June 30
(Redirected from 30 June)
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.
Template:JuneCalendar2008
Table of contents |
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
- 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
June 29 – July 1 – May 30 – July 30 — listing of all days
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
Categories: Days