June 30 in History

Historical Events on June 30

296

Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
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.
1908

The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
1912

The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan
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

Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
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 China.
2013

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

Protests 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
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.

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