On this day in History - Jul 30

• 0578 - Jacob Baradaeus dies. Bishop of Edessa
• 0579 - Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0657 - St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1178 - Fredrick "Barbarossa" crowned King of Burgundy
• 1233 - Assassination of Conrad of Marburg and Gerhard Lutelholb
• 1291 - Haifa falls to the Mameluks
• 1371 - Massacre of the Compagnia del Bruco in Florence, Italy
• 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague; Beginning of the Hussite Wars
• 1511 - Giorgio Vasari was born (d. 27 Jun 1574). Italian painter
• 1523 - Juan de Anchieta was born. Spanish composer.
• 1538 - Newfoundland reached by Sir Humphrey Gilbert
• 1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici was born (d. 1609). Grand Duke of Tuscany.
• 1565 - Mary Stuart, widowed, marries Lord Darnley, duke of Albany.
• 1588 - Howard sails from Plymouth
• 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.
• 1609 - Iroquois Indians defeated by their first sight of firearms
• 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 10,000 people.
• 1641 - Regnier de Graaf was born (d. 1673). Dutch physician and anatomist.
• 1652 - Charles Amédée de Savoie dies (b. 1624). 6th Duc de Nemours, French soldier.
• 1680 - Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory dies (b. 1634). Irish naval commander.
• 1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain dies (b. 1638). Queen of Louis XIV of France.
• 1691 - Daniel Georg Morhof dies (b. 1639). German writer and scholar.
• 1715 - Nahum Tate dies (b. 1652). Irish poet.
• 1718 - William Penn dies (b. 1644). English founder of the Province of Pennsylvania.
• 1729 - Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
• 1733 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
• 1756 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
• 1763 - Samuel Rogers is born in Stoke Newington, England. Poet (The Pleasures of Memory). He will be best remembered as a witty conversationalist and friend of many greater poets.
• 1766 - Carta régia que proíbe, no Brasil, as indústrias de ourives, fiadores de ouro, de sedas e algodões tecidos.
• 1771 - Thomas Gray dies (b. 1716). English poet and letter-writer ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard") .
• 1784 - Denis Diderot dies. French wryter and encyclopedist.
• 1818 - Emily Brontë was born (d. 1848). English novelist.
• 1825 - Malden Island discovered.
• 1835 - Vicente Rocafuerte ocupa la presidencia de Ecuador.
• 1848 - A iluminação a gás é inaugurada em Lisboa.
• 1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens was born. German industrialist
• 1857 - Thorstein Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin (d. 1929). Economist (The Theory of the Leisure Class).
• 1863 - Henry Ford was born (d. 1947). American industrialist / Nascimento de Henry Ford (1863-1947), no Michigan, Estados Unidos da América. Foi o inventor da linha de montagem para produção de automóveis.
• 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 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater - Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
• 1875 - George Pickett, dies (b. 1825). American Confederate general.
• 1879 - António Correia de Oliveira was born on S. Pedro do Sul (b. 1960). Portuguese poet
• 1889 - Franz Masereel was born (d. 1972). Painter and graphic artist.
• 1889 - Vladimir Zworykin was born in Russia (d. 1982). Physicist and inventor, often called the "Father of Television" for inventing the iconoscope.
• 1890 - Casey Stengel was born (d. 1975). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1894 - Walter Pater dies in Oxford.
• 1898 - Otto von Bismarck dies. German chancellor
• 1898 - Henry Moore was born (d. 1986). English sculptor.
• 1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dies (b. 1844).
• 1906 - Mario Quintana nascia em Alegrete (RS) (d. 5 Mai 1994). Poeta brasileiro (A Rua dos Cataventos)
• 1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson, was born (d. 1993). British historian and writer.
• 1912 - Emperor Meiji dies (b. 1852). Japanese emperor.
• 1914 - Lord Killanin was born (d. 1999). Former IOC president.
• 1918 - Joyce Kilmer dies in fighting near Seringes on the Western Front. Poet.
• 1921 - Grant Johannesen was born (d. 2005). American concert pianist.
• 1925 - Mikis Theodorakis was born. Greek composer.
• 1925 - Jacques Sernas was born. Actor (La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.)
• 1927 - Richard Johnson was born. Actor.
• 1928 - George Eastman showed the first color motion pictures in the U.S.
• 1928 - Eunice Muñoz was born. Portiguese actress.
• 1929 - Christine McGuire was born. Singer (The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, He)
• 1929 - Werner Tübke was born. Painter (de:Werner Tübke)
• 1930 - Thomas Sowell was born. Economist
• 1930 - In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup. / Em Montevideu, os donos da casa vencem a Argentina por 4 a 2 e conquistam o Campeonato do Mundo de Futebol.
• 1930 - Hans Gamper dies. Founder of Futbol Club Barcelona
• 1932 - The 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California.
• 1933 - Edd "Kookie" Byrnes was born. Actor(77 Sunset Strip, holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960])
• 1934 - Ben Piazza was born. Actor (Guilty by Suspicion, The Hanging Tree)
• 1934 - Bud Selig was born. Baseball team owner and commissioner
• 1934 - Kurt von Schuschnigg was named Austrian chancellor following the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss.
• 1934 - «Noite das Facas Longas». Ernest Rohm, chefe das SA, e um número muito elevado de comandantes da organização paramilitar do partido nazi, são assassinados por ordem de Hitler, assim como muitos políticos de direita, que se opunham ao governo ditatorial de Hitler.
• 1936 - Buddy Guy was born. Guitarist, singer
• 1938 - Joe Nuxhall was born. Baseball: Cincinnati Reds pitcher: youngest major-league player [15yrs, 314 days])
• 1938 - Hervé de Charette was born.French politician
• 1939 - Eleanor Smeal was born. Feminist activist.
• 1939 - Peter Bogdanovich was born. American film director (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What's Up Doc?)
• 1940 - Former U-S Representative Patricia Schroeder.
• 1940 - Nicolau Breyner was born. Portuguese actor.
• 1940 - Clive Sinclair was born. British entrepreneur.
• 1941 - Count Desmond (Edward Benjamin) sword swallower
• 1941 - Paul Anka was born. Singer and composer
• 1945 - David Sanborn was born. Jazz musician, Grammy Award winner
• 1945 - World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst single loss in the history of the United States Navy.
• 1946 - Neil Bonnett was born (d. 1994). NASCAR driver.
• 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger was born. Actor, 38th Governor of California
• 1947 - William Atherton was born. American actor
• 1947 - Joseph Cook dies. Sixth Prime Minister of Australia
• 1948 - Jean Reno was born. Actor
• 1949 - Dwight White (football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV)
• 1950 - Willie Harper was born. Football: San Francisco '49ers linebacker: Super Bowl XVI)
• 1950 - Frank Stallone was born. Actor
• 1953 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
• 1954 - Ken Olin was born. Actor (Hill Street Blues, Thirtysomething)
• 1956 - Delta Burke was born. (Designing Women, Filthy Rich)
• 1956 - Anita Hill was born. American law professor, author
• 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.
• 1957 - Nery Pumpido was born. Argentine football player, coach.
• 1957 - Rui Veloso was born. Portuguese singer, rock musician.
• 1958 - Kate Bush was born. English singer.
• 1958 - Richard Burgi was born. Actor
• 1961 - Laurence Fishburne was born. Actor
• 1961 - Neal McCoy was born. Country singer
• 1962 - Alton Brown was born. Food Network host
• 1963 - Lisa Kudrow was born. Actress
• 1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann was born. German football player amd manager.
• 1964 - Vivica A. Fox was born. Actress
• 1964 - Dwayne O'Brien was born. Country musician (Little Texas)
• 1964 - Vivica Fox was born. Actress ("Independence Day")
• 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
• 1966 - At Wembley Stadium, host England wins the Football World Cup, beating Germany 4 to 2. / Em Londres, os donos da casa vencem a Alemanha por 4 a 2 e conquistam a Copa do Mundo de Futebol.
• 1966 - President Johnson signed the Medicare bill on this day in 1966.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders.
• 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
• 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 lands on the Moon. David Scott and James Irwin on Lunar module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
• 1971 - Início dos Jogos Pan-Americanos na Colômbia
• 1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162
• 1971 - Tom Green was born. Comedian, actor
• 1971 - Christine Taylor was born. Actress ("The Brady Bunch Movie")
• 1971 - Kenneth Slessor dies. Australian poet
• 1974 - Hilary Swank was born. Academy Award winning actress
• 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
• 1975 - Representatives of 35 countries convened in Helsinki, Finland, for a conference on security and human rights that resulted in the "Helsinki Accords." The conference was aimed at ensuring peace in Europe.
• 1975 - Graham Nicholls was born. British artist
• 1975 - James Blish dies. Author
• 1975 - Jimmy Hoffa, labour leader, 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.
• 1977 - Jaime Pressly was born. Actress.
• 1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.
• 1981 - Nicky Hayden was born. American Motorcycle Racer
• 1983 - Lynn Fontanne dies. Actress.
• 1983 - Luis Buñel was born. Spanish film composer.
• 1984 - West German swimmer Michael Gross became the first double gold winner of the 1984 Summer Olympics, while the United States picked up three gold medals in swimming and shooting.
• 1984 - Mobutu Sese Seko is reelected Presidente of Zaire.
• 1988 - Chacrinha dies (b. 1916). Brazilian TV presenter and radialist,
• 1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
• 1996 - Claudette Colbert dies in Barbados at age 92. Actress
• 1997 - A double suicide bombing kills 14 people in Jerusalem,Israel.
• 1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia.
• 1997 - Bao Dai dies (b. 1913). Last empereur of Vietnam
• 2000 - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela won a fresh six-year term in a landslide re-election.
• 2002 - Los Angeles Sparks center Lisa Leslie is the first woman to dunk in a basketball game.
• 2002 - The accounting law referred to as "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was signed into law by United States President George W. Bush
• 2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
• 2003 - 490,000 Rock Fans attend Sarsfest concert at Downsview park in Toronto, Canada, Headlined by The Rolling Stones, AC/DC Rush, The Tea Party, and 12 other major rock acts.
• 2003 - Sam Phillips dies. Record producer.
• 2004 - A gas explosion kills 16 people in Belgium.
• 2005 - John Garang dies (b. 1945). Vice President of Sudan
• 2005 - Anthony Walker dies (b. 1987). Hate crime murder victim
• 2006 - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show has aired for 42 years.
• Vanuatu - Independence Day
• International Bog Day
• Sysadmin Appreciation Day
• Comedy Celebration Day - Held on the last Sunday in July. This celebration in San Francisco recognizes the many comics that started their career there. Sponsor: Jose Simon.