Notable Historical Events on July 30th
July 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
579 |
Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
657 |
St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I |
1178 |
Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy |
1419 |
First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm the Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members (either 7 or 13) out the windows. They all either died in the fall or were killed by the crowd outside. |
1537 |
Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire |
1601 |
Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius |
1618 |
Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht |
1619 |
House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body |
1646 |
English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions |
1650 |
Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam |
1653 |
Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland |
1655 |
Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram |
1678 |
English troops land in Flanders |
1715 |
Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida |
1729 |
City of Baltimore founded |
1733 |
Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston |
1739 |
Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ |
1756 |
Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers. |
1775 |
Captain Cook with Resolution returns to England |
1792 |
500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time |
1809 |
British armed force of 39,000 lands in Walcheren |
1811 |
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico. |
1822 |
James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church |
1824 |
Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris |
1825 |
Malden Island is discovered. |
1826 |
Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed |
1836 |
First English language newspaper published in Hawaii |
1844 |
1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club |
1863 |
President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot |
1863 |
Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah. |
1864 |
Battle of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania - burned by Union forces under McCausland |
1864 |
Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg |
1865 |
Pope Pius IX visits Suriname |
1866 |
New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. |
1869 |
The Charles, considered the world's first "oil tanker", departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil |
1870 |
Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100 |
1870 |
The Republic of Klipdrift is proclaimed by Transvaal President Andries Pretorius after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of treasure hunters; ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics |
1872 |
Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy |
1874 |
1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles |
1878 |
German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election |
1878 |
Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties |
1889 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG) |
1898 |
Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes |
1900 |
British Parliament passes several progressive social acts: a Mines Act, a Workmen's Compensation Act and a Railway Act |
1902 |
Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC) |
1905 |
Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms |
1907 |
Russia and Japan sign an agreement guaranteeing freedom of China while recognizing each other's special interests |
1907 |
The Filipinos elect their first legislature; it will meet on 16 October |
1907 |
Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners |
1908 |
Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris |
1909 |
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
1909 |
Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army |
1913 |
Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War |
1914 |
Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization |
1914 |
French troops withdraw 10 km from German border |
1914 |
John French appointed British supreme commander |
1914 |
After initial reluctance, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is persuaded to decree a general mobilizations in response to Austria; 'Think of the thousands and thousands of men who will be sent to their deaths!' he claims |
1916 |
German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ |
1917 |
Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting |
1921 |
The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground |
1923 |
New Zealand claims Ross Dependency |
1926 |
Albanian boundaries deduced |
1928 |
George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US) |
1930 |
1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio |
1930 |
Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo |
1932 |
10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles |
1933 |
28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2) |
1935 |
1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution |
1937 |
Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs |
1938 |
Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece |
1939 |
Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France |
1941 |
German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands |
1942 |
FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES) |
1942 |
German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
1942 |
German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands |
1943 |
Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy) |
1943 |
US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano |
1944 |
Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy |
1944 |
US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy |
1945 |
Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die |
1946 |
1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM |
1947 |
Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4 |
1948 |
Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6) |
1948 |
Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont) |
1949 |
British warship HMS Amethyst escapes down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff |
1951 |
Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players |
1952 |
Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid |
1953 |
Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance. |
1954 |
Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles |
1954 |
Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71 |
1955 |
Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France |
1956 |
US motto "In God We Trust" authorized |
1959 |
In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 |
1960 |
1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7) |
1961 |
43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL |
1961 |
Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open |
1962 |
33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
1962 |
All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels) |
1963 |
British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow |
1964 |
US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam |
1965 |
Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains" premieres |
1965 |
Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple" premieres |
1965 |
LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966 |
1965 |
Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants |
1966 |
Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks |
1966 |
England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London |
1966 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open |
1966 |
US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam |
1967 |
Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ |
1967 |
Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed) |
1968 |
Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away |
1968 |
Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years |
1969 |
Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets |
1969 |
Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas |
1969 |
KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos) |
1970 |
-Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas |
1970 |
30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct |
1970 |
Riots hit Belfast, North Ireland |
1971 |
38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289) |
1971 |
George Harrison releases "Bangladesh" |
1971 |
Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162 |
1971 |
US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon |
1972 |
"Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs |
1972 |
Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open |
1973 |
Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0 |
1974 |
House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up |
1975 |
Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged" premieres in London |
1975 |
US Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa was legally declared dead in 1982 |
1976 |
Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy |
1976 |
Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball |
1976 |
4 Protestant civilians were shot dead at a pub off Milltown Road, Belfast; the attack was claimed by the Republican Action Force |
1978 |
Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs |
1978 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic |
1980 |
Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke |
1980 |
Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France |
1981 |
Belgian Senate accept laws against racism |
1981 |
Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms" premieres in London |
1982 |
Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats |
1982 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
1983 |
Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif |
1983 |
Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg |
1984 |
Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil |
1984 |
Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant |
1984 |
Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV |
1985 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission |
1985 |
Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
1987 |
An ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command in Johannesburg South Africa kills 1 person and injures 68 |
1988 |
Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month |
1988 |
Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m |
1988 |
John Franco saves record 13th game of July |
1988 |
Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO |
1988 |
King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives |
1988 |
Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min) |
1989 |
Chile amends its constitution |
1989 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
1990 |
Five Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money laundering |
1990 |
Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333 |
1990 |
Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die |
1990 |
George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees |
1990 |
The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line. |
1991 |
MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993 |
1991 |
Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) |
1992 |
Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65) |
1994 |
Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany |
1995 |
Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic |
1995 |
Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI |
1995 |
Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford |
1995 |
Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter baseball's Hall of Fame |
1996 |
Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager |
1997 |
Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14 |
1997 |
Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia. |
2002 |
The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" is signed into law by President George W. Bush. |
2003 |
The last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico |
2004 |
"Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", starring Kal Penn and John Cho, is released |
2006 |
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. |
2009 |
A bomb explodes in Palma Nova, Mallorca, killing 2 police officers. Basque separatist group ETA is believed to be responsible. |
2012 |
Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India |
2012 |
Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without electricity |
2013 |
28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria |
2013 |
134 people are killed in tribal conflicts in Darfyr, Sudan |
2013 |
9 children are killed and 20 are injured after a school bus collides with a truck in Hanumangarh, India |
2013 |
Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan |
2016 |
Russian Weightlifters Banned From Rio Olympics for Doping |
2016 |
Father of fallen Muslim-American Army captain addresses Donald Trump in DNC speech |
2016 |
North Carolina 'discriminatory' voter ID law overturned |
2017 |
US flies bombers over Korean peninsula after North Korea missile test |
2017 |
Jon Jones stops Cormier in 3rd, regains UFC title belt |
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