Historical timeline for July 30

Around 50,000 Moroccan nationals storm the borders of Spanish enclaves in Africa, principally the city of Ceuta. As of August 1, 2026, 67 are confirmed to have died while crossing.

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission is launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.

A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.

An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.

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.

In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.

Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, take to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

Vanuatu gains independence.

The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

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.

Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162.