July 30th

July 30 is the 212th day of the year.  There are 154 days remaining until the end of the year.

579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), would’ve killed himself if he could see how subsequent cloned versions of himself become degraded!

762 Caliph Abu Jafar abd-Allah al-Mansur founds Baghdad.

1839 Slave rebels take over slave ship, Amistad, rip off their shirts for their captured slavers to admire and caress the rippling muscles of their obsidian chests

1908 New York to Paris Automobile Race ends in Paris when lovers George Schuster and Montague Roberts, driving a 1907 Thomas Flyer, cum first after the 169 day orgy–I mean, ordeal

1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the US Army

1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie, Girl Crazy, is released

1963 British double agent Kim Philby is discovered in Moscow where a flag is planted in his ass and he is claimed for the Queen

1975 Teamsters’ leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears.

2006 World's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show aired for 42 years. Carl Hardwick is the Top of the Pops as far as I’m concerned. . .

1818 Emily Brontë, asexual English writer, sister, poet  

1929 Sid Krofft [Cydus Yolas], maybe gay Canadian kids TV producer  

1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born US bodybuilder/actor /Governor of California/womanizer  

1958 Richard Burgi, US actor 

1961 Laurence Fishburne, US actor 

1963 Alex Stone [David Rey], gay US pornographic actor 

1968 Terry Crews, US football player/actor/comedian  

1969 Simon Baker, Australian actor 

1971 Scott Baldwin, gay US pornographic actor 

1971 Tom Green, comic actor and personality 

1971 Sagi Kalev, Israeli bodybuilder/fitness model 

1984 Robin Van Aggele, Dutch swimmer 

1998 Buffalo Bob Smith [Robert Emil Schmidt], US tv personality/The Howdy Doody Show, quits pulling Howdy’s "strings"

2007 Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director, kommer ansikte till ansikte med Gud