Today in History
30 July
188 births · 104 deaths · 51 events recorded
Notable Births
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Joey King
b. 1999
American actress (born 1999)
Nina Stojanović
b. 1996
Serbian professional tennis player (born 1996)
Dylan Larkin
b. 1996
American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Hirving Lozano
b. 1995
Mexican footballer (born 1995)
Nelydia Senrose
b. 1994
Malaysian actress (born 1994)
Bill Cartwright
b. 1957
American basketball player and coach
Jeffrey Hammond
b. 1946
British musician
Grant Johannesen
b. 1921
American pianist (1921–2005)
Notable Deaths
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David Argue
d. 2025
Australian actor (1959–2025)
George Nigh
d. 2025
American politician (1927–2025)
Onyeka Onwenu
d. 2024
Nigerian singer, actress and politician (1952–2024)
Paul Reubens
d. 2023
American actor and comedian (1952–2023)
Pat Carroll
d. 2022
American actress and comedian (1927–2022)
Nichelle Nichols
d. 2022
American actress (1932–2022)
Harun Farocki
d. 2014
German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film (1944–2014)
Otto von Bismarck
d. 1898
Chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890
On This Day in History
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2025
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.
2025 Kamchatka earthquake
2024
A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.
2024 Wayanad landslides
2020
NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Mars 2020
2014
Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
2014 Malin landslide
2012
A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Nellore train fire
2012
A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
2012 India blackouts
2011
Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
Zara Tindall
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.
Top of the Pops