30 July

Giorgio Vasari
30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574
Italian Mannerist architect and artist – wrote The lives of the Most Eminent Painters (about Italian Renaissance artists). Paintings can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Louvre, Paris; Royal Collection, London; State Museums of Florence, Italy; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. » more

Regnier de Graaf
30 July 1641 – 17 August 1673
Dutch doctor who extensively researched the biology of reproduction. » more

Emile Brontë
30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848
English author and novelist who wrote ‘Wuthering Heights’. » more

Chaim Aronson
30 July 1825 – 22 April 1893
Lithuanian inventor, developed clockwork calculators. » more

Georg Wilhelm von Siemens
30 July 1855 – 14 October 1919
Telecommunications engineer founded Siemens & Halske, telegraphic equipment and construction company in Germany. » more

Henry Ford
30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947
Industrialist and automobile manufacturer. Developed the process of mass production manufacturing. » more

Vladimir Zworykin
30 July 1889 – 29 July 1982
Russian born electronics engineer who invented essential components of the modern television, including the use of the cathode ray tube. » more

Henry Moore
30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986
English sculptor. Works can be seen in House of Lords and near Tate Britain in London. » more

Grant Johannesen
30 July 1921 – 27 March 2005
American pianist and member of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. » more

Today’s National Day
30 July – Morocco and Vanuatu.

Today’s Quote
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
 … Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Today’s No. 1 Hit
1999 – Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera.

Today’s events
30 July 762 – Foundation of the city of Baghdad.
30 July 1792 – Debut of the Marseillaise as the French national anthem.
30 July 1844 – Foundation of the New York Yacht Club, instigator of the America’s Cup sailing regatta.
30 July 1859 – The Grand Combin (Swiss Alps highest mountain) is conquered by a mountaineering team led by Charles Sainte-Claire Deville.
30 July 1908 – The New York to Paris around-the-world automobile race ends with George Schuster winning. The race was immortalised in the 1965 film ‘The Great Race’.
30 July 1932 – The first technicolor cartoon (Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees) premieres. It was also the first Academy Award winning cartoon.
30 July 1935 – Penguin Books established, beginning a new era in paperback books.