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        | 30th 
            June, on this day  296 St 
            Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope350 Roman usurper Nepotianus, 
            of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of 
            the usurper Magnentius, 
            in Rome.
 1294 Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland
 1422 Battle 
            of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
 1520 The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
 1559 
            King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match 
            against Gabriel 
            de Montgomery.
 1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
 1688 The 
            Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, beginning the 
            struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate 
            in the Glorious Revolution.
 1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
 1758 Seven 
            Years' War: The Battle 
            of Domstadtl occurs.
 1782 Spain completes its conquest of Florida.
 1794 Battle 
            of Fort Recovery, Ohio
 1805 The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
 1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
 1846 In America, members of the Mormon religious sect, led by Brigham 
            Young, leave their base at Nauvoo City and head for the Great 
            Salt Lake
 1859 Tightrope walker Blondin 
            crosses Niagra Falls from the United States into Canada in eight minutes 
            - walking across a 1,100 foot rope suspended 160 feet above the water
 1860 Historic 
            debate about evolution at the Oxford University Museum.
 1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
 1864 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California 
            for "public use, resort and recreation."
 1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
 1871 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms
 1881 Henry 
            Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
 1882 Charles 
            Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President 
            James Garfield
 1886 The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from 
            Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4 of 
            the same year.
 1893 Excelsior 
            diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
 1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
 1894 In London, the official opening of Tower Bridge to traffic by 
            the Prince of Wales
 1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
 1905 Albert Einstein publishes the article "On 
            the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces 
            special relativity.
 1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska 
            Event)
 1912 The Regina 
            Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's 
            deadliest tornado event.
 1913 2nd Balkan War begins
 1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in 
            S Africa
 1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
 1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
 1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
 1934 In Germany, the 'Night 
            of the Long Knives' when several hundred members of the SA and 
            other senior members of the Nazi Party are killed by the SS on the 
            orders of Adolf Hitler for allegedly being involved in a plot to assassinate 
            him
 1934 French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative 
            unit
 1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret 
            Mitchell, published
 1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemende
 1940 "Brenda 
            Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
 1940 World War II: German troops occupy the Channel Islands
 1944 The Battle 
            of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable 
            port to American forces.
 1946 The United States tests its atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the 
            Pacific Ocean
 1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
 1950 President Truman orders US troops into Korea
 1951 NAACP 
            begins attack on school segregation and discrimination
 1952 "The 
            Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
 1953 The first Chevrolet 
            Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
 1956 United 
            DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
 1960 Za‹re (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium
 1960 In New York, the film premiere of the latest Alfred Hitchcock 
            thriller 'Psycho'
 1960 London production of the stage musical "Oliver" opens 
            in the West End
 1962 Rwanda and Burundi become independent
 1963 Ciaculli 
            massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, 
            kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
 1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
 1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
 1967 Maj Robert 
            H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
 1967 American group The Monkees make their British debut at the Empire 
            Pool, Wembley in London
 1969 Spain cedes 
            Ifni to Morocco
 1969 Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
 1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
 1971 The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 
            11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through 
            a faulty valve.
 1971 Ohio ratifies the 
            26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age 
            to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
 1972 1st 
            leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
 1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
 1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that
 torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester, NY)
 1974 Soviet born ballet dancer Mikhail 
            Baryshnikov defects while touring Canada with the Bolshoi Ballet
 1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
 1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg 
            Allman
 1977 Virginia 
            Wade wins the Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon, the last British 
            champion at the All England Club to date.
 1977 Marvel 
            Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group 
            Kiss
 1979 Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke 
            Box Jury
 1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy
 1981 A youth fires a blank pistol at Queen Elizabth II during the 
            Trooping of the Colour ceremony in London
 1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut p
 1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie 
            Gleason
 1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year 
            old girl
 1990 East and West Germany merge their economies
 1992 Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords 
            as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
 1997 Britain hands Hong Kong back to China when the original 99 year 
            lease expires
 2005 Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
 2007 A car crashes into Glasgow 
            International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist 
            attack.
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        | 30th 
            June 2006 Alarm 
            at Japan population trends Palestinian 
            PM condemns raid  Bush 
            refuses to abandon tribunals  30th June 
            2007 US-led 
            raids 'kill 26' in Baghdad  US 
            probes Afghan civilian deaths  Apple's 
            iPhone makes it to stores  30th June 
            2008 Kenya 
            urges AU to suspend Mugabe  French 
            shooting show injures 17  Sydney 
            fly-past sparks confusion 30th June 
            2009 Deadly 
            market bomb hits Iraq city France 
            'banned Yemen crash plane' Italians 
            killed as train explodes  30th June 
            2010 Nato 
            'repels' Taliban base attack  India 
            bomb blast hurts 8 policemen  EU 
            Airbus subsidies illegal, says WTO |  
        | Birthdates which 
            occurred on 30th June : 1470 Charles VIII 
            king of France (1483-98), invaded Italy 1685 John Gay author (Baggars' Opera)
 1768 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe 1st lady
 1811 Vissarion Belinsky Sveaborg, Finland, Russian critic, journalist
 1819 William A Wheeler (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
 1837 Stephen D Ramseur youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
 1896 Wilfred Pelletier Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
 1898 George Chandler Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
 19-- Chris Risola Ct, rocker (Steelheart-She's Gone)
 19-- Harvey Vernon Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter Country)
 19-- Phil Anselmo rocker (Pantera-Cowboys From Hell)
 19-- Terry Funk Hammond Ind, pro wrestler/actor (Paradise Alley)
 19-- Yngwie Maimsteen rocker (Eclipse, Oddysey)
 1909 Juan Bosch poet/pres of the Dominican Republic (1962-63)
 1911 Czeslaw Milosz Polish/American writer (Nobel 1980)
 1912 Dan Reeves NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
 1913 Harry Wismer Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY Titans)
 1916 David Wayne actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
 1917 Buddy Rich Bkln NY, drummer/orch leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away 
            We Go)
 1917 Lena Horne Bkln NY, singer (Stormy Weather)
 1918 Stuart Foster Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show)
 1918 Susan Hayward Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
 1920 Zeno Colo Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
 1925 Micheline Lannoy Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948)
 1930 June Valli Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
 1934 Harry Blackstone Jr magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & 
            Illusion)
 1936 Nancy Dussault Pensacola Fla, actress (Muriel-Too Close for Comfort)
 1936 Tony Musante Bridgeport Ct, actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to 
            Hide)
 1938 Billy Mills US, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
 1943 Florence Ballard singer (Supremes)
 1944 Glenn Shorrock vocalist (Little River Band-Help Is On Its, Way)
 1944 Ron Swoboda baseball outfielder (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
 1950 Donna Jean Willmott Akron Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
 1951 Stanley Clarke bass (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway)
 1951 Stephen S Oswald Seattle Washington, astronaut (STS 42)
 1958 Esa-Pekka Salonen Helsinki Finland, conductor (Giro)
 1962 Julianne Regan rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet)
 1966 "Iron" Mike Tyson heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
 1967 Tina Bockrath Dayton Oh, playmate (May, 1990)
 1970 Brian Bloom actor (As the World Turns)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deaths which occurred 
            on June 30th:
 1961 Dr Lee De Forest radio pioneer, dies at 87
 1971 3 cosmonauts die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry
 1973 Elmer Layden one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
 1974 Mother of Martin Luther King shot at organ
 1974 Mrs Albert King mother of Martin Luther King, murdered in church
 1974 Mrs Martin Luther King Sr shot in church, by a black man
 1983 Bo Gentry songwriter/producer dies
 1983 Mary Livingstone actress (Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
 1984 Lillian Hellman playwright, dies of cardiac arrest at 79
 
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