June 30

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2020 (Tuesday)

2019 (Sunday)

2018 (Saturday)

2017 (Friday)

2016 (Thursday)

2015 (Tuesday)

June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 184 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
• 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
• 1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
• 1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.
• 1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.
• 1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising – the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
• 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
• 1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
• 1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
• 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
• 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
• 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
• 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
• 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
• 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
• 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
• 1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
• 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
• 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
• 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
• 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
• 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
• 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
• 1956 – A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both planes. It is the worst-ever aviation disaster at that point in time.
• 1959 – A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
• 1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.
• 1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
• 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
• 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
• 1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
• 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
• 1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
• 1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
• 1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
• 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
• 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
• 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
• 1991 – 32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
• 1991 – Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, starts "The Great Gage Park Decency Drive" picketing the park, starting their notorious picketing campaign that would later include funerals of AIDS victims and fallen American military.
• 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

Births

• 1286 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English nobleman (d. 1347)
• 1470 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
• 1503 – John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
• 1588 – Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian composer, organist, and teacher (d. 1649)
• 1641 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
• 1685 – John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
• 1755 – Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
• 1789 – Horace Vernet, French artist (d. 1863)
• 1803 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (d. 1849)
• 1807 – Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (d.1887)
• 1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (d. 1911)
• 1823 – Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
• 1843 – Ernest Mason Satow, English diplomat (d. 1929)
• 1864 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect, illustrator, and archaeologist (d. 1945)
• 1880 – Franz Kröwerath, German rower (d. 1945)
• 1884 – Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
• 1890 – Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1962)
• 1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler (d. 1953)
• 1891 – Ed Lewis, American wrestler (d. 1966)
• 1892 – Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mississippi Sheiks) (d. 1962)
• 1892 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (d. 1951)
• 1893 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
• 1899 – Harry Shields, American clarinetist (d. 1971)
• 1906 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (d. 1967)
• 1907 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
• 1908 – Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Dan Reeves, American sports team owner (d. 1971)
• 1913 – Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian politician (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Harry Wismer, American sportscaster (d. 1967)
• 1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese politician (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Allan Houser, American artist (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
• 1917 – Lena Horne, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Fred Schaus, American basketball player, coach, and executive (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1927 – Walter G. Church, Sr., American politician (d. 2012)
• 1927 – James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (d. 1998)
• 1927 – Bob Willoughby, American photographer (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Hans Krondahl, Swedish painter and designer
• 1930 – Thomas Sowell, American economist, theorist, philosopher, and author
• 1931 – Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Andrew Hill, American pianist and composer (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Lea Massari, Italian actress
• 1933 – M. J. K. Smith, English cricketer
• 1933 – Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (d. 1997)
• 1935 – John Harlin, American mountaineer (d. 1966)
• 1936 – Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and director
• 1936 – Nancy Dussault, American actress
• 1936 – Tony Musante, American actor
• 1936 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
• 1937 – Michael von Biel a German composer, cellist, and graphic artist
• 1938 – Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
• 1939 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author
• 1940 – Mark Spoelstra, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Peter Pollock, South African cricketer
• 1942 – Robert Ballard, American oceanographer
• 1942 – Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
• 1943 – Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter
• 1943 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi writer (d. 2001)
• 1944 – Terry Funk, American wrestler and actor
• 1944 – Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
• 1944 – Glenn Shorrock, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (Little River Band, The Twilights, Axiom, Esperanto, and Birtles Shorrock Goble)
• 1944 – Ron Swoboda, American baseball player
• 1947 – Barry Bremen, American businessman (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Uwe Kliemann, German footballer
• 1949 – Andy Scott, Welsh singer-songwriter and musician (Sweet)
• 1950 – Leonard Whiting, English actor
• 1951 – Stanley Clarke, American singer, musician, and composer (Return to Forever, Animal Logic, and SMV)
• 1952 – Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
• 1952 – David Garrison, American actor
• 1953 – Lin Feng-Jiao, Taiwanese actress
• 1953 – Hal Lindes, American-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer (Dire Straits)
• 1954 – Pierre Charles, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
• 1954 – Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia
• 1954 – Wayne Swan, Australian politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
• 1955 – David Alan Grier, American actor and comedian
• 1957 – Bud Black, American baseball player
• 1957 – Sterling Marlin, American race car driver
• 1957 – Rich Vos, American comedian
• 1958 – Tommy Keene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Lina Nikolakopoulou, Greek composer
• 1958 – Wilhelm Reisinger, German footballer
• 1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
• 1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
• 1959 – Brendan Perry, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Dead Can Dance and The Scavengers)
• 1959 – Sakis Tsiolis, Greek footballer and manager
• 1960 – Murray Cook, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Wiggles and Bang Shang a Lang)
• 1960 – David Headley, Pakistani American terrorist accomplice
• 1960 – Jack McConnell, Scottish politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland
• 1962 – Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
• 1962 – Deirdre Lovejoy, American actress
• 1962 – Julianne Regan, English singer-songwriter, musician, and journalist (All About Eve)
• 1963 – Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Steeler and Alcatrazz)
• 1964 – Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
• 1964 – Mark Waters, American director
• 1965 – Steve Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Anna Levandi, Russian figure skater
• 1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer
• 1965 – Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
• 1966 – Cheryl Bernard, Canadian curler
• 1966 – Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
• 1966 – Wendy Davis, American actress
• 1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor
• 1967 – David Busst, English footballer
• 1968 – Phil Anselmo, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Pantera, Arson Anthem, Down, and Superjoint Ritual)
• 1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1969 – Uta Rohländer, German sprinter
• 1970 – Brian Bloom, American actor
• 1970 – Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer
• 1970 – Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player
• 1971 – Megan Fahlenbock, Canadian actress
• 1971 – Anette Michel, Mexican actress
• 1971 – Monica Potter, American actress
• 1972 – Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer
• 1972 – James Martin, English chef
• 1973 – Robert Bales, American soldier
• 1973 – Chan-ho Park, South Korean baseball player
• 1973 – Frank Rost, German footballer
• 1973 – Noam Zylberman, Israeli-Canadian actor
• 1974 – Tony Rock, American actor and comedian
• 1975 – James Bannatyne, New Zealand footballer
• 1975 – Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver
• 1975 – Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
• 1977 – Mark Van Gisbergen, New Zealand-English rugby player
• 1977 – Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
• 1978 – Ben Cousins, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Claudio Rivalta, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Matisyahu, American rapper and activist
• 1979 – Sylvain Chavanel, French cyclist
• 1979 – Rick Gonzalez, American actor
• 1979 – Faisal Shahzad, Pakistani-American terrorist, attempted the Times Square bombing
• 1980 – Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
• 1980 – Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
• 1981 – Can Artam, Turkish race car driver
• 1981 – Matt Kirk, Canadian football player
• 1981 – Karolina Sadalska, Polish canoe racer
• 1981 – Ben Utecht, American football player
• 1982 – Willam Belli, American drag queen
• 1982 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
• 1982 – Ignacio Carrasco, Mexican footballer
• 1982 – Andy Knowles, English drummer and actor (Franz Ferdinand and Skuta)
• 1982 – Mitch Maier, American baseball player
• 1982 – Delwyn Young, American baseball player
• 1983 – Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist
• 1983 – Allari Naresh, Tollywood Film Actor
• 1983 – Cheryl Cole, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and model (Girls Aloud)
• 1983 – Marlin Jackson, American football player
• 1983 – Brendon James, English drummer (Thirteen Senses)
• 1983 – Patrick Wolf, English singer-songwriter and musician
• 1984 – Miles Austin, American football player
• 1984 – Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
• 1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer, actress, and author
• 1985 – Trevor Ariza, American basketball player
• 1985 – Rafał Blechacz, Polish pianist
• 1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
• 1985 – Cody Rhodes, American wrestler and actor
• 1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
• 1986 – Alicia Fox, American wrestler and model
• 1986 – Fredy Guarín, Colombian footballer
• 1986 – Jamai Loman, Dutch singer and actor
• 1986 – Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Hugh Sheridan, Australian actor and singer
• 1986 – Allegra Versace, Italian actress
• 1988 – Sean Marquette, American actor
• 1988 – Ryouta Murai, Japanese actor
• 1989 – Steffen Liebig, German rugby player
• 1989 – Miguel Vítor, Portuguese footballer
• 1989 – David Myers, Australian footballer
• 1991 – Kaho, Japanese actress
• 1992 – Holliston Coleman, American actress
• 1992 – Lamb Gaede, American singer (Prussian Blue)
• 1992 – Lynx Gaede, American singer (Prussian Blue)
• 1992 – Alfred Labatos, Filipino actor
• 1994 – Rhys Jones, Welsh paralympic athlete
• 1995 – Alexandra Kiick, American tennis player

Deaths

• 350 – Nepotianus, Roman ruler
• 1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
• 1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
• 1364 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Polish Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
• 1538 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
• 1579 – Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. 1506)
• 1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
• 1660 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
• 1666 – Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
• 1670 – Princess Henrietta of England (b. 1644)
• 1704 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1665)
• 1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
• 1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
• 1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, founder of the U.S. state of Georgia (b. 1696)
• 1796 – Abraham Yates, American politician (b. 1724)
• 1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
• 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
• 1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
• 1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
• 1913 – Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (b. 1873)
• 1917 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
• 1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
• 1932 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (b. 1890)
• 1934 – Karl Ernst, German nazi officer (b. 1904)
• 1934 – Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
• 1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German politician, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
• 1934 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
• 1934 – Gregor Strasser, German nazi politician (b. 1892)
• 1941 – Yefim Fomin, Soviet political commissar (b. 1909)
• 1943 – Carlo Wieth, Danish actor (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
• 1953 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian sportsman and civil servant (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
• 1956 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
• 1959 – José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
• 1961 – Lee De Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (b. 1873)
• 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
• 1971 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
• 1971 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter and director (b. 1900)
• 1971 – Georgi Dobrovolski Soviet astronaut (b. 1928)
• 1971 – Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
• 1971 – Viktor Patsayev Soviet astronaut (b. 1933)
• 1971 – Vladislav Volkov Soviet astronaut (b. 1935)
• 1973 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (b. 1903)
• 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
• 1976 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1984 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
• 1993 – Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, composer, and actor (Beyond) (b. 1962)
• 1993 – George McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1995 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet astronaut (b. 1921)
• 1995 – Gale Gordon, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress(b. 1949)
• 1996 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1932)
• 1997 – Larry O'Dea, Australian wrestler (b. 1944)
• 2000 – Robert L. Manahan, American actor (b. 1956)
• 2001 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1924)
• 2001 – Joe Henderson, American saxophonist (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian author and medium (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian and actor (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Robert McCloskey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Jamal Abro, Pakistani writer (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Robert Gernhardt, German writer (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
• 2009 – Robert DePugh, American activist (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
• 2011 – Barry Bremen, American businessman (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Richard Eardley, American politician (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Miguel S. Demapan, American jurist (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Yomo Toro, Puerto Rican musician and television host (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Ivan Sekyra, Czech rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, director and screenwriter (b. 1952)

Holidays and observances

• Army Day (Guatemala)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Martial
  • Theobald of Provins
  • First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
  • June 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• General Prayer Day (Central African Republic)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium in 1960.
• Philippine–Spanish Friendship Day (Philippines)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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