On this day: 30 June
Events, births and deaths on 30 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Kenneth Colley
- Deaths ·
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Paul Berg
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 945 · Deaths · Ki no Tsurayuki
- 1066 · Deaths · Theobald of Provins
Events · 31
- 763(Julian date)Battle of Anchialus — battle
- 1422(Julian date)Battle of Arbedo — 1422 middle ages battle
- 1521Battle of Noáin — 1521 battle during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre
- 1643Battle of Adwalton Moor — 1643 battle in Adwalton, West Yorkshire, England, part of the First English Civil War
- 1703Battle of Ekeren — 1703 battle
- 1758Battle of Domstadtl — 1758 battle between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Kingdom of Prussia
- 1805Michigan Territory — territory of the USA
- 18601860 Oxford evolution debate — debate
- 1876Serbian–Ottoman Wars — war between Principality of Serbia and Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1878
- 1908Tunguska event — powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River
- 1912Regina Cyclone — tornado
- 1924flag of the Republic of China — national flag of the Republic of China
- 1934Night of the Long Knives — purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934
- 1937999 — emergency telephone number
- 19561956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision — mid-air collision
- 19591959 Okinawa F-100 crash — 1959 aviation accident
- 1960Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) — former country (1960–1971) in Africa, predecessor of Zaire
- 1963Ciaculli massacre — 1963 assassination attempt of Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco
- 1972leap second — extra second inserted or removed to keep civil time in sync with the Earth's rotation
- 1973solar eclipse of June 30, 1973 — solar eclipse
- 19731973 Concorde eclipse flight — longest total solar eclipse observation
- 19891989 Sudanese coup d'état — conflict
- 1994Airbus Industrie Flight 129 — Aviation accident
- 1997Hong Kong handover ceremony — 1997 ceremony that officially marked the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China
- 20022002 FIFA World Cup Final — championship match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup
- 2007Glasgow Airport attack — 2007 terrorist attack in Scotland
- 2008TVB J2 — television channel in Hong Kong
- 2009Yemenia Flight 626 — aviation accident
- 2013June 2013 Egyptian protests — Protests occurred in Egypt on 30 June 2013
- 20152015 Indonesia Hercules C-130 crash — 2015 plane crash in Medan, Indonesia
- 20192019 Koreas–United States Panmunjom Summit — meeting at the Korean Demilitarised Zone
Births · 60
- 1470(Julian date)Charles VIII of France — King of France from 1483 to 1498
- 1478John, Prince of Asturias — Prince of Asturia
- 1503(Julian date)John Frederick I — Elector of Saxony and Head of the Protestant Confederation of Germany (1503-1554)
- 1685John Gay — English poet and playwright (1685–1732)
- 1755Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras — French politician (1755-1829)
- 1789Horace Vernet — French painter (1789–1863)
- 1791Félix Savart — French physicist (1791–1841)
- 1817Joseph Dalton Hooker — British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)
- 1884Georges Duhamel — French writer (1884–1966)
- 1892Pierre Blanchar — French actor (1892–1963)
- 1893Walter Ulbricht — German communist politician and dictator (1893–1973)
- 1899Madge Bellamy — American actress (1899–1990)
- 1906Anthony Mann — American film director (1906–1967)
- 1907Roman Shukhevych — Ukrainian nationalist (1907–1950)
- 1909Juan Bosch — First democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic (1909-2001)
- 1911Czesław Miłosz — Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
- 1913Alfonso López Michelsen — 32 President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978
- 1914
- 1917Susan Hayward — American actress (1917–1975)
- 1917Lena Horne — American singer, actress, dancer and activist (1917–2010)
- 1926Paul Berg — American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926–2023)
- 1927Shirley Fry — American tennis and badminton player (1927–2021)
- 1930Ahmed Zaki Yamani — former Saudi Arabian minister (1930–2021)
- 1933Tomislav Ivić — Croatian football player and manager (1933-2011)
- 1936Assia Djebar — French Algerian writer, translator and film director (1936-2015)
Deaths · 60
- 350(Julian date)Nepotianus — 4th-century Roman usurper
- 945(Julian date)Ki no Tsurayuki — Japanese writer
- 1224(Julian date)Adolf of Osnabrück — German Cistercian monk, Bishop of Osnabrück and saint
- 1337(Julian date)Eleanor de Clare — Anglo-Welsh noblewoman
- 1522(Julian date)Johann Reuchlin — German humanist and scholar of Greek and Hebrew (1455-1522)
- 1538(Julian date)Charles, Duke of Guelders — Duke of Guelders and Count of Zutphen from 1492 to 1538
- 1607Caesar Baronius — Italian cardinal and ecclesiastical historian (1538–1607)
- 1649Simon Vouet — French painter (1590-1649)
- 1670Henrietta of England — English princess, duchesse of Orléans (1644-1670)
- 1685Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll — Scottish politician
- 1709Edward Lhuyd — Welsh antiquarian, linguist and scientist (1660-1709)
- 1785James Oglethorpe — British Army general, founder of the Georgia colony (1696-1785)
- 1857Alcide d'Orbigny — French scientist (1802–1857)
- 1882Charles J. Guiteau — American assassin (1841–1882)
- 1908Thomas Hill — American painter (1829–1908)
- 1913Alphonse Kirchhoffer — French fencer (1873–1913)
- 1917Dadabhai Naoroji — Indian politician leader, scholar and writer (1825–1917)
- 1917Antonio de La Gandara — French painter, pastellist and draughtsman (1861-1917)
- 1919John William Strutt — English physicist (1842–1919)
- 1932Bruno Kastner — German actor (1890–1932)
- 1934Kurt von Schleicher — German chancellor (1882-1934)
- 1934Gregor Strasser — German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Party (1892-1934)
- 1934Gustav Ritter von Kahr — German politician (1862-1934)
- 1934Karl Ernst — German SA leader (1904-1934)
- 1934Erich Klausener — German politician (1885-1934)
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