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June 30

June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko ends with Polish victory
• 1864 - Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation"
• 1908 - Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia
• 1934 - Night of the Long Knives in Germany
• 1936 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published
• 1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collided above Grand Canyon, Arizona killing 128
• 1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11 spacecraft killed when air supply escapes through faulty valve
• 1971 - The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to approve it
• 1997 - China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
• 2002 - Brazil wins the 17th Football World Cup.

Births

• 1470 - Charles VIII of France, King of France (d. 1498)
• 1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, master builder (d. 1766)
• 1775 - Paul de Barras, politician (d. 1829)
• 1789 - Horace Vernet, painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
• 1807 - Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, narrator, lyricist, philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1817 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist (d. 1911)
• 1843 - Ernst Mason Satow, author (d. 1929)
• 1891 - Man Mountain Dean, professional wrestler (d. 1953)
• 1893 - Walter Ulbricht, politician (d. 1973)
• 1899 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (d. 1971)
• 1917 - Susan Hayward, actress (d. 1975)
• 1917 - Lena Horne, actress and singer
• 1934 - Harry Blackstone, Junior, magician (d. 1997)
• 1943 - Florence Ballard, singer; member of the Supremes (d. 1976)
• 1944 - Raymond Moody, parapsychologist
• 1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio, actor (Full Metal Jacket, Ed Wood, )
• 1962 - Tony Fernandez, baseball player
• 1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, guitarist
• 1966 - Mike Tyson, world champion boxer
• 1973 - Chan Ho Park, Korean baseball pitcher
• 1975 - Ralf Schumacher, Formula 1 driver, brother of Michael Schumacher
• 1985 - Michael Phelps, American swimmer
• 1985 - Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine soccer player

Deaths

• 1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi government official
• 1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor
• 1971 - Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolski, and Vladislav Volkov, cosmonautss on Soyuz 11
• 1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright
• 1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
• 1995 - Gale Gordon, actor
• 1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
• 2001 - Chet Atkins, country and western musician

Holidays and observances

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