On this day in History - Jul 30

• 0578 - Jacob Baradaeus dies. Bishop of Edessa
• 0579 - Pope Benedict I dies.
• 0657 - Pope St. Vitalian is consecrated and enthroned 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
• 1470 - Hongzhi was born (d. 1505). Emperor of China.
• 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
• 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
• 1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
• 1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
• 1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici was born (d. 1609). Grand Duke of Tuscany.
• 1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
  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 - Brendan Byrne was born (d. 1949). Irish writer.
• 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 was born in Stoke Newington. English 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.
• 1811 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
  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 (d. 1919). German industrialist
• 1857 - Thorstein Veblen was born in Cato, Wisconsin (d. 1929). Economist (The Theory of the Leisure Class).
• 1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn was born (d. 1939). English humanitarian.
• 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.
• 1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
• 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
• 1881 - Smedley Butler was born (d. 1940). American Marine general.
• 1889 - Franz Masereel was born (d. 1972). Belgian painter and graphic artist.
• 1889 - Vladimir Zworykin was born (d. 1982). Russian physicist and inventor, often called the "Father of Television" for inventing the iconoscope.
• 1890 - Casey Stengel was born (d. 1975). Baseball Hall of Famer.
• 1893 - Fatima Jinnah was born (d. 1967). Pakistani Mother of the Nation.
• 1894 - Walter Pater dies in Oxford.
• 1895 - Wanda Hawley was born (d. 1963). American actress.
• 1898 - Henry Moore was born (d. 1986). English sculptor.
• 1898 - Otto von Bismarck dies (b. 1815). German chancellor
• 1899 - Gerald Moore was born (d. 1987). English pianist.
• 1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dies (b. 1844).
• 1901 - Alfred Lépine was born (d. 1955). Quebec ice hockey player and coach
• 1904 - Salvador Novo was born (d. 1974). Mexican writer.
• 1904 - Tsarevich Alexei of Russia was born (d. 1918)
• 1906 - Mario Quintana was born (1994). Brazilian poet / Mário 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.
• 1910 - Edgar de Evia was born (d. 2003). American mountain climber
• 1912 - Emperor Meiji dies (b. 1852). Japanese emperor.
• 1914 - Lord Killanin was born (d. 1999). Irish International Olympic Committee president.
• 1916 - Dick Wilson was born. American actor
• 1918 - Joyce Kilmer dies in fighting near Seringes on the Western Front. American poet.
• 1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle was born. Half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
• 1921 - Grant Johannesen was born (d. 2005). American pianist.
• 1925 - Alexander Trocchi was born (d. 1984). Scottish writer.
• 1925 - Jacques Sernas was born. French actor (La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.)
• 1926 - Christine McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
• 1927 - Richard Johnson was born. English actor.
• 1928 - George Eastman showed the first color motion pictures in the U.S.
• 1928 - Eunice Muñoz was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1929 - Christine McGuire was born. American singer (The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, He)
• 1929 - Sid Krofft was born. Canadian children's television producer
• 1929 - Werner Tübke was born. German painter.
• 1930 - Thomas Sowell was born. American 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 X Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, California.
• 1932 - Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
• 1933 - Edward Byrnes was born. American actor (77 Sunset Strip, holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960])
• 1934 - Ben Piazza was born (d. 1991). American 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.
• 1936 - Buddy Guy was born. American guitarist and singer
• 1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain was born.
• 1937 - Keizo Obuchi was born (d. 2000). 84th Prime Minister of Japan.
• 1938 - Hervé de Charette was born. French politician
• 1938 - Joe Nuxhall was born. Baseball: Cincinnati Reds pitcher: youngest major-league player [15yrs, 314 days])
• 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 - Patricia Schroeder was born. American politician, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado (1973-1977)
• 1940 - Nicolau Breyner was born in Serpa. Portuguese actor.
• 1940 - Clive Sinclair was born. British entrepreneur.
• 1941 - Count Desmond (Edward Benjamin) was born. American sword swallower
• 1941 - Paul Anka was born. Canadian singer and composer
• 1943 - Henri-François Gautrin was born. Quebec politician
• 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.
• 1945 - David Sanborn was born. American musician, Grammy award winning
• 1946 - Neil Bonnett was born (d. 1994). NASCAR driver.
• 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger was born. American actor and politician, 38th Governor of California
• 1947 - William Atherton was born. American actor
• 1947 - Joseph Cook dies (b. 1860). Sixth Prime Minister of Australia
• 1948 - Jean Reno was born. Moroccon-born French 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. American singer and actor
• 1953 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
• 1954 - Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
• 1954 - Ken Olin was born. Actor (Hill Street Blues, Thirtysomething)
• 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.
• 1956 - Delta Burke was born. American actress (Designing Women, Filthy Rich)
• 1956 - Anita Hill was born. American law professor, author
• 1956 - Réal Cloutier was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 - Nery Pumpido was born. Argentine football goalkeeper
• 1957 - Rat Scabies was born. British musician
• 1957 - Colm Imbert was born. Trinidadian politician
• 1957 - Clint Hurdle was born. American baseball player and manager
• 1957 - Rui Veloso was born. Portuguese singer, rock musician.
• 1958 - Kate Bush was born. English singer.
• 1958 - Richard Burgi was born. Actor
• 1958 - Kate Bush was born. British musician
• 1958 - Daley Thompson was born. English decathlete
• 1960 - Richard Linklater was born. American director
• 1961 - Laurence Fishburne was born. American actor
• 1961 - Neal McCoy was born. Country singer
• 1962 - Alton Brown was born. American television host and chef
• 1963 - Lisa Kudrow was born. American actress
• 1963 - Chris Mullin was born. Basketball player
• 1964 - Vivica A. Fox was born. American actress (Independence Day)
• 1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann was born. German football player and manager
• 1964 - Dwayne O'Brien was born. Country musician (Little Texas)
• 1965 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
• 1965 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese author (b. 1886)
  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.
• 1968 - Robert Korzeniowski was born. Polish athlete
• 1968 - Sean Moore was born. Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
• 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.
• 1969 - Simon Baker was born. American actor
• 1970 - Powder Ridge Rock Festival
• 1970 - Christopher Nolan was born. British film director
• 1970 - George Szell dies (b. 1897). Hungarian conductor
• 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 - Pan-American Games started in Colombia
• 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. Canadian comedian, actor
• 1971 - Christine Taylor was born. American actress (The Brady Bunch Movie)
• 1971 - Kenneth Slessor dies (b. 1901). Australian poet
• 1973 - Markus Naslund was born. Swedish icehockey player
• 1973 - Sonu Nigam was born. Indian singer/actor
• 1974 - Radostin Kishishev was born. Bulgarian footballer
• 1974 - Hilary Swank was born. American 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 - Cherie Priest was born. American writer
• 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.
• 1976 - O Cruzeiro, de Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brasil , ganha a Copa Libertadores da América, vencendo o River Plate, da Argentina, por 3 a 2.
• 1977 - Jaime Pressly was born. American actress
• 1979 - Graeme McDowell was born. Northern Irish professional golfer
• 1979 - Ian Watkins was born. Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
• 1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.
• 1980 - Sara Anzanello was born. Italian volleyball player
• 1981 - Nicky Hayden was born. American motorcycle racer
• 1982 - Matthew Johnson was born. American rapper
• 1983 - Sean Dillon was born. Irish footballer
• 1983 - Lynn Fontanne dies (b. 1887). English actress.
• 1983 - Howard Dietz dies (b. 1896). American lyricist.
• 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.
• 1984 - Kevin Pittsnogle was born. American basketball player
• 1985 - Daniel Fredheim Holm was born. Norwegian footballer
• 1985 - Julia Hall Bowman Robinson dies (b. 1919). American mathematician.
• 1986 - Adam Nelson was born. English conductor.
• 1988 - Chacrinha dies (b. 1916). Brazilian TV presenter and radialist,
• 1989 - Lane Frost dies (b. 1963). American bull rider.
• 1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
• 1992 - Joe Shuster dies (b. 1914). Canadian comic book artist.
• 1992 - Brenda Marshall dies (b. 1915). American actress.
• 1996 - Claudette Colbert dies in Barbados at age 92. French-American 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 (59,05% dos votos) against Francisco Arias (38,04%).
• 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
• 2002 - Young Crown Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, second in line to the Nepalese throne
• 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 (b. 1923). American record producer.
• 2004 - A gas explosion kills 16 people in Belgium.
• 2004 - Andre Noble dies (b. 1979). Canadian actor.
• 2005 - Ray Cunningham dies (b. 1905). Baseball player.
• 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.
• 2006 - At least 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the Second Qana massacre.
• 2006 - Al Balding dies (b. 1924). Canadian professional golfer.
• 2006 - Murray Bookchin dies (b. 1921). American libertarian socialist.
• Vanuatu - Independence Day