June 30th

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"June 30th"

June 30th is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 184 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events:

1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.

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.

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.

1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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.

1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.

1917 – World War I: Greece declares war on the Central Powers.

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.

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.

1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.

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.

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.

1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

 

Births:

1470 – Charles VIII of France, King of France (d. 1498)

1890 – Paul Boffa, Maltese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1962)

1893 – Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)

1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress and singer (d. 1975)

1917 – Lena Horne, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2010)

1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 2007)

1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)

1954 – Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia

1955 – David Alan Grier, American actor, screenwriter, and producer

1963 – Rupert Graves, English actor

1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor

1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer and actress

1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer

1986 – Jamai Loman, Dutch singer and actor

 

Deaths:

350 – Nepotianus, Roman ruler

1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (b. 1696)

1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)

1934 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)

1973 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (b. 1903)

1984 – Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright (b. 1905)

1995 – Phyllis Hyman, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1949)

2003 – Buddy Hackett, American actor (b. 1924)

2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)

 

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 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium in 1960.

Philippine–Spanish Friendship Day (Philippines)

 ^ Today is my birthday and I wanted to see what else happened today in history. Who was born. Who died and what events took place. ^

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