Major Events
- 1178 Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
- 1419 First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members out the windows. They die in the fall or killed by crowd outside.
- 1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body
- 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
- 1869 The Charles, considered the world’s first "oil tanker", departs from the United States headed for Europe with a bulk capacity of 7,000 barrels of oil
- 1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
- 1937 Russian Politburo issues NKVD Order no. 00447, to repress former kulak and anti-soviets, 269,100 to be arrested, 76,000 to be shot. Part of the Great Purge.
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Jul 30 in Film & TV
- 1948 Professional wrestling premieres on US prime-time TV (DuMont Network)
Jul 30 in Music
- 1954 Elvis Presley joins the Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
Jul 30 in Sport
Did You Know?
Emily Brontë
Henry Ford
Fatima Jinnah
Peter Bogdanovich
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Laurence Fishburne
Lisa Kudrow
Christopher Nolan
Hilary Swank
Paul Anka
Casey Stengel
Hope Solo
Fun Fact About July 30
The last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico
Famous Weddings
- 1988 American tennis player Chris Evert (33) weds American alpine skier Andy Mill (34) in Boca Raton, Florida (divorced 2006)
- 1988 James Ogilvy, son of Princess Alexandra and member of the British Royal family, marries Julia Rawlinson
- 1994 Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (49) weds Naomi Baka (35) in Maui, Hawaii
Famous Divorces
- 2007 Pop star Britney Spears (25) divorces rapper-dancer Kevin Federline (29) due to irreconcilable differences after over two years of marriage
More July 30 Weddings
Maria Theresa of Spain
William Penn
Otto von Bismarck
Claudette Colbert
Bảo Đại
Paul ReubensArticles, Photos and Quiz
'Iron Chancellor' Bismarck Dies
They called him the “Iron Chancellor”. Had Otto von Bismarck been made of softer stuff the history of the Twentieth Century might have been very different.
July 30, 1898
Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
A scene from the 2016 movie "USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage"
July 30, 1945
Volkswagen Beetle
The last edition of an 'old style' VW Beetle
July 30, 2003
