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Events

• 30 BC Mark Antony wins a final cavalry battle against Octavian in the battle of Alexandria, but his infantry is defeated and the next day his fleet and troops start to desert to Octavian.
• 762 (1264 years ago) Baghdad is founded.
• 1419 (607 years ago) First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
• 1502 (524 years ago) Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
• 1756 (270 years ago) In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
• 1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
• 1980 (46 years ago) Vanuatu gains independence.

Births

• 1511 (515 years ago) Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (died 1574)
• 1818 (208 years ago) Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1848)
• 1863 (163 years ago) Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (died 1947)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Patrick Modiano, French novelist and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 (79 years ago) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California
• 1947 (79 years ago) Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1970 (56 years ago) Christopher Nolan, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 (52 years ago) Hilary Swank, American actress and producer

Deaths

• 579 (1447 years ago) Pope Benedict I,
• 1718 (308 years ago) William Penn, English businessman and philosopher, founded the Province of Pennsylvania (born 1644)
• 1811 (215 years ago) Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and soldier (born 1753)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1815)
• 1912 (114 years ago) Emperor Meiji of Japan,
• 1996 (30 years ago) Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (born 1903)
• 2007 (19 years ago) Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1918)
• 2007 (19 years ago) Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1912)

All 352 events, births and deaths of July 30