So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

July 30th


- Christian Feast Day:
- Feast of the Throne (Morocco)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Vanuatu from the United Kingdom and France in 1980.

July 30th


- 2006 - The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
- 2006 - Lebanon War: At least 28 civilians, including 16 children are killed by the Israeli Air Force in what Lebanese call the Second Qana massacre and what Israel considers to be an attempt to stop rockets' being fired, from Lebanon, at Israeli civilian targets.
- 2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
- 1980 - Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law
- 1980 - Vanuatu gains independence.
- 1978 - The 730 (transport), Okinawa changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
- 1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again, and will be declared legally dead on this date in .
- 1975 - The Troubles: three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland (see Miami Showband killings).
- 1974 - Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court.
- 1974 - Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets are killed and fifty-four are injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp.
- 1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
- 1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguy?n V?n Thi?u and U.S. military commanders.
- 1965 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
- 1956 - A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.
- 1945 - World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
- 1932 - Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
- 1930 - In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
- 1916 - Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- 1871 - The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
- 1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
- 1863 - Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, agreeing to stop the harassment of emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
- 1859 - First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
- 1825 - Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
- 1811 - Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua, Mexico.
- 1756 - In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
- 1733 - The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
- 1729 - Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1629 - An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
- 1619 - In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
- 1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
- 1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
- 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
- 762 - Baghdad is founded by caliph Al-Mansur.

July 30th


- 2002 - Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal
- 1999 - Joey King, American actress
- 1991 - Diana Vickers, English singer and stage actress
- 1990 - Coco Sumner, Italy-born English singer-songwriter and guitarist, daughter of Sting
- 1985 - Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
- 1984 - Gabrielle Christian, American actress
- 1984 - Kevin Pittsnogle, American basketball player
- 1983 - Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
- 1982 - James Anderson, English cricketer
- 1982 - Jehad Al-Hussain, Syrian footballer
- 1982 - Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress
- 1981 - Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
- 1981 - Juan Smith, South African rugby player
- 1980 - Sara Anzanello, Italian volleyball player
- 1980 - Justin Rose, British golfer
- 1980 - Chuck Thomas, British TV producer and presenter
- 1979 - Carlos Arroyo, Puerto Rican basketball player
- 1979 - Show Luo, Taiwanese singer, television host, dancer and actor
- 1979 - Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish golfer
- 1977 - Diana Bolocco, Chilean television presenter
- 1977 - James Branaman, American model and reality show contestant (The Amazing Race)
- 1977 - Jaime Pressly, American actress
- 1977 - Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
- 1975 - Graham Nicholls, English artist
- 1975 - Cherie Priest, American writer
- 1974 - Sandra Diaz-Twine, American winner of Survivor: Pearl Islands and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villians
- 1974 - Radostin Kishishev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1974 - Jason Robinson, English dual-code rugby player
- 1974 - Hilary Swank, American actress
- 1973 - Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1973 - Sonu Nigam, Indian singer and actor
- 1971 - Sagi Kalev, Israeli-born American bodybuilder
- 1971 - Christine Taylor, American actress
- 1971 - Elvis Crespo, Puerto Rican singer
- 1971 - Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
- 1970 - Dean Edwards, American comedian
- 1970 - Christopher Nolan, English film director
- 1969 - Simon Baker, Australian actor
- 1969 - Errol Stewart, South African cricketer and lawyer
- 1968 - Terry Crews, American football player and actor
- 1968 - Robert Korzeniowski, Polish racewalker
- 1968 - Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
- 1966 - Allan Langer, Australian Rugby League Player
- 1965 - Tim Munton, England cricketer
- 1964 - Vivica A. Fox, American actress
- 1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager
- 1964 - Alek Keshishian, Lebanese-born American film director
- 1963 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress
- 1963 - Chris Mullin, American basketball player
- 1962 - Alton Brown, American television host and chef
- 1962 - Jay Feaster, American National Hockey League executive
- 1961 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor
- 1960 - Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
- 1958 - Kate Bush, English singer-songwriter
- 1958 - Neal McCoy, American singer-songwriter and humanitarian
- 1958 - Daley Thompson, English decathlete
- 1957 - Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
- 1957 - Bill Cartwright, American basketball player
- 1957 - Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
- 1957 - Rat Scabies, English drummer (The Damned)
- 1956 - Delta Burke, American actress
- 1956 - Réal Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 - Anita Hill, American academic, witness at the sexual harassment trial against Clarence Thomas
- 1956 - Soraida Martinez, American painter, creator of Verdadism
- 1954 - Ken Olin, American actor
- 1951 - Alan Kourie, South African cricketer
- 1950 - Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
- 1949 - Duck Baker, American guitarist
- 1948 - Jean Reno, Moroccan-born French actor
- 1948 - Otis Taylor, American musician
- 1948 - Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer and pianist (d. 2010)
- 1947 - William Atherton, American actor
- 1947 - Jonathan Mann, American AIDS activist (d. 1998)
- 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and politician, 38th Governor of California
- 1946 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
- 1945 - Patrick Modiano, French novelist
- 1945 - David Sanborn, American saxophonist
- 1943 - Henri-François Gautrin, Quebec politician
- 1941 - Paul Anka, Canadian singer and composer
- 1940 - Pat Schroeder, American politician
- 1940 - Sir Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor
- 1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
- 1939 - Eleanor Smeal, American feminist
- 1938 - Hervé de Charette, French politician
- 1936 - Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
- 1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain
- 1936 - Ralph Taeger, American actor
- 1934 - Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
- 1933 - Edd Byrnes, American actor
- 1929 - Sid Krofft, Canadian children's television producer
- 1928 - Eunice Muñoz, Portuguese actress
- 1928 - Joe Nuxhall, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
- 1927 - Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (d. 2004)
- 1927 - Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
- 1925 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (d. 1984)
- 1925 - Jacques Sernas, French actor
- 1922 - Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
- 1921 - Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)
- 1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
- 1916 - Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1914 - Lord Killanin, Irish IOC president (d. 1999)
- 1910 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d. 2003)
- 1909 - C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993)
- 1909 - Magda Schneider German actress (d. 1996).
- 1904 - Salvador Novo, Mexican writer (d. 1974)
- 1901 - Alfred Lépine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1955)
- 1899 - Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
- 1895 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (d. 1963)
- 1893 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political activist, sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and "Mother of the Nation" (d. 1967)
- 1890 - Casey Stengel, American baseball manager (d. 1975)
- 1889 - Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist (d. 1982)
- 1881 - Smedley Butler, American Marine general (d. 1940)
- 1872 - Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
- 1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
- 1859 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian (d. 1939)
- 1857 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
- 1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
- 1825 - Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor, academic and memoirs writer (d. 1893)
- 1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
- 1818 - Jan Heemskerk, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1897)
- 1809 - Charles Chiniquy, Quebec excommunicated Catholic priest (d. 1899)
- 1763 - Samuel Rogers, English poet (d. 1855)
- 1751 - Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
- 1641 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1673)
- 1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
- 1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, biographer, art historian and architect (d. 1574)