Historical Events on June 30

Events 1 - 200 of 278

• 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 crowned King of Austria

• 949 Otto I the Great gives away bishopric of Utrecht "foreestrecht"
• 1294 Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland
• 1371 Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
• 1377 Foundation stone laid for Ulm Minster, in Ulm, Germany. Will not be completed until 1890, when it becomes the tallest church in the world.
• 1397 Denmark, Norway and Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
• 1422 Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons

• 1528 Burgundian army occupies Utrecht

• 1596 English and Dutch fleet begin attack of the Spain fleet moored at Cádiz during the Anglo-Spanish war. Leads also to the looting and burning of the city of Cádiz.

• 1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
• 1643 Battle of Adwalton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary army during First English Civil war
• 1648 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
• 1651 The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising - the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory
• 1665 The number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6,137 people

• 1704 First trial for piracy by the British Admiralty Court outside of Britain finds Captain John Quelch and five crew guilty, sentenced to hang the same day [1]

• 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 results in Austrian victory over Prussia in Moravia
• 1794 Seige of Fort Recovery, Ohio, Anglo American army holds off an attack on the fort by an Indian confederacy
• 1800 Glasgow Police Act establishes the City of Glasgow Police, considered the 1st modern-style municipal police force, in Glasgow, Scotland
• 1805 Michigan Territory organizes
• 1815 US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
• 1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
• 1851 Battle of Viervoet: Basotho forces led by Moshoeshoe defeat the British over the British imposed Walden line
• 1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope

• 1861 CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
• 1862 Battle of Glendale [Frayser's Farm], day 6 of 7 days battles, Virginia Confederate assault attack (US Civil War)

• 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 American female law college graduate (Old University of Chicago, later Northwestern)
• 1871 Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
• 1876 Serbia declares war on Turkey
• 1879 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full of stolen goods
• 1881 Henry Highland Garnet named US minister to Liberia
• 1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) then world's largest, discovered in Jagersfontein Mine, South Africa
• 1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
• 1894 London's Tower Bridge opens across the Thames
• 1896 William S. Hadaway patents an electric stove in the US
• 1898 Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline “dispense with a horse.”
• 1899 Spin bowler Jack Hearne takes England cricket's first Test hat-trick vs Australia in drawn 3rd Test at Headingley; dismisses champion middle order trio Clem Hill, Syd Gregory and Monty Noble
• 1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks in New Jersey, 326 die
• 1902 Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning

• 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 The crew of the Russian battleship "Georgei Pobiedonosets" mutinies in support of the "Potemkin", which mutinied three days earlier
• 1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Atlanta Baptist College (later known as Morehouse College)

• 1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French Minister of War
• 1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
• 1913 To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army, the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills, a massive defense buildup

• 1918 Prominent US Socialist and Pacifist Eugene Debs is arrested on charges of denouncing the government, a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917
• 1921 The South African Reserve Bank is established
• 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 Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César 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
• 1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady, NY

• 1933 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
• 1933 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Olympia Fields CC: June Beebe beats Jane Weiller, 3 & 2 for golf's only major title
• 1933 US Assay Offices close in Helena, MT, Boise, ID and Salt Lake City, UT

• 1934 Detroit radio executive George Richards pays $7,952.08 to buy NFL's Portsmouth Spartans; moves team to Detroit and rebrands it to 'Lions'
• 1934 French Equatorial Africa reconstituted into a single French colony and administrative unit
• 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

• 1937 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
• 1938 Final game at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Philadelphia 14-1
• 1938 Superman first appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
• 1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
• 1940 "Brenda Starr, Reporter", 1st cartoon strip by a woman, Dale [Dalia] Messick, begins as a comic-book supplement to Chicago's Sunday Tribune
• 1940 German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands
• 1940 US Fish and Wildlife Service forms
• 1941 Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) declare Ukraine independent
• 1941 World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine
• 1942 Col-general Von Paul's 6th Army enters Ukraine
• 1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700,227 tons)
• 1942 US bombs Celebes and Timor
• 1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation

• 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 Cleveland Indians' future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher 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 Jakarta
• 1950 US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea, asks for US troops

• 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

• 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 are 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 NASA Explorer Micrometeoroid research mission fails to reach Earth orbit
• 1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria

• 1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
• 1962 Rwanda and Burundi become independent
• 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

• 1966 England spin bowler Derek Underwood goes wicketless in his Test cricket debut v West Indies at Nottingham; captures 297 wickets in illustrious 86 Test career
• 1966 Leopoldville, Congo, is renamed Kinshasa
• 1966 Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency
• 1966 Some attendees at the National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington D.C. lay groundwork to establish a group to speak for women's rights - the National Organization of Women (NOW)
• 1966 The Beatles land in Tokyo, Japan for what becomes their final concert tour there - they perform 5 shows at the Budokan Hall over 3 days, and collaborate on a painting while there
• 1966 Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
• 1967 Former Congolese Prime Minister Moise Tsjombe's plane hijacked to Algeria
• 1967 Philadelphia Phillies utility man Cookie Rojas pitches a scoreless 9th inning in 12-3 loss to SF Giants; Rojas had now played all 9 positions since arriving in MLB in 1963

• 1968 Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 seats
• 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
• 1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
• 1970 Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens as the visiting Atlanta Braves beat Reds, 8-2; demolished 2002
• 1970 IBM announces its System/370 mainframe computer
• 1971 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth becoming the only people to die in space
• 1972 One leap second is added to the UTC time system; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
• 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 Canadian Open Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Candiac GC: Carole Jo Skala wins by 3 from JoAnn Carner
• 1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to hide his burglary at a bowling alley, fires spreads next door to "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester, New York)
• 1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the West
• 1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado

• 1975 University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
• 1976 John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 meters, 4:51.4

• 1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Washington, D.C.)
• 1977 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto

• 1979 "Good Times" single released by Chic (Billboard Song of the Year 1979)

• 1980 British sixpence demonetised after being in used since 1551 and 12 years after introduction of decimal currency

• 1981 Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, is detained

• 1982 New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting; legend of the Jersey Devil, a creature that allegedly inhabited the Pine Barrens of South Jersey
• 1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
• 1983 KBS Special Live Broadcast “Finding Dispersed Families” begins daily in Korea, documenting reunion attempts after the Cold War (later included in UNESCO's Memory of the World) [1]
• 1984 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
• 1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds

• 1985 39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
• 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 Patrik Sjöberg of Sweden sets a new men's high jump world record 2.42m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) in Stockholm, Sweden
• 1987 The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie

• 1988 Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Florida
• 1988 French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
• 1988 Sitcom "Sledge Hammer!" last airs on ABC-TV

• 1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam

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