This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
06/30/1468 Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon 
06/30/1470 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded Italy 
06/30/1503 Johan Frederik, ruler of Saxon (1532-47) 
06/30/1669 Mauritius Vogt, composer 
06/30/1685 John Gay, author (Baggars' Opera) 
06/30/1722 Jiri Antonin Benda, composer 
06/30/1723 Christian Ernst Graf, composer 
06/30/1743 Niels Schiorring, composer 
06/30/1748 Jacques D 'comte' Cassini, French astronomer 
06/30/1768 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25) 
06/30/1789 E J Horace Vernet, French painter 
06/30/1791 F‚lix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart) 
06/30/1807 Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer) 
06/30/1810 Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic/Croatain poet (illyrisme) 
06/30/1811 Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg, Finland, Russian critic, journalist 
06/30/1817 Joseph D Hooker, British botanist 
06/30/1818 Edward John Hopkins, composer 
06/30/1819 William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81) 
06/30/1823 Hendrik J Schimmel, writer/dramatist 
06/30/1837 Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen 
06/30/1846 Ricardo Drigo, composer 
06/30/1847 Jacob T Cremer, min of Cologne/pres (Dutch Min of Finance) 
06/30/1853 Adolf Furtw„ngler, German archaeologist (Antiken Gemmen) 
06/30/1856 Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers) 
06/30/1860 Gyula Andr ssy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs (1918-20) 
06/30/1868 C V France, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail) 
06/30/1879 Walter Hampden, actor (Five Fingers, Sabrina, Hunchback of Notre Dam

06/30/1882 Sven R Lidman, Swedish writer (Tvedr„ktens Barn) 
06/30/1890 Gertrude McCoy, actress 
06/30/1892 Laszlo Lajtha, composer 
06/30/1892 Pierre Blanchar, actor (Magnificent Sinner) 
06/30/1893 Walter Ulbricht, president German DR 
06/30/1894 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand) 
06/30/1896 Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone) 
06/30/1898 George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie) 
06/30/1899 Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal 
06/30/1902 Madge Bellamy, actress (White Zombie, Gordon of Ghost City) 
06/30/1904 Glenda Farrell, actress (Golddiggers of 1935) 
06/30/1905 Nestor Paiva, actor (Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape) 
06/30/1908 Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer 
06/30/1909 Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63) 
06/30/1911 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980)

06/30/1911 Virginia Smith, (Rep-R-NB, 1975-  ) 
06/30/1912 (J) Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist 
06/30/1912 Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams) 
06/30/1912 J Tibor de Powerula, [de Abrah mfalva], Hungarian/Dutch cellist) 
06/30/1913 Harry Wismer, Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY Titans) 
06/30/1914 Natko Devcic, composer 
06/30/1916 David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve) 
06/30/1917 Buddy Rich, Bkln NY, drummer/orch leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go

06/30/1917 Lena Horne, Bkln NY, singer (Stormy Weather) 
06/30/1917 Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician 
06/30/1918 Stuart Foster, Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show) 
06/30/1918 Susan Hayward, Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa) 
06/30/1919 Lee Krieger, entertainer () 
06/30/1920 Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952) 
06/30/1925 Jim Levitch, horse trainer 
06/30/1925 Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948) 
06/30/1925 Will Gay Bottje, composer 
06/30/1927 Joe Skeen, (Rep-R-NM, 1981-  ) 
06/30/1927 Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico) 
06/30/1930 June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade) 
06/30/1930 Mac Benson, horse trainer 
06/30/1931 James Loughran, British conductor 
06/30/1931 Johannes Gru˜ters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad) 
06/30/1931 June Thorburn, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore) 
06/30/1932 Martin Mailman, composer 
06/30/1934 Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion) 
06/30/1936 Nancy Dussault, Pensacola Fla, actress (Muriel-Too Close for Comfort

06/30/1936 Pauls Dambis, composer 
06/30/1936 Tony Musante, Bridgeport Ct, actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide

06/30/1938 Billy Mills, US, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-1964) 
06/30/1938 Chris Hinze, flutist (Vivat Vivaldi) 
06/30/1938 William Mervin Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-64) 
06/30/1939 Lindembergue Cardoso, composer 
06/30/1941 Micki Grant, composer 
06/30/1943 Florence Ballard, singer (Supremes) 
06/30/1944 Glenn Shorrock, vocalist (Little River Band-Help Is On Its, Way) 
06/30/1944 Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder (NY Yankees, NY Mets) 
06/30/1947 Jasper van 't Hof, jazz pianist (Live in Montreux) 
06/30/1947 Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russia, cosmonaut 
06/30/1950 Donna Jean Willmott, Akron Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted) 
06/30/1950 Pablo Castillo, jockey 
06/30/1951 Andr‚ Hazes, Dutch barkeeper/singer (W˜ houden van Oranje) 
06/30/1951 Stanley Clarke, bass (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway) 
06/30/1951 Stephen S Oswald, Seattle Washington, astronaut (STS 42, 56, sk: 67)

06/30/1955 Mark MacDonald, horse trainer 
06/30/1956 Ronald Winans, gospel singer 
06/30/1958 Esa-Pekka Salonen, Helsinki Finland, conductor (Giro) 
06/30/1959 Gina Goldberg, playmate (May, 1981) 
06/30/1962 Julianne Regan, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet) 
06/30/1963 Rupert Graves, actor (Damage, Handful of Dust, Maurice) 
06/30/1966 'Iron' Mike Tyson, heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90) 
06/30/1967 Tina Bockrath, Dayton Oh, playmate (May, 1990)/actress 
06/30/1970 Brian Bloom, actor (As the World Turns) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
06/30/1109 Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon, dies 
06/30/1520 Montezuma, 'great speaker' of the Azteken, dies 
06/30/1538 Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies at 70 
06/30/1649 Simon Vouet, French painter 
06/30/1655 Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81 
06/30/1666 Adam Krieger, composer, dies at 32 
06/30/1666 Alexander Brome, British poet 
06/30/1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55 
06/30/1817 Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist 
06/30/1819 Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72 
06/30/1839 Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel), dies 
06/30/1862 Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 48 
06/30/1882 Charles J Guiteau, assassin (Pres Garfield), hanged 
06/30/1889 Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64 
06/30/1890 Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71 
06/30/1899 Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri), dies 
06/30/1905 John Hay, US politician, dies 
06/30/1914 Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies 
06/30/1919 John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 
06/30/1923 Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56 
06/30/1924 Jacob Israel de Han, poet/writer (Pypelyntjes), dies 
06/30/1934 Ernst R”hm, German staff member, executed at 46 
06/30/1934 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered 
06/30/1934 Karl Earnest, German SA-leader, murdered 
06/30/1934 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), murdered 
06/30/1942 Arnoldus J H Aerts, bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62 
06/30/1946 Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64 
06/30/1953 Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies 
06/30/1953 Gote Carlid, composer, dies at 32 
06/30/1959 Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76 
06/30/1960 Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79 
06/30/1961 Lee De Forest, radio pioneer, dies at 87 
06/30/1965 Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies 
06/30/1968 John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 
06/30/1969 Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76 
06/30/1971 3 cosmonauts, die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry 
06/30/1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died 
06/30/1974 Martin Luther King Sr, shot in church, by a black man 
06/30/1975 Ozzie Nelson, US actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies 
06/30/1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies 
06/30/1980 Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress), dies 
06/30/1983 Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer dies 
06/30/1983 Mary Livingstone, actress (Jack Benny Show), dies at 75 
06/30/1984 Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes) dies of cardiac arrest 
06/30/1987 Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94 
06/30/1987 King Donovan, actor/director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies 
06/30/1992 Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies 
06/30/1992 Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery at 53 
06/30/1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies 
06/30/1993 George 'Spanky' McFarland, actor (Our Gang), dies at 64 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
06/30/ 296 St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope 
06/30/ 833 Louis, king of Austria, crowned 
06/30/ 949 Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of Utrecht 
06/30/1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland 
06/30/1371 Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht 
06/30/1397 Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha

06/30/1520 Spanish conquerers under Cortes take gold from Aztecs 
06/30/1528 Bourgondisch army occupies Utrecht 
06/30/1548 Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans 
06/30/1596 English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz 
06/30/1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published 
06/30/1690 Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Neth/English flee

06/30/1700 Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700) 
06/30/1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms 
06/30/1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio 
06/30/1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) 
06/30/1859 Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope 
06/30/1861 CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade 
06/30/1862 Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia 
06/30/1862 Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp VA (Frayser's Farm) 
06/30/1862 Gustave Flaubert completes 'Salammbo' 
06/30/1863 Battles in Hanover Pennsylvania: 80 casualties 
06/30/1863 Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves 
06/30/1865 8 alleged conspirators in assasination of Lincoln are found guilty 
06/30/1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate 
06/30/1871 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms 
06/30/1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia 
06/30/1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered 
06/30/1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid 
06/30/1894 London Tower Bridge opens 
06/30/1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die 
06/30/1902 S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora 
06/30/1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College 
06/30/1906 Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted 
06/30/1908 Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0 
06/30/1908 Giant fireball impacts in Siberia (Tunguska Event) (Enckes comet?) 
06/30/1909 Heavyweight Jack Johnson & Tony Ross fight to no decision 
06/30/1910 Russia absorbs Finland 
06/30/1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War 
06/30/1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes 
06/30/1913 2nd Balkan War begins 
06/30/1913 NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1 
06/30/1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Afri

06/30/1916 Chick Evans Jr wins golf's US Open 
06/30/1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica 
06/30/1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico 
06/30/1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes 
06/30/1929 Bobby Jones wins golf's US Open 
06/30/1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY 
06/30/1933 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war 
06/30/1933 Card's Dizzy Dean strikesout 17 Cubs to win 8-2 
06/30/1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah close

06/30/1934 'Night of Long Knives,' Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party 
06/30/1934 French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit 
06/30/1934 NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions 
06/30/1934 Night of the long knifes - Hitler liquidates SA 
06/30/1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella 
06/30/1935 Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ

06/30/1936 'Gone With the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell, published 
06/30/1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal) 
06/30/1936 Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy 
06/30/1938 Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1 
06/30/1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemnde 
06/30/1940 'Brenda Starr' cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears 
06/30/1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established 
06/30/1941 Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence 
06/30/1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation 
06/30/1942 US bombs Celebes & Timor 
06/30/1943 Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping) 
06/30/1944 Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea 
06/30/1944 French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands 
06/30/1944 General strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen 
06/30/1944 Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen 
06/30/1945 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins 
06/30/1948 Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0 
06/30/1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs) 
06/30/1949 Dutch troops evacurate Djakarta 
06/30/1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea 
06/30/1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination 
06/30/1952 'Guiding Light' soap opera moves from radio to TV 
06/30/1952 Hussein Sirri Pasja forms Egyptian government 
06/30/1956 United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128 
06/30/1958 Dutch Govt of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers 
06/30/1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time 
06/30/1960 Congo becomes independent of Belgium under premier Patrice Lumumba 
06/30/1960 US stops sugar import from Cuba 
06/30/1960 Za‹re (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium 
06/30/1961 Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago, to become NWA champ 
06/30/1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit 
06/30/1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria 
06/30/1962 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0 
06/30/1962 Murie Lindstrom wins US Women's Golf Open 
06/30/1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian liberation fighters 
06/30/1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent 
06/30/1963 Cardinal Giovanni B Montini crowned Pope Paul VI 
06/30/1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church 
06/30/1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit 
06/30/1964 Last UN-troops leave Congo 
06/30/1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise 
06/30/1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour 
06/30/1966 Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa 
06/30/1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut 
06/30/1967 Mo‹se Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria 
06/30/1967 Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th positions since joining Phi

06/30/1967 Robert H Lawrence names 1st black astronaut 
06/30/1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives 'Order of October Revolution

06/30/1968 Gaullisten win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs 
06/30/1969 Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34 
06/30/1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco 
06/30/1970 1st baseball game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium 
06/30/1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City 
06/30/1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze 
06/30/1971 Biesheuvel govt forms 
06/30/1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 
06/30/1972 Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant 
06/30/1973 Biggest US tanker 'Brooklyn' christened (230,000 ton) 
06/30/1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse 
06/30/1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado 
06/30/1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman 
06/30/1975 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Joe Bugner in Malaysia 
06/30/1975 U of Calif reports milkyway system 3C123 is 8 billion light years 
06/30/1976 John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4 
06/30/1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later 'B-1's the B-52' 
06/30/1977 Marvel Comics publish 'Kiss book' tributing rock group Kiss 
06/30/1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC) 
06/30/1977 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto 
06/30/1978 English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz

06/30/1978 Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox 
06/30/1978 Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs 
06/30/1979 Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury 
06/30/1980 West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow 
06/30/1981 China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy 
06/30/1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification 
06/30/1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale 
06/30/1984 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia 
06/30/1984 Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551) 
06/30/1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut 
06/30/1985 LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June 
06/30/1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4) 
06/30/1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump 
06/30/1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason 
06/30/1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK 
06/30/1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old gir

06/30/1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam 
06/30/1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill 
06/30/1989 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup 
06/30/1992 1st pay bathroom in US opens: 25› (NYC) 
06/30/1992 Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye 
06/30/1992 Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines 
06/30/1992 NHL decides Eric Lindross goes to Flyers instead of Rangers 
06/30/1992 Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s) 
06/30/1994 Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed) 
06/30/1994 Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson 
06/30/1994 US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life 
  
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