July 30

July 30

Events

• 762 – Baghdad is founded.

• 1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

• 2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• 2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
• 2014 – Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.

Births

• 1893 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (d. 1967)

• 1962 – Yakub Memon, Indian accountant and terrorist (d. 2015)

• 1964 – Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1973 – Sonu Nigam, Indian playback singer and actor

• 1979 – Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist (d. 2012)

• 1982 – Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer

• 1994 – Nelydia Senrose, Malaysian actress

Deaths

• 1286 – Bar Hebraeus, Syrian scholar and historian (b. 1226)

• 2005 – John Garang, Sudanese colonel and politician, 6th President of South Sudan (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Duygu Asena, Turkish journalist and author(b. 1946)

• 2006 – Akbar Mohammadi, Iranian activist (b. 1972)

• 2009 – Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian militant leader, founded Boko Haram (b. 1970)

• 2014 – Harun Farocki, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)

Holidays and Observances