June 30

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June 30 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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Events

350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed in Rome by troops of the usurper Magnentius.

763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.

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, comte de Montgomery.

1651 – The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko 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.

1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.

1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

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

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.

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 airliners.

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 bombing: 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.

1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.

1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.

1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.

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.

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.

2013 – Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.

2015 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.

Births

156 BC – Wu of Han, seventh emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty (d. 87 BC)

1286 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English magnate (d. 1347)

1470 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)

1468 – John, Elector of Saxony (d. 1532)

1478 – John, Prince of Asturias, Son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (d. 1497)

1503 – John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)

1588 – Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist, composer, and educator (d. 1649)

1641 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English general (d. 1719)

1685 – John Gay, English poet and playwright (d. 1732)

1688 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (d. 1756)

1722 – Jiří Antonín Benda, Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeister (d. 1795)

1755 – Paul Barras, French soldier and politician (d. 1829)

1789 – Horace Vernet, French painter and academic (d. 1863)

1791 – Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (d. 1841)

1801 – Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist (d. 1850)

1803 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet, playwright, and physician (d. 1849)

1807 – Friedrich Theodor Vischer, German author, poet, and playwright (d.1887)

1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (d. 1911)

1843 – Ernest Mason Satow, English orientalist and diplomat (d. 1929)

1864 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect and archaeologist (d. 1945)

1884 – Georges Duhamel, French author and critic (d. 1966)

1889 – Archibald Frazer-Nash, English motor car designer, engineer and founder of Frazer Nash (d. 1965)

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

1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler and sergeant (d. 1953)

1891 – Ed Lewis, American wrestler and manager (d. 1966)

1891 – Stanley Spencer, English painter (d. 1959)

1892 – Pierre Blanchar, Algerian-French actor and director (d. 1963)

1892 – Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1962)

1892 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (d. 1951)

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

1895 – Heinz Warneke, German-American sculptor and educator (d. 1983)

1899 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)

1906 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (d. 1967)

1907 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (d. 1950)

1908 – Winston Graham, English author (d. 2003)

1911 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1912 – Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (d. 2003)

1912 – Dan Reeves, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1971)

1913 – Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Colombia (d. 2007)

1913 – Harry Wismer, American sportscaster (d. 1967)

1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (d. 2001)

1914 – Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (d. 1994)

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

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

1917 – Willa Kim, American costume designer (d. 2016)

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

1920 – Eleanor Ross Taylor, American poet and educator (d. 2011)

1925 – Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)

1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1926 – David Berglas, American magician and mentalist

1927 – James Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (d. 1998)

1930 – Thomas Sowell, American economist, philosopher, and author

1931 – Yo-Yo Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2013)

1931 – Andrew Hill, American pianist and composer (d. 2007)

1933 – Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (d. 2011)

1933 – M. J. K. Smith, English cricketer and rugby player

1933 – Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1933 – Joan Murrell Owens, American educator and marine biologist (d. 2011)

1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (d. 1997)

1935 – John Harlin, American pilot and mountaineer (d. 1966)

1936 – Assia Djebar, Algerian-French author and translator (d. 2015)

1936 – Nancy Dussault, American actress and singer

1936 – Tony Musante, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)

1936 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)

1937 – Larry Henley, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)

1939 – Tony Hatch, English pianist, composer, and producer

1939 – Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (d. 2016)

1939 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author (d. 2014)

1940 – Mark Spoelstra, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)

1941 – Peter Pollock, South African cricketer and author

1941 – Otto Sander, German actor and director (d. 2013)

1942 – Robert Ballard, American lieutenant and oceanographer

1942 – Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1943 – Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter

1944 – Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist and author

1944 – Glenn Shorrock, English-Australian singer-songwriter

1944 – Ron Swoboda, American baseball player and sportscaster

1949 – Uwe Kliemann, German footballer, coach, and manager

1949 – Andy Scott, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1951 – Stanley Clarke, American bass player and composer

1952 – Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician and academic

1952 – David Garrison, American actor and singer

1953 – Hal Lindes, American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1954 – Stephen Barlow, English organist, composer, and conductor

1954 – Pierre Charles, Dominican educator and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)

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

1954 – Wayne Swan, Australian academic and politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

1955 – Brian Vollmer, Canadian singer

1956 – Volker Beck, German hurdler and coach

1956 – David Lidington, English historian, academic, and politician, Minister of State for Europe

1956 – David Alan Grier, American actor, singer, and comedian

1957 – Bud Black, American baseball player and manager

1957 – Sterling Marlin, American race car driver

1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer

1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor

1959 – Daniel Goldhagen, American political scientist, author, and academic

1959 – Brendan Perry, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1959 – Sakis Tsiolis, Greek footballer and manager

1959 – Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma, Indian-English businesswoman and politician

1960 – Murray Cook, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1960 – Jack McConnell, Scottish educator and politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland

1961 – Lynne Jolitz, American computer scientist and programmer

1961 – Clive Nolan, English musician, composer and producer

1962 – Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player

1962 – Julianne Regan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1963 – Olha Bryzhina, Ukrainian sprinter

1963 – Rupert Graves, English actor, director, and screenwriter

1963 – Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist and songwriter

1964 – Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg

1964 – Mark Waters, American director and producer

1965 – Steve Duchesne, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach

1965 – Anna Levandi, Russian figure skater and coach

1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer and sportscaster

1965 – Mitch Richmond, American basketball player

1966 – Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor

1967 – Patrik Bodén, Swedish javelin thrower

1967 – David Busst, English footballer and manager

1967 – Victoria Kaspi, American-Canadian astrophysicist and academic

1968 – Phil Anselmo, American singer-songwriter and producer

1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician

1969 – Uta Rohländer, German sprinter

1969 – Sébastien Rose, Canadian director and screenwriter

1970 – Brian Bloom, American actor and screenwriter

1970 – Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer and manager

1970 – Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player and manager

1971 – Monica Potter, American actress

1972 – Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer

1972 – James Martin, English chef and journalist

1973 – Ümit Davala, Turkish footballer and manager

1973 – Chan Ho Park, South Korean baseball player

1973 – Frank Rost, German footballer and manager

1974 – Hezekiél Sepeng, South African runner

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 – Patrick Ivuti, Kenyan runner

1978 – Claudio Rivalta, Italian footballer

1979 – Matisyahu, American rapper and actor

1979 – Sylvain Chavanel, French cyclist

1980 – Rade Prica, Swedish footballer

1980 – Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer

1980 – Ryan ten Doeschate, Dutch cricketer

1981 – Can Artam, Turkish race car driver

1981 – Matt Kirk, Canadian football player

1981 – Ben Utecht, American football player

1982 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress

1982 – Ignacio Carrasco, Mexican footballer

1982 – Otis Harris, American sprinter

1982 – Andy Knowles, English drummer and producer

1982 – Mitch Maier, American baseball player

1982 – Delwyn Young, American baseball player

1983 – Marcus Burghardt, German cyclist

1983 – Cheryl, English singer, dancer and television personality

1983 – Cole Swindell, American singer-songwriter

1983 – Patrick Wolf, English singer-songwriter

1984 – Miles Austin, American football player

1984 – Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (d. 2016)

1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer-songwriter and actress

1985 – Trevor Ariza, American basketball player

1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer

1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentinian footballer

1986 – Alicia Fox, American wrestler, model, and actress

1986 – Fredy Guarín, Colombian footballer

1986 – Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer

1986 – Allegra Versace, Italian-American businesswoman

1987 – Ryan Cook, American baseball player

1987 – Andrew Hedgman, New Zealand runner

1988 – Jack Douglass, American YouTuber

1988 – Jeff Kobernus, American baseball player

1989 – Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan runner

1989 – Steffen Liebig, German rugby player

1989 – David Myers, Australian footballer

1989 – Miguel Vítor, Portuguese footballer

1993 – Patrick Rastner, Italian luger

1994 – Rhys Jones, Welsh sprinter

1997 – Iryna Shymanovich, Belarusian tennis player

1998 – Tom Davies, English footballer

Deaths

350 – Nepotianus, Roman ruler

710 – Erentrude, Frankish abbess

888 – Æthelred, archbishop of Canterbury

1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, Welsh politician (b. 1147)

1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, German monk and bishop (b. 1185)

1278 – Pierre de la Broce, French courtier

1364 – Arnošt of Pardubice, Czech archbishop (b. 1297)

1468 – Lady Eleanor Talbot, English noblewoman

1538 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)

1522 – Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (b. 1455)

1607 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)

1660 – William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (b. 1575)

1666 – Alexander Brome, English poet and playwright (b. 1620)

1670 – Henrietta of England (b. 1644)

1704 – John Quelch, English pirate (b. 1665)

1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)

1709 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh botanist, linguist, and geographer (b. 1660)

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

1796 – Abraham Yates Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1724)

1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1802)

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

1882 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)

1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American organist and composer (b. 1819)

1913 – Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (b. 1873)

1917 – Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator (b. 1861)

1917 – Dadabhai Naoroji, Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader (b. 1825)

1919 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)

1932 – Bruno Kastner, German actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890)

1934 – Karl Ernst, German soldier (b. 1904)

1934 – Erich Klausener, German soldier and politician (b. 1885)

1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1862)

1934 – Gregor Strasser, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1892)

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

1941 – Yefim Fomin, Belarusian politician (b. 1909)

1941 – Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1875)

1948 – Prince Sabahaddin, Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (b. 1879)

1949 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player (b. 1868)

1951 – Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach (b. 1884)

1953 – Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator (b. 1874)

1953 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer 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 philosopher 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)

1968 – Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (b. 1893)

1971 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)

1971 – Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (b. 1900)

1971 – Georgy Dobrovolsky Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (b. 1928)

1971 – Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)

1971 – Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)

1971 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935)

1973 – Nancy Mitford, English journalist and author (b. 1904)

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

1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (b. 1890)

1976 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1898)

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

1985 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)

1995 – Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian general and astronaut (b. 1921)

1995 – Gale Gordon, American actor and voice artist (b. 1906)

1996 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1932)

2001 – Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)

2001 – Joe Henderson, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1937)

2002 – Chico Xavier, Brazilian medium and author (b. 1910)

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

2003 – Robert McCloskey, American author and illustrator (b. 1915)

2007 – Sahib Singh Verma, Indian librarian and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)

2009 – Pina Bausch, German dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1940)

2009 – Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (b. 1933)

2012 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (b. 1942)

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

2012 – Michael J. Ybarra, American journalist and author (b. 1966)

2013 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (b. 1917)

2013 – Akpor Pius Ewherido, Nigerian politician (b. 1963)

2013 – Kathryn Morrison, American educator and politician (b. 1942)

2013 – Thompson Oliha, Nigerian footballer (b. 1968)

2013 – Keith Seaman, Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (b. 1920)

2014 – Frank Cashen, American businessman (b. 1925)

2014 – Paul Mazursky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)

2014 – Željko Šturanović, Montenegrin lawyer and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (b. 1960)

2015 – Charles W. Bagnal, American general (b. 1934)

2015 – Robert Dewar, English-American computer scientist and academic (b. 1945)

2015 – Arthur Porter, Canadian physician and academic (b. 1956)

2015 – Leonard Starr, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Martial

Theobald of Provins

First Martyrs of the Church of Rome

June 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Armed Forces Day (Guatemala)

Asteroid Day (International observance)

General Prayer Day (Central African Republic)

Independence Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo), celebrates the independence of Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium in 1960.

Navy Day (Israel)

Philippine–Spanish Friendship Day (Philippines)

Revolution Day (Sudan)

Teachers' Day (Dominican Republic)

References

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