On this day in History - Jun 30

• 0350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
• 1109 - Alphonso VI dies (b. 1109). King of Castile.
• 1422 - Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
• 1470 - King Charles VIII of France was born (d. 1498)
• 1487 - Concebido o Pentateuco, na cidade de Faro, primeiro livro impresso em Portugal
• 1520 - The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
• 1520 - Montezuma II dies (b. 1466). Aztec ruler
• 1607 - Caesar Baronius dies (b. 1538). Italian cardinal and historian.
• 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko ends with Polish victory.
• 1662 - Casamento de D. Catarina, filha de D. João IV, com Carlos II de Inglaterra.
• 1685 - John Gay was born (d. 1732). English writer.
• 1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann was born (d. 1766). Master builder.
• 1688 - The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, beginning the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
  1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Domstadtl.
• 1775 - Paul de Barras was born. Politician (d. 1829)
• 1789 - Horace Vernet was born (d. 1863). Painter and graphic artist.
• 1793 - Inaugurado o Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos - Lisboa, Portugal
• 1795 - A Academia das Ciências de Lisboa foi autorizada a nomear pessoas para a recolha de lápides e inscrições pelo reino.
• 1796 - Abraham Yates dies (b. 1724). American Continental Congressman.
• 1798 - Criação da Sociedade Real Marítima, Militar e Geográfica, com fins culturais e científicos , e sobretudo para apoio da feitura da Carta Geral do Reino.
• 1805 - The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
• 1805 - Morreu o Intendente (Diogo Inácio da) Pina Manique , fundador da Casa Pia de Lisboa (n. 03 Out 1783)
• 1807 - Friedrich Theodor von Vischer was born (d. 1887). Narrator, lyricist, and philosopher
• 1817 - Joseph Dalton Hooker was born (d. 1911). Botanist.
• 1843 - Ernest Mason Satow was born (d. 1929). Author.
• 1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny dies (b. 1802). French naturalist.
• 1859 - French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
• 1864 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation."
• 1871 - Alfredo da Silva was born (d. 1942). Portuguese industrialist.
• 1882 - Charles Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
• 1883 - The first appearance of The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson in Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature.
• 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.
• 1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman dies (b. 1819). American composer.
• 1891 - Man Mountain Dean was born (d. 1953). Professional wrestler.
• 1893 - Walter Ulbricht was born (d. 1973). German politician.
• 1894 - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
• 1894 - London Tower Bridge opens
• 1898 - Otto von Bismarck dies (b. 1815). German Leader
• 1899 - Harry Shields was born (d. 1971). Jazz musician.
• 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity.
• 1906 - Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
• 1908 - Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia. Possibly the most powerful, natural explosion in recorded history occurred on this day in 1908 at 7:17 a.m. The site was the Tunguska section of Central Siberia.
• 1911 - Czesław Miłosz was born. Polish poet (d. 2004). Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1912 - The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
• 1914 - Portugal: Nasce em Chaves Francisco da Costa Gomes. Presidente da República (1974-1976) e marechal.
• 1917 - Susan Hayward was born (d. 14 Mar 1975). American Academy awarded actress. 1959 Best Actress in a Leading Role: I want to live; I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Valley of the Dolls)
• 1917 - Lena Horne was born. Actress and singer.
• 1919 - Alfredo Ernesto de Sá Cardoso assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
• 1919 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh dies (b. 1842). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1921 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft chief justice of the United States.
• 1926 - Paul Berg was born in Brooklyn, New York. American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He shared The Nobel Prize e Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA" with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger.
• 1927 - Shirley Fry was born. Tennis champion: Australian Open [1957], French Open [1951], Wimbledon [1956], U.S. Open [1956]
• 1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr. was born (d. 1997). Magician.
• 1934 - Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany takes place.
• 1934 - Kurt von Schleicher dies (b. 1882). Chancellor of Germany.
• 1934 - Ernst Röhm dies. Nazi government official
• 1935 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
• 1936 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published.
• 1936 - Nancy Dussault was born. Actress.
• 1939 - Peter Bogdanovich was born in Kingston, New York. American film director.
• 1943 - Florence Ballard was born (d. 1976). American singer (The Supremes).
• 1944 - The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces.
• 1944 - Raymond Moody was born. Parapsychologist
• 1952 - The Guiding Light airs on television for the first time.
• 1953 - The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
• 1953 - Charles Miller dies. Father of football in Brazil.
• 1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing 128.
• 1958 - Esa-Pekka Salonen was born. Finnish conductor and composer
• 1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio was born in Brooklyn, New York. Actor
• 1959 - Brendan Perry was born. Musician (Dead Can Dance)
• 1959 - José Vasconcelos dies (b. 1882). Mexican writer and politician.
• 1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium, with Joseph Kasavubu as president and Patrice Lumumba as prime minister.
• 1961 - Lee DeForest dies (b. 1873). American inventor
• 1962 - Tony Fernandez was born. Baseball player.
• 1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen was born. Guitarist
• 1963 - Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
• 1963 - Pope Paul VI is crowned the 262nd head of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1966 - Mike Tyson was born. World champion boxer
• 1966 - Giuseppe Farina dies (b. 1906). Italian race car driver.
• 1968 - Philip Anselmo was born. Musician.
• 1969 - Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
• 1969 - Dira Paes (Ecleitira Maria Fonseca Paes) was born in Abaetetuba-PA. Brazilian actress.
• 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.
• 1971 - Monica Louise Potter is born in Cleveland, Ohio American actress ( The Young and the Restless, Without Limits, Patch Adams, Along Came a Spider ).
• 1971 - Herbert Biberman dies (b. 1900). Jewish American screenwriter and film director.
• 1971 - Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolski, and Vladislav Volkov, die. Cosmonauts on Soyuz 11. The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through faulty valve.
• 1972 - +1 leap second was added to the UTC time system.
• 1973 - Chan Ho Park was born. Korean baseball pitcher
• 1974 - Vannevar Bush dies (b. 1890). American engineer and politician.
• 1975 - Ralf Schumacher was born. Race car driver
• 1976 - Firpo Marberry dies. Major League Baseball pitcher
• 1977 - Virginia Wade wins the Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon, the last British champion at the All England Club to date.
• 1978 - Willie McCovey becomes the 12th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1980 - Na Islândia, Vigdis Fihnbogadotir foi a primeira mulher europeia a ser eleita Presidente da República.
• 1981 - Closing of the Majdanek Trial
• 1983 - Colonel Muannar Kadhaffi president of Libya (officially his title since 2 March 1979 is 'Leader of the Revolution') flies to Rabat for talks with King Hassan II of Morocco (Mawlay al-Hasan II ibn Muhammad). Success ends a 14 year political rift between the two countries and leads to a period (1984-86) of strong political union between the two countries.
• 1984 - Lillian Hellman dies (b. 1905). Playwright.
• 1984 - Diego Maradona é transferido para o Nápoles
• 1984 - Fantasia Barrino was born. Singer
• 1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• 1985 - Michael Phelps was born. American swimmer
• 1985 - Fabiana Vallejos was born. Argentine footballer
• 1985 - Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• 1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
• 1987 - The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie
• 1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Catholic church.
• 1990 - East and West Germany merge their economies.
• 1992 - Fidel Ramos was sworn in as the new president of the Philippines. Joseph Estrada was elected vice-president with twice as many votes in a separate race.
• 1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
• 1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland dies (b. 1928). Child actor.
• 1994 - The U.S. Figure Skating Association strips Tonya Harding of the national championship and bans her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
• 1995 - Gale Gordon dies (b. 1906). American actor.
• 1995 - Georgi Beregovoi dies (b. 1921). Soviet cosmonaut.
• 1995 - Jorge Peixinho dies. Portuguese musician.
• 1997 - The first book in the award winning Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is published.
• 1997 - The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
• 1997 - Larry O'Day dies (b. 1944). Wrestler.
• 2000 - Bilateral Open skies agreement USA - Portugal / Assinatura de acordo bilateral de "Céus Abertos" entre Estados Unidos e Portugal.
• 2001 - Doctors implant a dual-purpose pacemaker in U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's chest.
• 2001 - Chet Atkins dies (b. 1924). Country and western musician.
• 2002 - Brazil defeats Germany 2-0 in Yokohama, Japan, to earn a record fifth title in the 17th Football World Cup. Ronaldo is the best scorer with 8 goals.
• 2002 - Chico Xavier dies (b. 1910). Popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement.
• 2003 - Buddy Hackett dies (b. 1924). American comic.
• 2003 - Robert McCloskey dies (b. 1915). Children's book writer and illustrator.
• 2004 - Portugal vence a Holanda por 2-1 e assegura a presença na final do Euro 2004 (Campeonato da Europa de Futebol disputado em Portugal) .
• 2004 - António Sousa Freitas dies (b. 1921). Portuguese poet.
• 2005 - Frode Hallingbye is leaving Eli Lilly to fullfill his dream.
• 2005 - Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
• 2005 - Brazil wins Confedarations Cup in football.
• 2006 - World Cup in Germany: Quarter-Finals: Germany beat Argentina on penalty kicks decision after 1-1 and Italy won 3-0 against Ukraine
• 2006 - Robert Gernhardt dies (b. 1937). German satirist.
• 2007 - A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.
• 2007 - Sahib Singh Verma dies (b. 1943). Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi.
• Democratic Republic of the Congo's Independence Day
• Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  First Martyrs of the See of Rome.