Boeing Type Passenger Aircraft Collided With A Japanese Fighter

July 30 is the 211nd (212rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 154 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

30 July 1869 Rumeli railway construction began exploration work.

Events

1629 – Earthquake in Naples (Italy): 10.000 dead.
1688 – Siege of Belgrade: Ottoman-dominated Belgrade was besieged by forces led by the Holy Roman Empire and captured the city on September 8.
1811 – Priest Miguel Hidalgo is shot in Mexico. Hidalgo had launched the independence movement in Mexico a year ago.
1932 - Summer Olympics started in Los Angeles.
1966 – United States aircraft bombard the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam.
1966 – United Kingdom defeated Germany 4-2 to become World Football Champions.
1971 – A Boeing 727 Japanese national passenger plane collided with a Japanese warplane over Morioka (Japan): 162 people were killed.
1995 – A series of agreements ending the war between Chechnya and Russia were signed in Grozny.
2002 – A peace agreement is signed between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in an effort to end the war that has destabilized Central Africa and killed millions.

Births

1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect (d. 1574)
1569 – Charles I, prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1627)
1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (sister to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) (d. 1829)
1818 – Emily (Jane) Brontë, English writer (d. 1848)
1828 – William Edwin Brooks, Irish ornithologist (d. 1899)
1863 Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (d. 1947)
1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
1922 – Turhan Selçuk, Turkish cartoonist (d. 2010)
1931 – Brian Clemens, English screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 2015)
1932 – Edd Byrnes, American actor and singer (d. 2020)
1936 – Buddy Guy, five Grammy-winning American blues guitarist and singer
1936 – Pilar, older sister of King Juan Carlos I (d. 2020)
1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician
1939 – Güneri Cıvaoğlu, Turkish journalist
1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American film director, producer, screenwriter, critic, actor, and historian (d. 2022)
1940 - Clive Sinclair, English inventor
1941 – Paul Anka, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter
1944 – Frances de la Tour, French-English actress
1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist and 2014 Nobel Prize winner for Literature
1947 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist
1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American actor, athlete, and politician
1948 – Jean Reno, French actor
1948 – Otis Taylor, American blues singer
1956 - Delta Burke, American actress
1957 – Nery Pumpido, Argentine national football player and manager
1958 – Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
1960 – Richard Linklater, American director, filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor
1961 – Laurence Fishburne, American filmmaker, director, and actor
1962 – Alphan Manas, Turkish entrepreneur and businessman
1963 – Antoni Martí, Andorran architect and politician
1963 – Chris Mullin, American basketball player
1963 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress
1964 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress
1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German football player and manager
1966 Kerry Fox, New Zealand actress
1967 – Derya Taşçı Özyer, Turkish basketball player and coach
1968 – Terry Crews, American comedian, actor, and former professional football player
1968 – Cengiz Küçükayvaz, Turkish actor
1968 – Robert Korzeniowski, Polish hiker
1968 – Sean Moore, Welsh musician
1969 – Simon Baker, Australian actor
1970 – Dean Edwards, American stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer, musician, and voice actor
1970 – Christopher Nolan, English film director
1973 – Ümit Davala, Turkish football player
1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian singer
1974 – Radostin Kishev, Bulgarian national football player
1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress and winner of two Academy Awards
1975 – Cherie Priest, American writer
1977 – Jaime Pressly, American film and television actor
1977 – Bootsy Thornton, American basketball player
1979 - Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican former basketball player and singer
1980 – Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
1982 – Nesrin Cavadzade, Azerbaijani-born Turkish TV and movie actress
1982 – Jihad al-Hussein, former Syrian national football player
1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
1984 – Gupse Özay, Turkish actress and screenwriter
1987 – Luca Lanotte, Italian figure skater
1987 – Rafael Amorim, Brazilian football player
1993 – André Gomes, Portuguese national football player
1994
- Joey King, American child actor and pop music singer
- Jürgen Klinsmann, German football player
1999 – Joey King, American child actor and pop singer
2000 – Jannine Weigel, Singer and actress

Deaths

303 – Julitte from Kayseri, a Christian martyr (b. ?)
1286 – Bar Hebraeus, philosopher, historian, poet, grammarian, commentator, theologian, and Syriac Catholicos of the time (b. 1225)
1585 – Niccolò da Ponte, 87th Duke of the Republic of Venice (b. 1491)
1683 – Maria Theresa, Queen of France (b. 1638)
1718 – William Penn, English entrepreneur, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1644)
1811 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican Catholic priest (b. 1753)
1871 – Max Bezzel, German chess player (b. 1824)
1898 – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815)
1900 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893-1900 (b. 1844)
1912 – Emperor Meiji, Emperor of Japan (b. 1852)
1916 – Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, German medical doctor (founder of gonorrhea) (b. 1855)
1930 – Joan Gamper, Swiss football player (b. 1877)
1969 – Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish philosopher (b. 1894)
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (b. 1913)
1985 – Julia Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
1990 – Hüseyin Peyda, Turkish film actor (b. 1919)
1996 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (b. 1903)
1997 – Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1913)
2005 – John Garang, South Sudanese politician and rebel leader (b. 1945)
2006 – Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1946)
2006 – Murray Bookchin, American author (b. 1921)
2007 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish playwright and film director (b. 1918)
2007 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
2009 – Mohammed Yusuf, founder of Boko Haram (b. 1970)
2012 – Maeve Binchy, Irish journalist, short story writer, and novelist (b. 1940)
2013 – Robert N. Bellah, American sociologist (b. 1927)
2013 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish former coach and national goalkeeper (b. 1924)
2014 – Dick Smith, American make-up artist (b. 1922)
2015 – Lynn Anderson, American singer (b. 1947)
2015 – Pervin Par, Turkish film actor (b. 1939)
2016 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
2016 – Dave Schwartz, former American meteorologist (b. 1953)
2017 – Tato Cifuentes, Chilean-born Argentine actor, singer and puppeteer (b. 1925)
2017 – Slim Mahfoudh, Tunisian actor (b. 1942)
2017 – Anton Vratuša, Slovenian politician and diplomat (b. 1915)
2018 – Andreas Kappes, German cyclist (b. 1965)
2018 – Finn Tveter, Norwegian lawyer and rowing athlete (b. 1947)
2019 – Marcian Bleahu, Romanian geologist, speleologist, geographer, mountaineer, explorer, writer, and politician (b. 1924)
2020 – Karen Berg, American author, activist, and businessperson (b. 1942)
2020 – Maarten Biesheuvel, Dutch writer (b. 1939)
2020 – Herman Cain, American businessman (b. 1945)
2020 – Somen Mitra, Indian politician (b. 1941)
2020 – Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician (b. 1923)
2021 – Hüseyin Avni Coş, Turkish bureaucrat (b. 1959)
2021 – Shona Ferguson, Botswana-born South African director, producer, actress and businessperson (b. 1974)
2021 – Rachel Oniga, Nigerian actress (b. 1957)
2021 – Jay Pickett, American actor (b. 1961)
2021 – Martha Sánchez Néstor, Mexican feminist and human rights activist (b. 1974)
2021 – Italo Vassalo, Ethiopian national football player of Eritrean descent (b. 1940)
2021 – Hyacinth Wijeratne, Sri Lankan theater, film and television actress (b. 1946)
2022 – Pat Carroll, American actress and comedian (b. 1927)
2022 – Nichelle Nichols, American singer, actress, and dubbing artist (b. 1932)