July 30 in History

Historical Events on July 30

762

Baghdad is founded.
1419

First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
1502

Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1609

Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.
1619

In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1626

An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
1635

Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
1656

Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
1676

Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
1729

Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
1733

The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
1756

In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1811

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
1825

Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.
1859

First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863

American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
1864

American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
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.
1866

Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
1871

The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
1912

Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
1930

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1932

Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1945

World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
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.
1962

The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1965

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
1966

England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
1969

Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
1971

Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1971

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.
1974

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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.
1978

The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
1980

Vanuatu gains independence.
1980

Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
1981

As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
2003

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
2006

The 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.
2012

A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
2012

A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
2014

One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India; 20 are killed.

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