Date | Text | |||
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100 years anniversary | ||||
30 Jul 1924 | Christopher Shaw: Composer | |||
30 Jul 1924 | George Savitsky, American football player (d. 2012) | |||
30 Jul 1924 | William Gass Fargo, ND, novelist, philosopher (Omensetter's Luck) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
30 Jul 1949 | Joyce Jones: US singer (1st Choice) | |||
30 Jul 1949 | British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff | |||
30 Jul 1949 | Duck Baker, American guitarist | |||
30 Jul 1949 | Sonia Proudman, English lawyer and judge | |||
30 Jul 1949 | birth Andy Scott, guitar, Sweet, (1973 UK No.1 single 'Blockbuster', plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles). Sweet scored four top-ten hits in the US: Little Willy, Ballroom Blitz, Fox On The Run, and Love Is Like Oxygen. | |||
30 Jul 1949 | birth Joyce Jones, singer, First Choice, (1973 UK No.9 single 'Smarty Pants). | |||
30 Jul 1949 | birth Hugh Nicholson, Marmalade, (1969 UK No.1 single 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da''). | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
30 Jul 1974 | Lev Konstantinovich Knipper: Composer, dies at 75 | |||
30 Jul 1974 | House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd and last charge of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up | |||
30 Jul 1974 | Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer and manager | |||
30 Jul 1974 | Ando Meritee, Estonian renju player | |||
30 Jul 1974 | Jason Robinson, English rugby player and coach | |||
30 Jul 1974 | Hilary Swank, American actress and producer | |||
30 Jul 1974 | Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States. | |||
30 Jul 1974 | Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp. | |||
30 Jul 1974 | Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played The Troubadour in Los Angeles, California on a double bill with Roger McGuinn from The Byrds. | |||
30 Jul 1974 | House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment of Nixon | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
30 Jul 1999 | Joey King, American actress | |||
30 Jul 1999 | Neil Currie, Australian public servant (b. 1926) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
30 Jul 2004 | Andre Noble, Canadian actor (b. 1979) | |||
30 Jul 2004
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (biology) Marine biologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute announce in the journal Science the discovery of the genus Osedax, deep sea worms that feed on lipids in decaying whale carcasses. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
30 Jul 2009 | Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian militant leader, founded Boko Haram (b. 1970) | |||
30 Jul 2009 | Peter Zadek, German director and screenwriter (b. 1926) | |||
30 Jul 2009 | Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher won his long battle to be recognised as co-writer of the band's hit Whiter Shade of Pale. Law Lords ruled that Fisher, who claimed he wrote the song's organ melody, was entitled to a share of future royalties. In 2006, the High Court ruled he was entitled to 40% of the copyright, but the Court Of Appeal overturned the ruling in 2008 saying he waited too long, 38 years, to bring the case to court. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
30 Jul 2014 | Robert Drew, American director and producer (b. 1924) | |||
30 Jul 2014 | Harun Farocki, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944) | |||
30 Jul 2014 | Julio Grondona, Argentinian businessman (b. 1931) | |||
30 Jul 2014 | Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (b. 1932) | |||
30 Jul 2014 | Shūsei Nakamura, Japanese voice actor (b. 1935) | |||
30 Jul 2014 | Dick Smith, American make-up artist (b. 1922) | |||
30 Jul 2014 | Nini Stoltenberg, Norwegian activist (b. 1963) | |||
30 Jul 2014 | Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Frost) (b. 1942) | |||
30 Jul 2014 | A ban on steel-string guitars in prison cells in England and Wales was reversed after a campaign including Billy Bragg, David Gilmour, Elbow's Guy Garvey and Johnny Marr. Billy Bragg founded Jail Guitar Doors, a scheme that has sent around 350 guitars to prisons since 2007. |