Notable Historical Events on June 30th
June 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
296 |
St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
350 |
Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome. |
833 |
Louis, king of Austria, crowned |
949 |
Otto I the Great gives away bishopdpric of Utrecht "foreestrecht" |
1294 |
Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland |
1371 |
Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht |
1397 |
Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha |
1422 |
Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons. |
1520 |
Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés take gold from Aztecs |
1520 |
The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan. |
1528 |
Burgundian army occupies Utrecht |
1548 |
Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans |
1559 |
King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery. |
1596 |
English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz |
1598 |
King Philip II moves to Escorial palace |
1607 |
Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published |
1643 |
Battle of Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies |
1648 |
French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together |
1651 |
The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising - the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory. |
1688 |
Whig Lords questions prince William III of Orange on Protestantism |
1690 |
Battle of Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Dutch/English fleet |
1700 |
Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700) |
1722 |
Hungarian Parliament condemns Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions |
1734 |
Russian army occupies Danzig |
1741 |
Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms |
1755 |
Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants |
1758 |
Seven Years' War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place. |
1794 |
Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio |
1815 |
US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates |
1834 |
Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) |
1851 |
Battle of Viervoet (Basotho-British war) |
1859 |
Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope |
1860 |
The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. |
1861 |
CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade |
1862 |
Battle at Nelson's Farm/Glendale/Frayser's Farm, Virginia: Confederate assault attack. 6th day of 7 days battles US Civil War |
1862 |
Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo" |
1863 |
Battles in Hanover, Pennsylvania: 80 casualties |
1863 |
Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves |
1863 |
Skirmish at Sporting Hill Pennsylvania |
1865 |
8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty |
1870 |
Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate |
1871 |
Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms |
1876 |
Serbia declares war on Turkey |
1879 |
Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods |
1881 |
Henry Highland Garnet named minister to Liberia |
1893 |
Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered |
1894 |
Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid |
1894 |
London's Tower Bridge opens |
1896 |
W S Hadaway patents electric stove |
1898 |
Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline "dispense with a horse." |
1899 |
Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley |
1900 |
4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die |
1902 |
Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning |
1905 |
The crew of the Russian battleship "Georgei Pobiedonosets" mutinies in support of the "Potemkin", which mutinied three days earlier |
1905 |
In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution' |
1905 |
Conservative Australian Prime Minister George H. Reid is forced to resign and Alfred Deakin returns to power on July 5 |
1906 |
John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College |
1906 |
US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular) |
1908 |
Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0 |
1908 |
Tunguska Event: a giant fireball most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet impacts in Siberia |
1909 |
Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title |
1910 |
Russia absorbs Finland |
1910 |
27th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats D Boothby (6-2 6-2) |
1910 |
34th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Anthony Wilding beats A Gore (6-4 7-5 4-6 6-2) |
1911 |
Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War |
1911 |
US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes |
1913 |
NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1 |
1913 |
To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army, the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills, a massive defense buildup |
1914 |
Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa |
1916 |
22nd US Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN |
1916 |
General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" |
1921 |
The South African Reserve Bank is established. |
1923 |
New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica |
1924 |
England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's |
1925 |
Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television) |
1927 |
Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico |
1927 |
US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes |
1928 |
Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards |
1929 |
33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY |
1930 |
1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY |
1930 |
Don Bradman scores 254 for Australia at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours |
1933 |
50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war |
1933 |
Card's Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2 |
1933 |
US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes |
1934 |
"Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party |
1934 |
French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit |
1934 |
NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions |
1935 |
Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
1935 |
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress. |
1936 |
40 hour work week law approved for US federal employees |
1936 |
Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy |
1936 |
Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published |
1938 |
Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1 |
1938 |
Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1 |
1939 |
Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde |
1940 |
"Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears |
1940 |
58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month |
1940 |
US Fish & Wildlife Service forms |
1940 |
German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands. |
1941 |
61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month |
1941 |
Pro-Nazi group declares Ukraine independence |
1941 |
World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine. |
1942 |
144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month |
1942 |
Col-gen Von Paul's 6th Army enters Ukraine |
1942 |
US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation |
1942 |
US bombs Celebes & Timor |
1943 |
Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping) |
1944 |
Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea |
1944 |
French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands |
1944 |
Universal strike against Nazi terror in Copenhagen |
1944 |
World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. |
1945 |
17-day newspaper strike in NY begins |
1948 |
Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0 |
1948 |
Last British troops leave Israel |
1948 |
Transistor as a substitute for valves announced (Bell Labs) |
1949 |
Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta |
1950 |
US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops |
1951 |
"Victor Borge Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
1951 |
NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination |
1952 |
"Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV |
1952 |
Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government |
1953 |
1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured |
1954 |
Largest check: Internal US Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57 |
1954 |
Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor |
1955 |
"Johnny Carson Show" debuts on CBS-TV |
1956 |
"Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances |
1956 |
"Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 21 performances |
1956 |
Lenin's politics testament (1923) published in Moscow |
1956 |
United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128 |
1958 |
"No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24 |
1958 |
Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers |
1959 |
During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time |
1960 |
US stops sugar import from Cuba |
1960 |
Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium |
1961 |
Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago, to become NWA champ |
1961 |
Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit |
1962 |
17th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom |
1962 |
French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria |
1962 |
LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0 |
1962 |
Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters |
1962 |
Rwanda & Burundi become independent |
1963 |
Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church |
1963 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open |
1963 |
Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo. |
1963 |
International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting because of its apartheid policies |
1964 |
Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit |
1964 |
Last UN troops leave Congo |
1965 |
NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise |
1966 |
Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour |
1966 |
Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa |
1966 |
Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency |
1966 |
Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless |
1966 |
Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA |
1967 |
Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut |
1967 |
Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria |
1967 |
Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining Phils |
1968 |
East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" |
1968 |
Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 seats |
1968 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
1969 |
Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34 |
1969 |
Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco |
1969 |
In South Africa, General Laws Amendment Bill is passed; the Bill contains far-reaching provisions and restrictions affecting the administration of justice and the disclosure of evidence |
1970 |
Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City |
1970 |
Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2 |
1971 |
Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment |
1972 |
One leap second is added to the UTC time system; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 |
1972 |
Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant |
1972 |
Ulster Defence Association (UDA) begin to organise its own 'no-go' areas (this is a response to the continuation of Republican 'no-go' areas and fears about concessions to the IRA) |
1973 |
"Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour" TV Variety; debut on ABC |
1973 |
Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton) |
1973 |
Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse |
1974 |
2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala |
1974 |
Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester NY) |
1974 |
Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west |
1975 |
Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado |
1975 |
Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia |
1975 |
University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance |
1976 |
John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4 |
1977 |
Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52" |
1977 |
Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss |
1977 |
US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC) |
1977 |
Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto |
1978 |
Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs |
1978 |
Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox |
1979 |
"Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances |
1979 |
Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC TV's Juke Box Jury |
1980 |
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow |
1981 |
China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Zedong's policy |
1981 |
Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained |
1982 |
"Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander NYC after 333 perfs |
1982 |
Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification |
1982 |
Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale |
1982 |
NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders & Americans |
1984 |
Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia |
1984 |
Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551) |
1984 |
Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds |
1984 |
Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years |
1985 |
"The King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances |
1985 |
39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut |
1985 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1985 |
LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June |
1986 |
Georgia sodomy law upheld by US Supreme Court (5-4) |
1987 |
Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time |
1987 |
Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump |
1987 |
The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie. |
1988 |
"Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV |
1988 |
Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason |
1988 |
Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Fla |
1988 |
French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church. |
1989 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia |
1989 |
US Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK |
1989 |
Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl |
1989 |
NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam |
1989 |
NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill |
1989 |
Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup |
1990 |
East & West Germany merge their economies |
1991 |
37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon |
1991 |
South Africa Government repeal the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act) |
1992 |
1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC) |
1992 |
Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines |
1992 |
Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s) |
1992 |
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven. |
1992 |
South African ANC President Nelson Mandela meets with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar |
1993 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Point Theatre, Dublin |
1993 |
Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field |
1994 |
Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed) |
1994 |
Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games |
1994 |
Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson |
1994 |
US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life |
1995 |
Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits |
1995 |
Exxon signs a $15.2-billion deal to develop oil and gas fields near Russia's Sakhalin Island |
1996 |
"Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 perfs |
1996 |
"Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 308 perfs |
1996 |
"State Fair" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances |
1996 |
Caroline Frolic (Miss Ontario), crowned Miss Renaissance USA |
1996 |
Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
1997 |
Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks |
1998 |
Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down |
2001 |
ENI of Italy signs a $550 million contract to develop Iran's Darquain field, expected to produce 160,000 barrels of petroleum per day |
2002 |
Brazil beats Germany 2-0 for soccer's 17th World Cup in South Korea & Japan |
2005 |
Spain legalizes same-sex marriage. |
2007 |
A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack. |
2009 |
Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor |
2009 |
Turkey records its fastest contraction of 13.8% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, leading the country into recession; this is Turkey's biggest economic slump since 1945 |
2012 |
30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths |
2012 |
Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. |
2012 |
Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt |
2013 |
30 people are killed after a fuel truck explodes in Kampala, Uganda |
2013 |
19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona |
2014 |
Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England |
2016 |
Human body parts wash up on shore of Rio's Olympic beach |
2016 |
Michael Phelps headed to Rio, becomes first male swimmer to make five Olympics |
2017 |
State of Hawaii asks judge to clarify Trump travel ban ruling |
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