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30 Jun 1397
Denmark Norway and Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
30 Jun 1422
Battle of Arbedo between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons
30 Jun 1607
Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
30 Jun 1643
Battle of Atherton Moor Royalists beat parliamentary armies
30 Jun 1648
French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
30 Jun 1651
The Deluge Khmelnytsky Uprising - the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory
30 Jun 1688
Whig Lords questions prince William III of Orange on Protestantism
30 Jun 1690
Battle of Beachy Head French under Tourville beat DutchEnglish fleet
30 Jun 1700
Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 127)
30 Jun 1722
Hungarian Parliament condemns Emperor Charles VIs Pragmatic Sanctions
30 Jun 1741
Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
30 Jun 1755
Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
30 Jun 1758
Seven Years War The Battle of Domstadtl takes place
30 Jun 1815
US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
30 Jun 1834
Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
30 Jun 1859
French acrobat Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
30 Jun 1862
Battle of Glendale [Fraysers Farm] day 6 of 7 days battles Virginia Confederate assault attack (US Civil War)
30 Jun 1863
Battles in Hanover Pennsylvania 80 casualties
30 Jun 1863
Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33000 slaves
30 Jun 1865
8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
30 Jun 1870
Ada Kepley becomes 1st American female law college graduate (Old University of Chicago later Northwestern)
30 Jun 1879
Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full of stolen goods
30 Jun 1881
Henry Highland Garnet named minister to Liberia
30 Jun 1893
Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) then worlds largest discovered in Jagersfontein Mine South Africa
30 Jun 1894
Korea declares independence from China asks for Japanese aid
30 Jun 1898
Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline dispense with a horse.
30 Jun 1899
Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley
30 Jun 1900
4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ 326 die
30 Jun 1902
Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
30 Jun 1905
In Russia the Potemkin arrives at Odessa where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the Revolution
30 Jun 1905
The crew of the Russian battleship Georgei Pobiedonosets mutinies in support of the Potemkin which mutinied three days earlier
30 Jun 1905
Conservative Australian Prime Minister George H. Reid is forced to resign and Alfred Deakin returns to power on July 5
30 Jun 1906
John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
30 Jun 1909
Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
30 Jun 1910
Wimbledon Womens Tennis In an all-British final Dorothea Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-2 6-2 for her 4th of 7 Wimbledon singles titles
30 Jun 1910
Wimbledon Mens Tennis New Zealander Anthony Wilding beats Arthur Gore 6-4 7-5 4-6 6-2 for his 1st of 4 consecutive Wimbledon singles titles
30 Jun 1911
Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War
30 Jun 1911
British Open Golf Royal St Georges Golf Club Harry Vardon wins his 5th Championship by 10 shots in a playoff with 1907 champion Arnaud Massy of France
30 Jun 1913
NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1
30 Jun 1913
To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills a massive defense buildup
30 Jun 1916
US Open Mens Golf Minikahda GC Amateur Chick Evans leads wire-to-wire to set new Open scoring record and win his only Open title 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Jock Hutchison
30 Jun 1918
Prominent US Socialist and Pacifist Eugene Debs is arrested on charges of denouncing the government a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917
30 Jun 1924
England score 2-503 in days play v South Africa at Lords
30 Jun 1925
Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television)
30 Jun 1927
Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
30 Jun 1927
US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota closes
30 Jun 1928
Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards
30 Jun 1930
1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
30 Jun 1933
LPGA Western Open Womens Golf Olympia Fields CC June Beebe beats Jane Weiller 3 & 2 for golfs only major title
30 Jun 1933
50000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascismwar
30 Jun 1933
Cards Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2
30 Jun 1933
US Assay Offices in Helena Mon Boise Indiana and Salt Lake City Utah closes
30 Jun 1934
French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
30 Jun 1934
NFLs Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
30 Jun 1935
Danno OMahoney beats Ed George in Boston to become wrestling champ
30 Jun 1935
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
30 Jun 1936
40 hour work week law approved for US federal employees
30 Jun 1937
The worlds first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999
30 Jun 1938
Superman 1st appears in DC Comics Action Comics Series issue 1
30 Jun 1938
Final game at Philas Baker Bowl Giants beat Phils 14-1
30 Jun 1939
Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time at Peenemunde
30 Jun 1940
Brenda Starr Reporter 1st cartoon strip by a woman Dale [Dalia] Messick begins as a comic-book supplement to Chicagos Sunday Tribune
30 Jun 1940
German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands
30 Jun 1941
Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) declare Ukraine independent
30 Jun 1941
World War II Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv Ukraine
30 Jun 1942
Col-general Von Pauls 6th Army enters Ukraine
30 Jun 1942
U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (700227 tons)
30 Jun 1944
Universal strike against Nazi terror in Copenhagen
30 Jun 1944
World War II The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces
30 Jun 1948
Cleveland Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers 2-0
30 Jun 1948
Transistor as a substitute for valves announced (Bell Labs)
30 Jun 1950
US General MacArthur visits front in South Koreaasks for US troops
30 Jun 1951
NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
30 Jun 1952
Guiding Light soap opera moves from radio to TV
30 Jun 1954
Largest check Internal US Treasury check at 4176969623.57
30 Jun 1954
Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby Browns last game he retired to become a doctor
30 Jun 1956
Pipe Dream closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances
30 Jun 1956
Shangri-La closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 21 performances
30 Jun 1956
United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
30 Jun 1958
No Chemise Please by Gerry Grenahan peaks at 24
30 Jun 1958
Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
30 Jun 1959
During a game in Wrigley Field 2 balls were in play at same time
30 Jun 1960
Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
30 Jun 1961
Buddy Rogers beats Pat OConner in Chicago to become NWA champ
30 Jun 1961
NASA Explorer Micrometeoroid research mission fails to reach Earth orbit
30 Jun 1962
US Open Womens Golf Dunes Golf & Beach Club Murle Lindstrom wins her first LPGA Tour victory 2 strokes ahead of runners-up Ruth Jessen and Jo Ann Prentice
30 Jun 1962
Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
30 Jun 1963
Ciaculli massacre A car bomb intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco kills seven police and military officers near Palermo
30 Jun 1963
International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting because of its apartheid policies
30 Jun 1964
Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
30 Jun 1966
Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency
30 Jun 1966
Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood v WI Trent Bridge wicketless
30 Jun 1966
Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr USN ends term as 7th director of CIA
30 Jun 1967
Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches plays 9th position since joining Phils
30 Jun 1968
East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives Order of October Revolution
30 Jun 1968
Gaullists win French parliamentary election 358 of 458 seats
30 Jun 1969
Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 20834
30 Jun 1969
In South Africa General Laws Amendment Bill is passed the Bill contains far-reaching provisions and restrictions affecting the administration of justice and the disclosure of evidence
30 Jun 1970
Cincinnatis Riverfront Stadium opens Braves beat Reds 8-2
30 Jun 1971
Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth (only people to die in space)
30 Jun 1971
Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18 thus ratifying 26th amendment
30 Jun 1972
One leap second is added to the UTC time system also 1981 1982 1983 1985
30 Jun 1972
Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL & go on to win pennant
30 Jun 1972
Ulster Defence Association (UDA) begin to organise its own no-go areas (this is a response to the continuation of Republican no-go areas and fears about concessions to the IRA)
30 Jun 1973
Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour TV Variety debut on ABC
30 Jun 1973
Biggest US tanker Brooklyn christened (230000 ton)
30 Jun 1973
Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
30 Jun 1974
Canadian Open Golf (Peter Jackson Classic) Candiac GC Carole Jo Skala wins by 3 from JoAnn Carner
30 Jun 1974
Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches Gullivers nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester NY)
30 Jun 1974
Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west
30 Jun 1975
Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
30 Jun 1975
University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
30 Jun 1976
John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m 451.4
30 Jun 1977
US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Washington D.C.)
30 Jun 1977
Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
30 Jun 1978
Giants Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
30 Jun 1978
Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox
30 Jun 1979
Got To Go Disco closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
30 Jun 1979
Good Times single released by Chic (Billboard Song of the Year )
30 Jun 1979
Davona Dale wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch American thoroughbred racings Triple Tiara for fillies
30 Jun 1981
Chinas Communist Party condemns late Mao Zedongs policy
30 Jun 1981
Zwelakhe Sisulu President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa is detained
30 Jun 1982
Lena Horne Lady Music closes at Nederlander NYC after 333 performances
30 Jun 1982
Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
30 Jun 1982
Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
30 Jun 1982
New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting legend of the Jersey Devil a creature that allegedly inhabited the Pine Barrens of South Jersey
30 Jun 1984
Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
30 Jun 1980
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
30 Jun 1984
Longest pro football game LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
30 Jun 1985
The King & I closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
30 Jun 1985
39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
30 Jun 1665
The number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6137 people
30 Jun 1899
Spin bowler Jack Hearne takes England crickets first Test hat-trick vs Australia in drawn 3rd Test at Headingley dismisses champion middle order trio Clem Hill Syd Gregory and Monty Noble
30 Jun 1902
Wimbledon Mens Tennis Laurence Doherty wins his first Wimbledon singles title beating defending champion Arthur Gore 6-4 6-3 3-6 6-0
30 Jun 1903
Wimbledon Womens Tennis Dorothea Chambers beats Ethel Larcombe 4-6 6-4 6-2 the first of 7 titles
30 Jun 1908
Wimbledon Mens Tennis Arthur Gore takes his 2nd of 3 Wimbledon titles beating Herbert Roper-Barrett 6-3 6-2 4-6 3-6 6-4
30 Jun 1909
Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to a no decision in 6 rounds at Duquesne Gardens Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to retain his heavyweight boxing title
30 Jun 1911
British Open Mens Golf Royal St Georges Golf Club Harry Vardon wins his 5th Championship by 10 shots in a playoff with 1907 champion Arnaud Massy of France
30 Jun 1933
US Assay Offices close in Helena MT Boise ID and Salt Lake City UT
30 Jun 1934
Detroit radio executive George Richards pays 7952.08 to buy NFLs Portsmouth Spartans moves team to Detroit and rebrands it to Lions
30 Jun 1980
British sixpence demonetised after being in used since 1551 and 12 years after introduction of decimal currency
30 Jun 1377
Foundation stone laid for Ulm Minster in Ulm Germany. Will not be completed until 1890 when it becomes the tallest church in the world.
30 Jun 1596
English and Dutch fleet begin attack of the Spain fleet moored at Cdiz during the Anglo-Spanish war. Leads also to the looting and burning of the city of Cdiz.
30 Jun 1598
King Philip II of Spain moves to El Escorial royal palace (dies there three months later)
30 Jun 1643
Battle of Adwalton Moor Royalists beat parliamentary army during First English Civil war
30 Jun 1690
Battle of Beachy Head French under Tourville beat Dutch English fleet
30 Jun 1704
First trial for piracy by the British Admiralty Court outside of Britain finds Captain John Quelch and five crew guilty sentenced to hang the same day [1]
30 Jun 1758
Seven Years War The Battle of Domstadtl results in Austrian victory over Prussia in Moravia
30 Jun 1794
Seige of Fort Recovery Ohio Anglo American army holds off an attack on the fort by an Indian confederacy
30 Jun 1851
Battle of Viervoet Basotho forces led by Moshoeshoe defeat the British over the British imposed Walden line
30 Jun 1862
French writer Gustave Flaubert completes his novel Salammbo
30 Jun 1896
William S. Hadaway patents an electric stove in the US
30 Jun 1900
4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks in New Jersey 326 die
30 Jun 1927
Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto Csar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
30 Jun 1938
Final game at Philadelphias Baker Bowl Giants beat Philadelphia 14-1
30 Jun 1948
Cleveland Indians future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers 2-0
30 Jun 1950
US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea asks for US troops
30 Jun 1959
During a game in Wrigley Field 2 balls are in play at same time
30 Jun 1966
England spin bowler Derek Underwood goes wicketless in his Test cricket debut v West Indies at Nottingham captures 297 wickets in illustrious 86 Test career
30 Jun 1966
Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr. USN ends term as 7th director of CIA
30 Jun 1967
Former Congolese Prime Minister Moise Tsjombes plane hijacked to Algeria
30 Jun 1967
Philadelphia Phillies utility man Cookie Rojas pitches a scoreless 9th inning in 12-3 loss to SF Giants Rojas had now played all 9 positions since arriving in MLB in 1963
30 Jun 1970
Cincinnatis Riverfront Stadium opens as the visiting Atlanta Braves beat Reds 8-2 demolished 2002
30 Jun 1974
Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to hide his burglary at a bowling alley fires spreads next door to Gullivers nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester New York)
30 Jun 1974
Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the West
30 Jun 1976
John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 meters 451.4
30 Jun 1978
Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Larry Doby becomes only the second African-American manager in MLB with the Chicago White Sox
30 Jun 1737
British Commissioners of Longitude grant self-taught clockmaker John Harrison 500 after the successful trial of his first longitude clock
30 Jun 1906
John Hope becomes 1st black president of Atlanta Baptist College (later known as Morehouse College)
30 Jun 1983
KBS Special Live Broadcast Finding Dispersed Families begins daily in Korea documenting reunion attempts after the Cold War (later included in UNESCOs Memory of the World) [1]
30 Jun 1800
Glasgow Police Act establishes the City of Glasgow Police considered the 1st modern-style municipal police force in Glasgow Scotland
30 Jun 1881
Henry Highland Garnet named US minister to Liberia
30 Jun 1934
French Equatorial Africa reconstituted into a single French colony and administrative unit
30 Jun 1938
Superman first appears in DC Comics Action Comics Series issue 1
30 Jun 1966
Some attendees at the National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington D.C. lay groundwork to establish a group to speak for womens rights - the National Organization of Women (NOW)
30 Jun 1966
The Beatles land in Tokyo Japan for what becomes their final concert tour there - they perform 5 shows at the Budokan Hall over 3 days and collaborate on a painting while there
30 Jun 1970
IBM announces its System370 mainframe computer
30 Jun 1971
Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth becoming the only people to die in space
30 Jun 1985
39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
30 Jun 1985
LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
30 Jun 1986
Georgia sodomy law upheld by US Supreme Court (5-4)
30 Jun 1987
Patrik Sjberg of Sweden sets a new mens high jump world record 2.42m (7 ft 11 14 in) in Stockholm Sweden
30 Jun 1987
The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the 1 coin known as the Loonie
30 Jun 1988
Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox wont move to Florida
30 Jun 1988
French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
30 Jun 1377
Foundation stone laid for Ulm Minster in Free Imperial City of Ulm Holy Roman Empire construction is not completed until 1890 when it becomes the tallest church in the world
30 Jun 1909
MLB Pittsburgh Pirates host the first game at Forbes Field losing 3-2 to the Chicago Cubs in front of 30338 fans in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania club owner Barney Dreyfuss names the first steel and concrete stadium after British general John Forbes who fought in the French and Indian War and named the city
30 Jun 1958
Dutch government of Willem Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
30 Jun 1960
Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
30 Jun 1962
LA Dodgers future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax no-hits New York Mets 5-0 first of 4 career no-hitters thrown by Koufax
30 Jun 1988
French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church for consecrating traditionalist bishops
30 Jun 1989
NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago Chile & Guam