What are the important events that happened on July 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 30: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 30 is the 212^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 17, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,704,960 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecadigon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 183 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,239 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 30 Historical Events

• 762 –
  Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
• 1619 –
  In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
• 1656 –
  Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
• 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.
• 1932 –
  Premiere of Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
• 1967 –
  Israel passes the Jerusalem Law and annexes East Jerusalem.
• 1974 –
  Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
• 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, and will be declared legally dead on this date in 1982.
• 1980 –
  Israel’s Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
• 2003 –
  In Mexico, the last ‘old style’Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Who were born on July 30?

• 1818 –
  Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
• 1898 –
  Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
• 1925 –
  Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
• 1933 –
  Edd Byrnes, American actor
• 1947 –
  William Atherton, American actor
• 1957 –
  Bill Cartwright, American basketball player
• 1958 –
  Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
• 1964 –
  Vivica A. Fox, American actress
• 1969 –
  Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer
• 1982 –
  James Anderson, English cricketer

Who died on July 30?

• 578 –
  Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa (birth date unknown)
• 579 –
  Pope Benedict I (birth date unknown)
• 1900 –
  Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
• 1930 –
  Joan Gamper, Swiss-born Spanish football pioneer, businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
• 1994 –
  Ryszard Riedel, Polish singer (b.1956)
• 1997 –
  Bảo Đại, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
• 2003 –
  Sam Phillips, American record producer (b. 1923)
• 2005 –
  Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 2007 –
  Teoctist, Romanian-born Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
• 2008 –
  Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927)