June 30

Historic Events

2023

A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country. ›

2021

The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30. ›

2020

The Hong Kong National Security Law is passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and immediately comes into effect after gazettal. ›

2019

Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). ›

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. ›

2013

Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near 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. ›

2009

Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash. ›

2007

A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before. ›

1994

An Airbus A330-300 crashes during a test flight at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, killing all seven people on board. ›

1993

Malta is officially subdivided into 68 local councils by the Local Councils Act. ›

1990

East and West Germany merge their economies. ›

1989

A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. ›

1986

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. ›

1985

Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. ›

1977

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. ›

1974

The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins. ›

1973

Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and follows the moon's shadow, experiencing the longest total eclipse observation. ›

1972

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

1971

The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. ›

1968

Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God. ›

1966

The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. ›

1963

Ciaculli bombing: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo. ›

1960

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

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. ›

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. ›

1953

The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. ›

1944

World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces. ›

1937

The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London. ›

1936

Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country. ›

1934

The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. ›

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. ›

1921

U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States. ›

1916

World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France. ›

1912

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

1908

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

1906

The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act. ›

1905

Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik. ›

1900

A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured. ›

1892

The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ›

1886

The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4. ›

1882

Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. ›

1876

Serbia declares war on the Ottoman Empire, leading to the Serbian Wars for Independence. ›

1864

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation". ›

1860

The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. ›

1859

French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. ›

1805

Under An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, adopted by the U.S. Congress on January 11, 1805, the Michigan Territory is organized. ›

1794

Northwest Indian War: Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery. ›

1758

Seven Years' War: Habsburg Austrian forces destroy a Prussian reinforcement and supply convoy in the Battle of Domstadtl, helping to expel Prussian King Frederick the Great from Moravia. ›

1703

The Battle of Ekeren between a Dutch force and a French force. ›

1691

A Williamite army under Godert de Ginkell takes the city of Athlone from the Jacobites after a short siege. ›

1688

The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution. ›

1651

The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory. ›

1643

Royalists loyal to King Charles I led by the Earl of Newcastle defeat Parliamentarian troops commanded by Lord Fairfax in the battle of Adwalton Moor, allowing them to capture Bradford and Leeds. ›

1632

The University of Tartu is founded. ›

1598

The Spanish-held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico having been besieged for fifteen days, surrenders to an English force under Sir George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. ›

1559

King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery. ›

1521

Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. ›

1422

Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons. ›

1398

Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne to the Ming dynasty to become the Jianwen Emperor. ›

763

The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus. ›

296

Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy. ›