July 30: Day of the Week
July 30, 2022 is the 211th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Doyōbi.
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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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July 30 Historical Event(s)
- 1419First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
- 1502Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
- 1629An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
- 1866New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
- 1962The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
- 1967Israel passes the Jerusalem Law and annexes East Jerusalem.
- 1975The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
- 1978The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
- 2006Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets’ being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.
- 2006The 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.
Who were born on July 30?
- 1818Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
- 1872Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
- 1890Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
- 1901Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
- 1914Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
- 1940Pat Schroeder, American politician
- 1958Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
- 1979Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
- 1983Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
- 1991Diana Vickers, English singer and stage actress
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