The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry))
- **1756** — In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg))
- **1811** — Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla))
- **1859** — First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Combin))
- **1863** — American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone)  sign the Treaty of Box Elder. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars))
- **1863** — Valuev Circular banned the publication of religious, educational and training books in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuev_Circular))
- **1864** — American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1865** — The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat))
- **1866** — Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Massacre_of_1866))
- **1871** — The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_Ferry))
- **1912** — Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Meiji))
- **1916** — The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tom_explosion))
- **1930** — In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo))
- **1932** — Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney))
- **1945** — World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1956** — A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_resolution))
- **1962** — The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Highway))
- **1965** — U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson))
- **1966** — England defeats West Germany to win the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium 4–2 after extra time. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_national_football_team))
- **1969** — Vietnam War: U.S. president Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War))
- **1971** — Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program))
- **1971** — An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Nippon_Airways))
- **1974** — Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal))
- **1975** — Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa))
- **1978** — The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/730_(transport)))
- **1980** — Vanuatu gains independence. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu))
- **1980** — Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset))
- **1981** — As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA))
- **1990** — Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gow))
- **2003** — In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle))
- **2003** — Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so-far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenean_ibex))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops))
- **2006** — An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Qana_airstrike))
- **2011** — Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara_Tindall))
- **2012** — A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellore_train_fire))
- **2012** — A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_India_blackouts))
- **2014** — Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Malin_landslide))
- **2020** — NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_2020))
- **2024** — A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Wayanad_landslides))
- **2025** — A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Kamchatka_earthquake))

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## Notable births on July 30

- **1999** — **Joey King** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_King))
- **1996** — **Nina Stojanović** — Serbian tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Stojanovi%C4%87))
- **1996** — **Dylan Larkin** — American hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Larkin))
- **1995** — **Hirving Lozano** — Mexican footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirving_Lozano))
- **1994** — **Nelydia Senrose** — Malaysian actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelydia_Senrose))
- **1993** — **Jacob Faria** — American baseball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Faria))
- **1993** — **André Gomes** — Portuguese footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gomes))
- **1993** — **Margarida Moura** — Portuguese tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarida_Moura))
- **1993** — **Miho Miyazaki** — Japanese singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miho_Miyazaki))
- **1992** — **Hannah Cockroft** — English wheelchair racer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cockroft))

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## Notable deaths on July 30

- **2025** — **David Argue** — Australian actor (born 1959) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Argue))
- **2025** — **George Nigh** — American politician, 17th and 22nd Governor of Oklahoma (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nigh))
- **2024** — **Onyeka Onwenu** — Nigerian singer, actress and politician (born 1952) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyeka_Onwenu))
- **2023** — **Paul Reubens** — American actor and comedian (born 1952) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens))
- **2022** — **Pat Carroll** — American actress and comedian (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Carroll))
- **2022** — **Nichelle Nichols** — American actress, singer and dancer (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichelle_Nichols))
- **2021** — **Shona Ferguson** — Botswana-born, South African actor and executive producer (born 1974) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shona_Ferguson))
- **2020** — **Lee Teng-hui** — Taiwanese politician, President (1988–2000), Vice President (1984–1988) and mayor of Taipei (1978–1981) (born 1923) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Teng-hui))
- **2020** — **Herman Cain** — American businessman and political activist (born 1945) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain))
- **2018** — **Michael A. Sheehan** — American author, former government official and military officer (born 1955) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Sheehan))

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