About July 30
July 30, 2025 is the 211th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 202 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 30
- 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.
- 1811 –Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
- 1825 –Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
- 1859 –First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
- 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.
- 1866 –New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
- 1871 –The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
- 1930 –In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football 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.
- 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.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
- 1971 –An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
- 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.
- 1978 –The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
- 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 –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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