June 30Birthdays & History

On this day: June 30 in history

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1. 296Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.Europe
2. 763The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.Europe
3. 1398Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne to the Ming dynasty to become the Jianwen Emperor.Asia
4. 1422Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.Europe
5. 1521Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.Europe
6. 1559King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery.Europe
7. 1598The Spanish-held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico having been besieged for fifteen days, surrenders to an English force under Sir George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland.EuropeLatin America
8. 1632The University of Tartu is founded.Europe
9. 1643Royalists loyal to King Charles I led by the Earl of Newcastle defeat Parliamentarian troops commanded by Lord Fairfax in the battle of Adwalton Moor, allowing them to capture Bradford and Leeds.Europe
10. 1651The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory.Europe
11. 1688The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.Europe
12. 1691A Williamite army under Godert de Ginkell takes the city of Athlone from the Jacobites after a short siege.Europe
13. 1703The Battle of Ekeren between a Dutch force and a French force.Europe
14. 1758Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia.Europe
15. 1794Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.North America
16. 1805Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized.North America
17. 1859French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.Europe
18. 1860The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.Europe
19. 1864U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".North America
20. 1876Serbia declares war on the Ottoman Empire, leading to the Serbian Wars for Independence.EuropeMiddle East
21. 1882Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.North America
22. 1886The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.North AmericaEurope
23. 1892The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.North America
24. 1900A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured.North America
25. 1905Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.Europe
26. 1906The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.North America
27. 1908The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.Europe
28. 1912The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.North America
29. 1916World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.Europe
30. 1921U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.North America
31. 1922In 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.North AmericaLatin America
32. 1934The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.Europe
33. 1936Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.AfricaEurope
34. 1937The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.Europe
35. 1944World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.North America
36. 1953The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.North America
37. 1956A 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.North America
38. 1959A 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.North AmericaAsia
39. 1960Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).EuropeAfrica
40. 1963Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.Europe
41. 1966The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.North America
42. 1968Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.Europe
43. 1971The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.Europe
44. 1972The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.World
45. 1973Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and follows the moon's shadow, experiencing the longest total eclipse observation.Africa
46. 1974The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.North America
47. 1977The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.Asia
48. 1985Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.North AmericaMiddle East
49. 1986The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.North America
50. 1989A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani.Africa
51. 1990East and West Germany merge their economies.Europe
52. 1993Malta is officially subdivided into 68 local councils by the Local Councils Act.Europe
53. 1994An Airbus A330-300 crashes during a test flight at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, killing all seven people on board.Europe
54. 2007A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before.Europe
55. 2009Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.Africa
56. 2013Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.North America
57. 2013Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.Middle East
58. 2015A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.Asia
59. 2019Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).North AmericaAsia
60. 2020The Hong Kong National Security Law is passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and immediately comes into effect after gazettal.AsiaNorth America
61. 2021The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30.North America
62. 2023A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.AsiaEurope

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