Holidays Calendar for July 30, 2024
Throne Day, also known as Feast of the Throne, is a public holiday in Morocco that commemorates the enthronement of the incumbent monarch. Since 1999, it has been celebrated on July 30.
Martyrs' Day in South Sudan is observed on July 30. It is a public holiday and a remembrance day that commemorates the death anniversary of John Garang de Mabior who is widely considered the most influential person in the history of South Sudan.
The Republic of Vanuatu celebrates its Independence Day on July 30. It is a public holiday that commemorates the country’s independence from the United Kingdom and France in 1980.
World Snorkeling Day is celebrated every July 30 in honor of a popular underwater recreational activity that doesn’t require any particular skill or effort (as long as you know how to swim) or expensive equipment.
In 2024, two beloved sci-fi franchises, Doctor Who and Star Trek, came together to celebrate the inaugural Intergalactic Friendship Day. It was inspired by the International Day of Friendship, a United Nations observance held annually on July 30.
Tajikistani firefighters celebrate their professional holiday, Fire Department Employees Day, annually on July 30. It was officially established by the law of Tajikistan “On Holidays”, adopted in 1995.
July 30 is Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution in Cuba. It honors those who fell victims to the dictatorial regime of Fulgencio Batista. This particular date was chosen to commemorate the Cuban revolutionary Frank País.
Since Malaysia is a federation, it has state-level holidays in addition to federal holidays. For instance, each state celebrates the birthday of the head of state (sultan, rajah or governor). Sultan of Pahang’s birthday, for example, is observed on July 30.
National Cheesecake Day is celebrated across the United States on July 30. It is the perfect occasion to have a slice of one of America's favorite desserts which comes in different varieties.
July 30 is a perfect day to spend some quality time with your spouse’s father because it is National Father-in-Law Day. The holiday was created to celebrate the role fathers-in-law play in our lives.
Book lovers around the globe celebrate Paperback Book Day on July 30 every year. This fun holiday was created to honor books in soft covers that are popular due to their convenience and affordability.
In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared July 30 as International Day of Friendship. This observance focuses on celebrating friendship between individuals, cultures, countries, and peoples as a means of building bridges between communities and inspiring peace efforts.
World Day against Trafficking in Persons is an official United Nations observance held on July 30. It was established in 2013 by the UN General Assembly. The observance focuses on raising awareness of human trafficking and the importance of stopping it.
National Whistleblower Appreciation Day is an annual U.S. observance held on July 30. It was established by the U.S. Senate in 2018.
National Support Public Education Day is observed annually on July 30. It was created to raise awareness of the importance of public schools, the challenges they face, and the issues of the public education system that need to be resolved.
Festivals on July 30, 2024
- Crop Over in Bridgetown, Barbados
- Playtime in New York, USA
- Pichelsteiner Festival in Regen, Germany
- National Balloon Classic in Indianola, USA
- Antigua Carnival in St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda
- Anguilla Summer Festival in The Valley, Anguilla
- Salzburg Festival in Salzburg, Austria
- Boryeong Mud Festival in Boryeong, South Korea
- Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire in Snohomish, USA
- International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama in Paphos, Cyprus
- Qingdao International Beer Festival in Qingdao, China
- Verbier Festival in Verbier, Switzerland
- Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada
- Venice International Festival of Contemporary Dance (Biennale Danza) in Venice, Italy
- Jazz in Marciac in Marciac, France
This Day in History
- 2022 Died: Nichelle Nichols, American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal of Uhura in the Star Trek franchise was groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television.
- 2020 NASA mission Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral. It landed in the Martian crater Jezero on February 18, 2021.
- 2007 Died: Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter, one of the most accomplished and influential auteurs of all time. His best-known works include The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny and Alexander.
- 2007 Died: Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter, best remembered for his trilogy on modernity and its discontents (L'Avventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse).
- 1999 Born: Joey King, American actress. She gained wide recognition for her lead role as a late-blooming teenager in The Kissing Booth film series.
- 1992 Died: Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, best known as the co-creator of the DC Comics character Superman, who made his first appearance in 1938.
- 1990 Born: Eliot Sumner, English singer, songwriter and actor, the child of Sting and Trudie Styler. They are known for portraying Freddie Miles in the Netflix miniseries Ripley.
- 1984 Born: Gina Rodriguez, American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Jane Villanueva in The CW satirical romantic dramedy series Jane the Virgin.
- 1982 Born: Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress. She is known for roles as Hannah McKay in Dexter, Kate Morgan in 24: Live Another Day, and Serena Joy Waterford in The Handmaid's Tale.
- 1978 Okinawa Prefecture in Japan changed its traffic from the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
- 1974 Born: Hilary Swank, American actress and film producer. She came to international recognition for her performances as Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry and as Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby.
- 1971 An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collided over Morioka, Iwate, Japan. 162 people were killed.
- 1970 Born: Christopher Nolan, British and American filmmaker whose best-known works include The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer.
- 1965 Died: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. He was one of six authors on the final shortlist for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.
- 1963 Born: Lisa Kudrow, American actress, screenwriter, and producer, best known for role as Phoebe Buffay on the televisions series Friends. This role brought her an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
- 1961 Born: Laurence Fishburne, American actor and producer, best know for his role as Morpheus in Matrix and as the first African-American to portray Othello in a motion picture.
- 1956 Born: Delta Burke, American actress, singer, and producer, best known for role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the CBS comedy series Designing Women.
- 1948 Born: Jean Reno, French actor, best known for his roles in Crimson Rivers, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, The Pink Panther, Ronin, Les visiteurs, The Big Blue, and Léon.
- 1947 Born: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate for the discovery of HIV.
- 1947 Born: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, the 38th Governor of California. He rose to fame as a Hollywood action film icon, starring in Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, Predator, and other films.
- 1945 Born: Patrick Modiano, French author and screenwriter who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation."
- 1945 USS Indianapolis was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58 during World War II. 883 seamen were killed.
- 1941 Born: Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known for his hit songs including "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "(You're) Having My Baby".
- 1932 Flowers and Trees, the first Walt Disney's cartoon short to use Technicolor, premiered. It became the first cartoon short to win an Academy Award.
- 1930 Died: Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer and businessman, known as the founder of several football clubs, most notably FC Basel, FC Zürich, and FC Barcelona.
- 1930 The Uruguay national football team won the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. The event was held in Montevideo.
- 1912 Died: Emperor Meiji (Mutsuhito), the 122nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign is associated with the Meiji Restoration.
- 1898 Died: Otto von Bismarck, Prussian statesman and diplomat who oversaw the unification of Germany. His firm governance resulted in him being popularly known as the Iron Chancellor.
- 1865 The steamboat Brother Jonathan sank off the coast of Crescent City, California. 225 passengers were killed. During the last voyage the vessel was loaded with crates of gold that was valued at $50 million in today's dollars.
- 1863 Born: Henry Ford, American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans.
- 1863 Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) signed the Treaty of Box Elder. It was adopted after a period of conflict which included the Bear River Massacre.
- 1818 Born: Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
- 1811 Died: Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican priest and soldier, leader of the Mexican War of Independence. He was executed by a firing squad at Chihuahua.
- 1718 Died: William Penn, English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.
- 1683 Died: Maria Theresa of Spain, Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 as the wife of King Louis XIV. She was born an Infanta of Spain and Portugal and was also an Archduchess of Austria.
- 1656 Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeated the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Warsaw.
- 1629 A powerful earthquake in Naples, Italy caused the deaths of about 10,000 people.
- 1419 The First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites killed seven members of the Prague city council by throwing them out of a window.