June 30
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June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, as the last day in June.
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Events
- 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko ends with Polish victory.
- 1805 - The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
- 1864 - Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation."
- 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" where he introduces special relativity.
- 1908 - Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia
- 1934 - Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany takes place.
- 1936 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published
- 1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing 128
- 1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium
- 1971 - The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through faulty valve.
- 1971 - The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to approve it.
- 1997 - China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
- 2002 - Brazil defeats Germany 2-0 in Yokohama, Japan, to earn a record fifth title in the 17th Football World Cup.
Births
- 1470 - King Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
- 1685 - John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
- 1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, master builder (d. 1766)
- 1775 - Paul de Barras, politician (d. 1829)
- 1789 - Horace Vernet, painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
- 1807 - Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (d. 1887)
- 1817 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (d. 1911)
- 1843 - Ernest Mason Satow, author (d. 1929)
- 1891 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (d. 1953)
- 1893 - Walter Ulbricht, politician (d. 1973)
- 1899 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (d. 1971)
- 1911 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2004)
- 1917 - Susan Hayward, actress (d. 1975)
- 1917 - Lena Horne, actress and singer
- 1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr., magician (d. 1997)
- 1943 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
- 1944 - Raymond Moody, parapsychologist
- 1958 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
- 1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio, actor
- 1959 - Brendan Perry, musician (Dead Can Dance)
- 1962 - Tony Fernandez, baseball player
- 1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, guitarist
- 1966 - Mike Tyson, world champion boxer
- 1968 - Philip Anselmo, musician
- 1973 - Chan Ho Park, Korean baseball pitcher
- 1975 - Ralf Schumacher, race car driver
- 1984 - Fantasia Barrino, singer
- 1985 - Michael Phelps, American swimmer
- 1985 - Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
Deaths
- 1607 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
- 1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of President of the United States James A. Garfield
- 1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi government official
- 1953 - Charles Miller, father of football in Brazil.
- 1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor
- 1971 - Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolski, and Vladislav Volkov, cosmonauts on Soyuz 11
- 1974 - Vannevar Bush, engineer and politician
- 1976 - Firpo Marberry, Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright
- 1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
- 1995 - Gale Gordon, actor
- 1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
- 2001 - Chet Atkins, country and western musician (b. 1924)
- 2003 - Buddy Hackett, American comic
- 2003 - Robert McCloskey, children's book writer and illustrator
Holidays and observances
- Democratic Republic of the Congo's Independence Day
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/30)
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