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On July 30, 762: Baghdad is founded.

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Baghdad is founded.

Baghdad is the capital and largest city in Iraq. It is located on the banks of the Tigris in central Iraq. The city has an estimated population of 8 million.

People

Born on July 30

Joey King 1999– American actress (born 1999)
Nina Stojanović 1996– Serbian professional tennis player (born 1996)
Dylan Larkin 1996– American ice hockey player (born 1996)
Hirving Lozano 1995– Mexican footballer (born 1995)
Nelydia Senrose 1994– Malaysian actress (born 1994)
Jacob Faria 1993– American baseball player (born 1993)
André Gomes 1993– Portuguese footballer (born 1993)
Margarida Moura 1993– Portuguese tennis player (born 1993)
Miho Miyazaki 1993– Japanese singer
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Hannah Cockroft 1992– British wheelchair racer
Diana Vickers 1991– English singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer
Chris Maxwell 1990– Welsh footballer
Tom Morris 1990– Australian sports journalist
Aleix Espargaró 1989– Spanish motorcycle racer (born 1989)
Wayne Parnell 1989– South African cricketer (born 1989)
Wen Chean Lim 1988– Malaysian rhythmic gymnast
Anton Fink 1987– German professional footballer
Sam Saunders 1987– American professional golfer (born 1987)

People

Died on July 30

David Argue Australian actor (1959–2025)
George Nigh American politician (1927–2025)
Onyeka Onwenu Nigerian singer, actress and politician (1952–2024)
Paul Reubens American actor and comedian (1952–2023)
Pat Carroll American actress and comedian (1927–2022)
Nichelle Nichols American actress (1932–2022)
Shona Ferguson Motswana actor and film producer (1974–2021)
Lee Teng-hui President of the Republic of China from 1988 to 2000
Herman Cain American businessman (1945–2020)
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Michael A. Sheehan American author and former government official
Gloria DeHaven American actress and singer (1925–2016)
Lynn Anderson American country music singer (1947–2015)
Stuart Baggs English businessman and entrepreneur
Endel Lippmaa Estonian scientist and politician (1930–2015)
Francis Paul Prucha American historian (1921–2015)
Alena Vrzáňová Czech figure skater
Robert Drew American documentary filmmaker
Harun Farocki German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film (1944–2014)

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Every July 30 on record

  1. 762 Baghdad is founded.

    Capital of Iraq

    Baghdad is the capital and largest city in Iraq. It is located on the banks of the Tigris in central Iraq. The city has an estimated population of 8 million.

  2. 1419 First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

    Incidents of political violence (1419, 1483, 1618)

    The Defenestrations of Prague were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestrated. Though already existing in Middle French, the word defenestrate is believed to have first been used in English in reference to the episodes in Prague in 1618 when the disgruntled Protestant estates threw two royal governors and their secretary out of a window of the Hradčany Castle and wrote an extensive apologia explaining their action. In the Middle Ages and early modern times, defenestration was not uncommon—the act carried elements of lynching and mob violence in the form of murder committed together.

  3. 1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

    1492–1504 voyages to the Americas

    Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian explorer and navigator Christopher Columbus led four Spanish transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs to the Americas. These voyages led to Europeans learning about the New World. This was an early breakthrough in the period known in Europe as the Age of Exploration, which saw the colonization of the Americas, a related biological exchange, and trans-Atlantic trade.

  4. 1609 Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.

    Series of 17th century conflicts between the Haudenosaunee and neighboring nations

    The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars, were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Great Lakes region and the St. Lawrence River valley which pitted the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) – with the active support and arming by the Dutch and later the English – against neighbouring Indigenous nations such as the Wendat (Huron) who were supported by the French.

  5. 1619 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.

    Town and fort established in the Virginia Colony

    The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. 5 mi (4 km) southwest of present-day Williamsburg. S.

  6. 1627 An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.
  7. 1635 Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
  8. 1645 English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold.
  9. 1656 The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.
  10. 1676 Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
  11. 1729 Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.
  12. 1733 The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
  13. 1756 In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
  14. 1811 Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
  15. 1859 First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
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  1. 1863 American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.
  2. 1863 Valuev Circular banned the publication of religious, educational and training books in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire.
  3. 1864 American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
  4. 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.
  5. 1866 Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
  6. 1871 The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
  7. 1912 Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
  8. 1916 The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.
  9. 1930 In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina.
  10. 1932 Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
  11. 1945 World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
  12. 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.
  13. 1962 The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
  14. 1965 U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
  15. 1966 England defeats West Germany to win the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium 4–2 after extra time.

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