Historical Birthdays for Tomorrow

🎂 Famous Historical Birthdays - July 30, 2026

1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100

1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution

1988 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO

1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic

1865 Pope Pius IX visits Suriname

1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg

1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil

1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties

1914 John French appointed British supreme commander

1985 Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss

1926 Albanian boundaries deduced

1992 Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)

1971 US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon

1969 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting

1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)

1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective US governing body

1775 Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England

1975 Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London

1952 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid

1970 -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas

1965 Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains," premieres

1980 Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke

1984 Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV

1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized

1941 German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands

1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms

1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14

1930 Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo

1994 Record 103.8шF (39.9шC) in Preschen Lausitz Germany

1729 City of Baltimore founded

1864 Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire

1988 James Ogilvy (under Engl princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson

1988 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m

1715 Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida

1913 Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War

1942 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands

1908 Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris

1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)

1844 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club

1878 German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election

1948 Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)

1990 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees

1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago

1965 Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants

1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open

1975 Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit

1981 Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London

1978 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic

1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame

1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71

1990 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money

1626 Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die

1969 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas

1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff

1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"

1989 Chile amends its constitution

1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii

1988 King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives

1990 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die

1653 Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland

1938 Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece

1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time

1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager

1981 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism

1826 Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed

1972 "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs

1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif

1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1969 Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)

1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966

1995 Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI

1864 Battle of Chambersburg, PA - burned by Union forces under McCausland

1914 Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization

1944 US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-L“ Normandy

1947 Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4

1980 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France

1973 Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0

1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM

1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs

1646 English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions

1864 Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg

1909 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

1972 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open

1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow

1982 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats

1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston

1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)

1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players

1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency

1967 Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ

1995 Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic

1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball

0657 St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I

1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)

1939 Belgium SylvЉre Maes wins 33rd Tour de France

1961 Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open

1966 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam

1930 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio

1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1601 Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius

1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ

1961 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL

1822 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church

1959 In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4

1537 Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire

1944 Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy

1945 Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die

1928 George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)

1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army

1914 French troops withdraw 10 km from German border

1964 US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam

1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993

1933 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)

1943 US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano

0579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1970 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct

1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague & throw Catholic councillors out the windows

1982 USSR performs underground nuclear Test

1809 English invasion army lands in Walcheren

1969 Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets

1917 Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting

1866 Race riot in New Orleans

1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)

1966 England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London

1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad

1863 Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

1988 John Franco saves record 13th game of July

1955 Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France

1678 English troops lands in Flanders

1965 Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple," premieres

1990 Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333

1954 Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)

1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ

1976 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy

1991 Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)

1971 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)

1874 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles

1995 Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford

1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up

1650 Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam

1655 Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram

1962 All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)

1978 Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs

1898 Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes

1988 Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month

1985 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission

1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162

1824 Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Th‚ѓtre Italian, Paris

1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy

1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1968 Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years

1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)

1984 Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant

1618 Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht

1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away

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