July 30

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 30. From 1900 until now. July 30 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Jean Reno (1948) and Kate Bush (1958). Several movies were released around July 30 over the years, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock in 1975 directed by Peter Weir and To Catch a Thief in 1955 directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
But much more happened on July 30 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Vanuatu - Independence Day
St. Julitta (a martyr)
St. Sennen
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 3 saints: St. Abdon

Events

2019 War in North-West Pakistan: Four are killed and over 20 injured in a bomb blast near a police station in Quetta, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
2018 Syrian Civil War: 2018 Southern Syria offensive: The Syrian Army seizes control of Al-Shajara, described as ISIL's "main bastion" in the Daraa Governorate. (The New Arab)The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that ISIL militants are holding more than 30 Druze women and children hostage following last week's attacks on Druze villages in the As-Suwayda Governorate. (BBC)
2017 Boko Haram insurgency: Boko Haram insurgents ambush an oil exploration team in the Magumeri area of Borno State, Nigeria, killing at least 69 people. (AFP via News24)
2016 Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present): The Turkish military kills 35 Kurdistan Workers' Party militants after they attempt to capture a base in Turkey's Hakkâri Province. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
2015 Turkey–PKK conflict: An ambush on a Turkish military convoy in the south-eastern Şırnak Province by PKK militants kills 3 Turkish soldiers. (BBC)
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: War in Donbass:: Fighting intensifies in the east as Ukraine forces recapture control of the strategic town of Avdiivka from pro-Russian insurgents. (BBC)
2013 Nigerian Sharia conflict:: 28 people are killed in a series of explosions targeting bars in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. (BBC)
2012 31 ampndash In the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power.
2011 Libyan Civil War:: (NATO claims to have destroyed three television distribution facilities in an airstrike on Tripoli, Libya. (NATO)
2010 Afghan War Diary
2009 70,000 people are evacuated from Bryan, TX, United States, after ammonium nitrate is released during a fire at the El Dorado Chemical Company warehouse there.(AP via google)
2008 Heritage Numismatic Auctions sells a 1944-S steel Lincoln cent graded MS-66 by NGC for US$373,450, a record for any small cent.
2007 New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister.
2006 Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.
2005 Thousands of Czech riot police disperse the crowd at the annual free electronic music festival "CzechTek", leaving dozens injured. (CBC)
2004 The United Nations Security Council passes a US-drafted resolution 1556 demanding the Sudanese government end atrocities in the Darfur conflict; however, aid groups criticize the weakening of the resolution at the insistence of China, Pakistan, and Russia. (BBC)
2003 In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2002 Sotheby's in New York in conjunction with Stack's auctions the King Farouk specimen of the US 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle for $7,590,020, a world record for a single coin at auction. The $20 represents a $20 Federal Reserve note paid by auctioneer David Redden to Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore to officially monetize the coin.
1998 The Disney Cruise Line launches its first cruise ship, the Disney Magic, from Port Canaveral, Florida.
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
1992 Lin Li swims female world record / OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1990 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money
1989 Chile amends its constitution
1988 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
1984 Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of the USSR jerks a record 261 kg
1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
1980 Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits and NL-record-tying 8 HRs
1977 Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Dresdner-Bank.com chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.
1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as Premier of Italy
1975 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit, Illinois.
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of high crimes and misdemeanors to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1973 Texas Rangers' Jim Bibby no-hits Oakland Athletics, 6-0.
1972 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
1971 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut, USA.
1969 Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs. Mets
1968 Thames Television starts transmission in London.
1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (four killed).
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1964 US naval fire on Hon Ngu / Hon Mo, North Vietnam
1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1961 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields, Illinois
1959 In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
1956 US motto In God We Trust authorized
1955 Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
1954 Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
1947 Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to New York Giants 5-4
1946 First rocket attains 100 miles (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico, USA.
1945 Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed / sinks, 880 die
1944 Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire and Villebaudon Normandy
1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1942 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in the Netherlands
1941 German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU and SGP in the Netherlands
1938 Gen Metaxas names himself Premier of Greece
1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1933 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1930 1st broadcast of Death Valley Days on NBC-radio
1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
1926 Albanian boundaries deduced
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
1920 August 8 ampndash 1st World Scout Jamboree held at Olympia, London.
1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey.
1914 Austrian-Hungary and Russia proclaim general mobilization
1913 Conclusion of the second Balkan War.
1912 Emperor Meiji of Japan dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito who becomes Emperor Taishō. In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji era and the beginning of the Taishō era.
1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris.
1903 August 23 (July 17ampndashAugust 10, O.S.) ampndash Second Congress of the All-Russian Social Democratic Labour Party held in exile in Brussels, transferring to London.
1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
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