Public Holidays on July 30

• 🌍 วันเข้าพรรษา (Thailand)

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On This Day in History — July 30

• 2014 — One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India; 20 are killed.
• 2012 — A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• 2012 — A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
• 2006 — The 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.
• 2003 — In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
• 1981 — As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

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Notable Births on July 30

• 1996 — Nina Stojanović, Serbian tennis player
• 1993 — Jacob Faria, American baseball player
• 1993 — Margarida Moura, Portuguese tennis player
• 1992 — Hannah Cockroft, English wheelchair racer
• 1991 — Diana Vickers, English singer-songwriter
• 1990 — Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer

Notable Deaths on July 30

• 2016 — Gloria DeHaven, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
• 2015 — Lynn Anderson, American singer (b. 1947)
• 2015 — Endel Lippmaa, Estonian physicist (b. 1930)
• 2015 — Francis Paul Prucha, American historian and academic (b. 1921)
• 2015 — Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (b. 1931)
• 2014 — Robert Drew, American director and producer (b. 1924)

Religious Observances on July 31

• Islamic: Urs of Imam Rabbani Ahmad al-Faruqi as-Sirhindi (ق)

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On This Day in History — July 31

• 2014 — Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
• 2012 — Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
• 2007 — Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
• 2006 — Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
• 1999 — Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
• 1992 — The nation of Georgia joins the United Nations.

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Notable Births on July 31

• 1992 — José Fernández, Cuban baseball player (d. 2016)
• 1992 — Ryan Johansen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 — Kyle Larson, American race car driver
• 1991 — Réka Luca Jani, Hungarian tennis player
• 1989 — Victoria Azarenka, Belorussian tennis player
• 1988 — Alex Glenn, New Zealand rugby league player

Notable Deaths on July 31

• 2017 — Jeanne Moreau, French actress (b. 1928)
• 2016 — Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 58th Yokozuna (b. 1955)
• 2016 — Seymour Papert, South African mathematician (b. 1928)
• 2015 — Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (b. 1940)
• 2015 — Howard W. Jones, American surgeon and academic (b. 1910)
• 2015 — Billy Pierce, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1927)