Today in History – July 30 in History
What happened on this day in history – July 30 in History around the world
| 1619 | The House of Burgesses convenes for the first time at Jamestown, Va. | |
| 1787 | The French parliament refuses to approve a more equitable land tax. | |
| 1799 | The French garrison at Mantua, Italy, surrenders to the Austrians. | |
| 1864 | In an effort to penetrate the Confederate lines around Petersburg, Va. Union troops explode a mine underneath the Confederate trenches but fail to break through. The ensuing action is known as the Battle of the Crater. | |
| 1919 | Federal troops are called out to put down Chicago race riots. | |
| 1938 | George Eastman demonstrates his color motion picture process. | |
| 1940 | A bombing lull ends the first phase of the Battle of Britain. | |
| 1960 | Over 60,000 Buddhists march in protest against the Diem government in South Vietnam. | |
| 1965 | President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare Bill into law. | |
| 1967 | General William Westmoreland claims that he is winning the war in Vietnam, but needs more men. | |
| 1975 | Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears, last seen coming out of a restaurant in Bloomingfield Hills, Michigan. | |
| 1988 | King Hussein dissolves Jordan’s Parliament, surrenders Jordan’s claims to the West Bank to the Palestinian Liberation Organization. | |
| 1990 | Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent forces George Steinbrenner to resign as principal parter of the New York Yankees. | |
| 2003 | The last of the uniquely shaped “old style” Volkswagen Beetles rolls off the assembly line in Mexico. | |
| 2012 | Blackout in India as power grid failure leaves 300 million+ without power. | |
| Born on July 30 | ||
| 1818 | Emily Bronte, author (Wuthering Heights). | |
| 1857 | Thorstein Veblen, economist and sociologist (The Theory of the Leisure Class). | |
| 1863 | Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. | |
| 1889 | Casey Stengel, New York Yankees manager. | |
| 1898 | Henry Moore, English sculptor. | |
| 1909 | C. Northcote Parkinson, historian and author. | |
| 1924 | William H. Gass, writer (Omensetter’s Luck). | |
| 1940 | Patricia Shroeder, U.S. Congresswoman. | |
| 1941 | Paul Anka, singer (“Puppy Love,” “You Are My Destiny”). | |
| 1945 | David Sanborn, Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist (“Inside,” “Close-Up”). | |
| 1947 | Arnold Schwarzenegger, body builder (Mr. Universe, seven-time Mr. Olympia), actor (Terminator, Total Recall), 38th governor of California. | |
| 1958 | Kate Bush, singer, songwriter; first woman to have a UK number-one single with a self-written song (“Wuthering Heights”); appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2013. | |
| 1961 | Laurence Fishburne, actor (The Matrix series, The Tuskegee Airmen TV movie, CSI – Crime Scene Investigation TV series). | |