About July 30
July 30, 2024 is the 212th 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.
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Leo is the sun 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.
What Happened On July 30
- 762 –Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.
- 1502 –Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
- 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 about 10,000 people.
- 1656 –Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.
- 1729 –Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1733 –The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
- 1825 –Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
- 1863 –Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
- 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.
- 1871 –The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
- 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 largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
- 1971 –An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
- 1974 –Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
- 1975 –The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
- 1980 –Israel’s Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
- 1990 –George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to “get dirt” on Dave Winfield.
- 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.
- 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.
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