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.
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Births [change]
- 1470 – King Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
- 1503 – John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
- 1685 – John Gay, English writer (d. 1732)
- 1685 – Dominikus Zimmermann, master builder (d. 1766)
- 1755 – Paul de Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
- 1768 – Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady of the United States (d. 1830)
- 1789 – Horace Vernet, painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
- 1807 – Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (d. 1887)
- 1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
- 1819 – William A. Wheeler, Vice President of the United States (d. 1887)
- 1833 – Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (d. 1909)
- 1843 – Ernest Mason Satow, author (d. 1929)
- 1884 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (d. 1966)
- 1891 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
- 1891 – Ed Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
- 1892 – Bo Carter, American blues musician (d. 1962)
- 1892 – Oswald Pohl, Nazi politician (d. 1951)
- 1893 – Walter Ulbricht, East German politician (d. 1973)
- 1899 – Harry Shields, American jazz musician (d. 1971)
- 1899 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1906 – Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
- 1906 – Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
- 1907 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
- 1908 – Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)
- 1909 – Juan Bosch, Dominic Republic politician (d. 2001)
- 1911 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2004)
- 1913 – Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, President of Colombia (d. 2007)
- 1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese politician (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Allan Houser, Native American artist (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
- 1917 – Lena Horne, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
- 1921 – Oswaldo Lopez Arellano, President of Honduras (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Peter Alexander, Austrian singer and actor (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Paul Berg, American biochemist
- 1933 – Derek Bentley, British victim of a miscarriage of Justice (d. 1953)
- 1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr.,American magician (d. 1997)
- 1936 – Assia Djetar, Algerian writer, director and historian
- 1938 – Apostolis Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
- 1939 – John Fortune, British scriptwriter and actor
- 1943 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
- 1944 – Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
- 1953 – Hal Lindes, American-born British guitarist (Dire Straits)
- 1954 – Serzh Sargsyan, President of Armenia
- 1954 – Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
- 1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer
- 1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, actor
- 1959 – Brendan Perry, musician (Dead Can Dance)
- 1960 – Jack McConnell, Scottish politician, former First Minister of Scotland
- 1962 – Tony Fernandez, American baseball player
- 1963 – Olha Bryzhina, Ukrainian athlete
- 1963 – Yngwie J. Malmsteen, guitarist
- 1964 – Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, Hong Kong-born former member of the Danish royal family
- 1965 – Gary Pallister, English footballer
- 1965 – Mitch Richmond, American basketball player
- 1966 – Cheryl Bernard, Canadian curler
- 1966 – Mike Tyson, American world champion boxer
- 1968 – Philip Anselmo, musician
- 1970 – Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer
- 1971 – Monica Potter, American actress
- 1972 – James Martin, English chef
- 1973 – Frank Rost, German footballer
- 1973 – Chan Ho Park, Korean baseball pitcher
- 1975 – Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
- 1975 – Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver
- 1977 – Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
- 1980 – Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
- 1982 – Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
- 1983 – Cheryl Cole, British singer, formerly of Girls Aloud
- 1984 – Dimitry Ipatov, Russian ski jumper
- 1984 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
- 1985 – Michael Phelps, American swimmer
- 1985 – Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
- 1985 – Charley Uchea, Reality show star
- 1986 – Allegra Versace, Italian heiress
Deaths [change]
- 350 – Nepotianus, Roman usurper
- 1520 – Moctezuma II (Montezuma), Aztec ruler (b. around 1465)
- 1619 – Simon Vouet, French painter (b. 1599)
- 1670 – Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I (b. 1644)
- 1785 – James Oglethorpe, English general (b. 1696)
- 1861 – Robert O'Hara Burke, Irish explorer of Australia (b. 1820)
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
- 1898 – Siegfried Marcus, English technician and inventor (b. 1831)
- 1919 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist (b. 1842)
- 1932 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (b. 1890)
- 1934 – Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
- 1934 – Gregor Strasser, Nazi politician (b. 1892)
- 1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
- 1934 – Karl Ernst, Sturmabteilung leader (b. 1904)
- 1934 – Erich Klausener, German politician (b. 1885)
- 1953 – Charles William Miller, British-Brazilian sportsman, considered as the 'father of Brazilian football' (b. 1874)
- 1959 – Jose Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
- 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, Italian racing driver (b. 1906)
- 1971 – Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
- 1971 – Georgi Pobrovolski, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1928)
- 1971 – Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
- 1971 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
- 1973 – Nancy Mitford, British writer and biographer (b. 1904)
- 1974 – Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1905)
- 1974 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
- 1984 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
- 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, President of Palau (b. 1933)
- 1993 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1995 – Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
- 1996 – Lakis Petropoulos, Greek footballer (b. 1932)
- 2001 – Chet Atkins, American musician and producer (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Buddy Hackett, American comedian (b. 1924)
- 2009 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
- 2011 – Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, former Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
Events [change]
- 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantian dynasty, is defeated and killed by the usurper Magnentius.
- 1559 – Henry II of France is wounded in a jousting contest against Gabriel de Montgomery.
- 1651 – Battle of Beresteczko: Victory for Poland-Lithuania.
- 1805 – The United States Congress organises the Michigan Territory.
- 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1861 – A group of 3000 European gold miners attack Chinese miners at Lambing Flat, New South Wales.
- 1864 – Abraham Lincoln grants the Yosemite Valley to California for 'public use, resort and recreation'.
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is executed for the assassination of US President James A. Garfield.
- 1894 – London Tower Bridge is opened to traffic.
- 1900 – A harbour fire in Hoboken, New Jersey spreads to five German liners, killing 326 people.
- 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' in which he introduces Special Relativity.
- 1908 – The Tunguska Incident occurs, as a large area of forest in Siberia is destroyed. The circumstances have not yet been fully explained, but it is widely believed to have been the explosion of a meteor.
- 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's purge of political rivals, begins.
- 1940 – World War II: Nazi Germany invades Guernsey in the Channel Islands, English Channel.
- 1954 – A total Solar eclipse is seen over parts of North America, Europe and Asia.
- 1960 – The present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes independent.
- 1969 – Nigeria bans Red Cross aid from Biafra.
- 1971 – The crew of Soyuz 11 are suffocated when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
- 1971 – Ohio reduces the voting age to 18.
- 1972 – The first Leap second is added to the UTC time.
- 1975 – Muhammad Ali successfully defends his Heavyweight Boxing World title, against Joe Bugner.
- 1985 – Palau's President Haruo Remeliik is murdered.
- 1985 – 39 American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut, Lebanon, after 17 days.
- 1987 – The Canadian 1 Dollar coin, the 'Loonie', is introduced.
- 1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
- 1991 – 32 miners are killed when a coal mine ctaches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
- 1996 – Germany wins the UEFA Euro 1996 Championship against the Czech Republic, with Oliver Bierhoff scoring the first-ever 'Golden Goal'.
- 2000 – The Indonesian ferry Chaya Bahara sinks off the island of Sulawesi, killing over 500 people.
- 2002 – 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea: Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup for a fifth time, over Germany, with two goals from Ronaldo.
- 2005 – Spain legalises Same-sex marriage.
- 2007 – Islamist extremists drive a jeep packed with explosives into the main building at Glasgow Airport in Scotland.
- 2009 – A Yemenia Airlines plane crashes into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.
- 2010 – Benigno Aquino III becomes President of the Philippines.
- 2010 – Christian Wulff is chosen to succeed Horst Koehler as President of Germany.
- 2012 – Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood is sworn in as President of Egypt.
Observances [change]
- Independence Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day
- Army Day (Guatemala)
