On This Day
30 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1957 Balachandran Chullikkadu, Malayalam poet, orator, lyricist and film actor, was born
- 2012 A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
- 2024 At least 231 people are killed, 397 injured and 118 missing following landslides in Wayanad district, Kerala.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 0762 The city of Baghdad is founded.
- 1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
- 1921 Insulin was first isolated as a pancreatic extract by the Canadian scientists Sir Frederick G. Banting and Charles H. Best.
- 1931 Dominique Lapierre, French historian and author was born.
- 1935 First Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
- 1945 The USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine shortly after delivering the internal components of the atomic bombs that were later dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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