SomeFacts | June 30

On this day - June 30

296 — Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.

763 — The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the ...

1398 — Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne to the Ming dynasty to become ...

1422 — Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss ...

1521 — Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at ...

1559 — King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting ...

1598 — The Spanish-held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, ...

1632 — The University of Tartu is founded.

1651 — The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ...

1688 — The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which ...

1703 — The Battle of Ekeren between a Dutch force and a French force.

1758 — Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a ...

1794 — Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket ...

1805 — Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate ...

1859 — French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a ...

1860 — The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University ...

1864 — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to ...

1882 — Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the ...

1886 — The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs ...

1892 — The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1900 — A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in ...

1905 — Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of ...

1906 — The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and ...

1908 — The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human ...

1912 — The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, ...

1916 — World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of ...

1921 — U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President ...

1922 — In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans ...

1934 — The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent ...

1936 — Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the ...

1937 — The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is ...

1944 — World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of ...

1953 — The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in ...

1956 — A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide ...

1959 — A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air ...

1960 — Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo ...

1963 — Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss ...

1966 — The National Organization for Women, the United States' ...

1968 — Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.

1971 — The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when ...

1972 — The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.

1973 — Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and ...

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 ...

1986 — The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states ...

1989 — A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected ...

1990 — East and West Germany merge their economies.

1993 — Malta is officially subdivided into 68 local councils by the ...

1994 — An Airbus A330-300 crashes during a test flight at ...

2007 — A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the ...

2009 — Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the ...

2013 — Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi ...

2013 — Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, ...

2015 — A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board ...

2019 — Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit ...

2020 — The Hong Kong National Security Law is passed by the Standing ...

2021 — The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and ...

2023 — A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan ...