June 30

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.

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

• BBC: On This Day

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