Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on July 30 throughout history.
On 30 July 2025, at 11:24:52 PETT, a Mw 8.8 megathrust earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, 119 km (74 mi) east-southeast of…
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.
A series of landslides occurred in Punjirimattom, Mundakkai, Chooralmala, and Vellarimala villages in Meppadi panchayat, Vythiri taluk in Wayanad district, Kerala, India in the ea…
A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.
Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-grounded small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Explora…
NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
On 30 July 2014, a landslide occurred in the village of Malin in the Ambegaon taluka of the Pune district in Maharashtra, India. The landslide, which hit early in the morning whil…
Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
The Nellore train fire occurred on 30 July 2012, when the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express train caught fire at 4:22 am near Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. At least 32 passengers…
A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Two severe power outages affected most of northern and eastern India on 30 and 31 July 2012. The 30 July 2012 blackout affected over 400 million people and lasted about 13.5 hrs. …
A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall is a British equestrian, Olympian, and member of the British royal family. She is the daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and Captain Mark Phillips, and …
Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.
Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British record chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was the world's …
The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired…
The 2006 Qana airstrike was an airstrike carried out by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) on a three-story building in the small community of al-Khuraybah near the South Lebanese villag…
An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.
The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, is a small family car produced by the German company Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003. A global cultural icon known for its bu…
In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
The Pyrenean ibex, Aragonese and Spanish common name bucardo, Basque common name bukardo, Catalan common name herc and French common name bouquetin, was one of the four subspecies…
Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from…
Ian Reginald Edward Gow was a British politician and solicitor. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne from 1974, until his a…
Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured…
Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. As of 2025, Łódź has a …
As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration…
Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is an archipelagic country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is 1,750 km …
Vanuatu gains independence.
The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel.
Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
In Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, 730 is a reference to July 30, 1978, the day the prefecture switched back from driving on the right-hand side of the road to the left.
The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
James Riddle Hoffa was an American labor union leader who served as the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 to 1971. He was alleged to …
Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb…
The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. On June 17, 1972, operatives asso…
Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do…
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was concei…
Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the…
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is a Japanese airline headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. ANA operates services to both domestic and international destinations and is Japan's largest airline…
An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162.