30 July
Notable Births
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)
Jake Faria
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
André Gomes
b. 1993
Portuguese footballer (born 1993)
Miho Miyazaki
b. 1993
Japanese singer
Hannah Cockroft
b. 1992
British wheelchair racer
Diana Vickers
b. 1991
English singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer
Chris Maxwell (footballer)
b. 1990
Welsh footballer
Tom Morris (journalist)
b. 1990
Australian sports journalist
Aleix Espargaró
b. 1989
Spanish motorcycle racer (born 1989)
Wayne Parnell
b. 1989
South African cricketer
Anton Fink
b. 1987
German professional footballer
William Zillman
b. 1986
Australian rugby league footballer
Chris Guccione (tennis)
b. 1985
Australian tennis player
Daniel Fredheim Holm
b. 1985
Norwegian footballer and coach (born 1985)
Luca Lanotte
b. 1985
Italian ice dancer (born 1985)
Matthew Scott (rugby league)
b. 1985
Australia international rugby league footballer
Notable Deaths
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)
Shona Ferguson
d. 2021
Motswana actor and film producer (1974–2021)
Lee Teng-hui
d. 2020
President of the Republic of China from 1988 to 2000
Herman Cain
d. 2020
American businessman (1945–2020)
Michael A. Sheehan
d. 2018
American author and former government official
Gloria DeHaven
d. 2016
American actress and singer (1925–2016)
Lynn Anderson
d. 2015
American country music singer (1947–2015)
Alena Vrzáňová
d. 2015
Czech figure skater
Harun Farocki
d. 2014
German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film (1944–2014)
Julio Grondona
d. 2014
Argentine football executive
Peter Hall (urbanist)
d. 2014
Town planner, urbanist and geographer
Dick Smith (make-up artist)
d. 2014
American prosthetic makeup artist (1922–2014)
Dick Wagner
d. 2014
American guitarist (1942–2014)
Berthold Beitz
d. 2013
German industrialist
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
2006
An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.
2006 Qana airstrike
2003
In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
Volkswagen Beetle
2003
Three years after the death the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so-far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.
Pyrenean ibex
1990
Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.
Ian Gow
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.
Łódź
1980
Vanuatu gains independence.
Vanuatu
1980
Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
Knesset
1978
The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
730 (transport)
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.
Jimmy Hoffa
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.
Watergate scandal
1971
Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
Apollo program
1971
An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162.
All Nippon Airways