June 30th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Congo), * (see below)
Flag Day (Portugal) * CLICK HERE
Flag Day (Tanzania) * CLICK HERE
Meteor Day
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Christian Feast Day of Theobald of Provins
Christian Feast Day of First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
Christian Feast Day of Martial
* Independence Day of Congo, celebrate the independence of Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium in 1960.
Fête de la Artichaut Translation: Artichoke Day (French Republican) The 12th day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"To times weve had.
Some were happy,
some were sad.
Memories,
our partners in crime.
Throwing up a thousand times."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Presbyterian
1 Part Bourbon
Fill With Club Soda
Top With 1 Part 7Up
Wine of The Day
Windy Oaks (2008) Diane's Block
Style - Pinot Noir
Santa Cruz Mountains
$50
Beer of The Day
Red Hydrant Ale
Brewer - Big Dog's Brewing Co. Las Vegas, NV
Style - English-Style Brown Ale
Joke of The Day
It seems that a devout, good couple was about to get married, but a tragic car accident ended their lives. When they got to heaven, they asked St. Peter if he could arrange for them to get married, saying that it was what they had hoped for in life, and they still desired wedded union. He thought about it and agreed, but said they would have to wait.
It was almost one hundred years later when St. Peter sent for them. They were married in a simple ceremony. So things went on, for thirty years or so, but they determined, in this time, that eternity was best not spent together. They went back to St. Peter, and said: "We thought we would be happy forever, but now we believe that we have irreconcilable differences. Is there any way we can get divorced?"
"Are you kidding?" said St. Peter.
"It took me a hundred years to get a priest up here to marry
you. Think of how long it will take to get a lawyer!"
Quote of The Day
"Bad decisions make good stories"
- Anonymous
Whiskey of The Day
Price: $25
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
Eye Safety Awareness Week, Last Week in June
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week, Last Week in June
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness, June 27th through July 4th
Historical Events on June 30th
296 St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
350 Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
833 Louis, king of Austria, crowned
949 Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of Utrecht "foreestrecht"
1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1371 Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
1397 Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
1422 Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs
1520 The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1528 Burgundy army occupies Utrecht
1548 Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans
1559 King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting tournament against Gabriel, Duke de Montgomery.
1596 English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
1598 King Philip II moves to Escorial palace
1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1643 Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1648 French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together
1651 The Deluge, Khmelnytsky Uprising the Battle of Beresteczko ends with a Polish victory.
1688 The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, continuing the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
1688 Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van Orange on Protestantism
1690 Battle at Beachy Head, French under Tourville beat Neth/English fleet
1700 Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)
1722 Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
1734 Russian army occupies Danzig
1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1755 Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1758 The Battle of Domstadtl of the Seven Years' War takes place.
1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1794 Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
1805 The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
1815 US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1861 CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
1862 Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia
1862 Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia, Confederate assault attack
1862 Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp VA (Frayser's Farm)
1862 Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo"
1863 Battles in Hanover Pennsylvania, 80 casualties
1863 Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
1863 Skirmish at Sporting Hill Pennsylvania
1864 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
1865 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1871 Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
1876 Serbia declares war on Turkey
1879 Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods
1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1882 Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination 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.
1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 London Tower Bridge opens
1896 W S Hadaway patents electric stove
1899 Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia at Headingley
1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
1902 Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
1905 Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity.
1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
1908 Giant fireball most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet impacts in Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1909 Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
1910 Russia absorbs Finland
1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War
1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1912 The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
1913 2nd Balkan War begins
1913 NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1916 22nd US Golf Open, Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN
1916 General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits"
1921 U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
1923 NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1924 England score 2-503 in day's play v South Africa at Lord's
1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards
1929 33rd US Golf Open, Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1930 Bradman scores 254 at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours
1933 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1933 Card's Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2
1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1934 NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1934 The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1935 Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1935 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie of Abbysinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Mussolinis (Italy) invasion of his country
1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1938 Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1938 Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
1941 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1941 Operation Barbarossa Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine, World War II.
1942 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
1942 Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1942 US bombs Celebes & Timor
1943 Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)
1944 Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
1944 French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
1944 Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen
1944 The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically valuable port to American forces, World War II.
1945 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
1948 Cleveland Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1948 Last British armies leave Israel
1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1949 Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta
1950 US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops
1951 "Victor Borge Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1952 "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1952 Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
1953 1st Corvette manufactured
1953 The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1954 Largest check, Internal US Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
1954 Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor
1955 "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 "Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances
1956 "Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 21 performances
1956 A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 (Flight 718) collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States, killing all 128 on board the two planes.
1956 Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
1956 United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
1958 "No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24
1958 Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
1959 A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1960 Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1960 US stops sugar import from Cuba
1960 Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium
1961 Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago, to become NWA champ
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 17th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom
1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
1962 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent
1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
1963 Ciaculli massacre, A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open
1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1964 Last UN troops leave Congo
1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
1966 Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
1966 Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA
1966 Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless
1966 Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
1967 Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria
1967 Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining Phils
1968 Credo of the People of God by Pope Paul VI.
1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"
1968 Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34
1969 Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
1970 Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2
1971 Biesheuvel government forms
1971 Dutch Biesheuvel government begins [or May 6]
1971 Ohio becomes 38th state to ratify the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
1971 The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1972 1st leap second day, One leap second is added to the UTC time system (also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985)
1972 Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1973 "Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour," TV Variety; debut on ABC
1973 Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1974 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic), Carole Jo Skala
1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester NY)
1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west
1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
1975 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia
1975 University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance
1976 John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4
1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss
1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
1977 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
1978 English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
1978 Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 HRs
1978 Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox
1979 "Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
1979 Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury
1980 West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
1981 China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1982 "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander NYC after 333 perfs
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1982 NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders & Americans
1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
1984 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
1984 Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
1985 "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1985 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1985 LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
1985 Thirty-nine American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1986 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1987 Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 8th time
1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump
1987 The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1988 "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1988 Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Fla
1988 French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church.
1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia
1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
1989 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
1990 East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1991 32 miners are killed when a coal mine fire in the Donbass region of the Ukraine releases toxic gas.
1991 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon
1992 1st pay bathrooms in US open, 25 cents (NYC)
1992 Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye
1992 Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines
1992 Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher joins the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
1992 Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s)
1993 "Les Miserables," opens at Point Theatre, Dublin
1993 Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
1994 Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
1994 Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games
1994 Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson
1994 US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life
1995 Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits
1996 "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 perfs
1996 "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 308 perfs
1996 "State Fair," closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances
1996 Caroline Frolic (Miss Ontario), crowned Miss Renaissance USA
1996 Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1997 Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
1997 The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
1998 Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down
2005 Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
2007 A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.
2009 Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
2012 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
2012 Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia
2012 Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
2013 19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona
2013 30 people are killed after a fuel truck explodes in Kampala, Uganda
2014 Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
2014 The corpses of the 3 Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank earlier in month are found
2015 A man self-immolates aboard a Nozomi Shinkansen train & kills one other passenger in Japan
2015 Hercules transporter plane crashes minutes after take-off in Medan, Indonesia killing 116
2016 British political candidates announce their bids for leader of Conservative party, including Teresa May and Michael Gove, Boris Johnson rules himself out
Born on June 30th
1286 John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)
1468 Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon
1470 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded Italy (d. 1498)
1503 John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (1532-47) (d. 1554)
1641 Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (d. 1719)
1669 Mauritius Vogt, composer
1685 Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche)
1685 John Gay, British writer (Baggars' Opera) (d. 1732)
1722 Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
1723 Christian Ernst Graf, composer
1743 Niels Schiorring, composer
1748 Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer
1755 Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (d. 1829)
1768 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
1789 E J Horace Vernet, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1863)
1791 Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
1803 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (d. 1849)
1807 Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist, and philosopher (Auch einer) (d.1887)
1810 Stanko Vraz (Jakob Frass), Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism)
1817 Joseph Dalton Hooker, British botanist (d. 1911)
1818 Edward John Hopkins, composer
1819 William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
1823 Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Indian industrialist (d. 1901)
1823 Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist (2 Tudors)
1837 Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1843 Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
1846 Ricardo Drigo, composer
1847 Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp)
1856 Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
1858 Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Libre)
1860 Gyula Andressy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs (1918-20)
1864 Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and psychical researcher (d. 1945)
1868 C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
1879 Walter Hampden, Bkln NY, actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1884 Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
1890 Gertrude McCoy, Sugar Valley GA, silent screen actress (Blue Bird)
1890 Horace Chapman, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder for S Afr in 2 Tests)
1891 Ed "Strangler" Lewis, American professional wrestler (d. 1966)
1891 Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (d. 1953)
1892 Laszlo Lajtha, composer
1892 Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951)
1892 Pierre Blanchar, Philippeville Algeria, actor (Magnificent Sinner)
1893 Harold-Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader (1945-..)
1893 Walter Ulbricht, German politician (d. 1973)
1894 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand)
1896 Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1898 George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
1899 Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal
1899 Harry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1971)
1899 Madge Bellamy, American actress (White Zombie) (d. 1990)
1904 Glenda Farrell, Enid OK, actress (Golddiggers of 1935)
1905 Nestor Paiva, Fresno CA, actor (Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape)
1906 Anthony Mann, American film actor and director (d. 1967)
1906 Ralph Allen, English footballer (d. 1981)
1907 Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1908 Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author (Bestiari)
1908 Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer
1908 Monica Maurice, industrialist
1908 Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
1909 Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1911 Czeslaw Milosz (Bells in Winter, Nobel Prize laureate 1980) (d. 2004)
1911 Virginia Smith, (Rep-R-NB, 1975)
1912 Dan Reeves, American sports team owner, NFL (Cleveland, LA Rams) (d. 1971)
1912 Kenneth Jameson, art educator
1912 Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
1912 Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist
1912 (J) Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist
1913 Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (d. 2007)
1913 Harry Wismer, American sports team owner, AFL (NY Titans) (d. 1967)
1914 David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1914 Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
1914 Natko Devcic, composer
1915 Charles Rowe, cricketer (scored a pair in only Test (NZ v Aust 1946))
1917 Lena Horne, American actress and singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
1917 Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician
1917 Susan Hayward, American actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa) (d. 1975)
1918 Stuart Foster, Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show)
1919 Ed Yost, American inventor (d. 2007)
1919 Lee Krieger, MD, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini)
1920 Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
1920 Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 Gordon Reynolds, musician
1925 Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place)
1925 Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (d. 2010)
1925 Jim Levitch, horse trainer
1925 Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948)
1925 Will Gay Bottje, composer
1926 Paul Berg, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 Harvey Vernon, Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter Country)
1927 James Goldman, author/playwright (Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid)
1927 Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico, 1981)
1928 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic
1929 Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher
1929 Hans Krondahl, Swedish painter and textile designer
1929 James Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 1998)
1930 Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer (Buckaroos)
1930 June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1930 Mac Benson, horse trainer
1930 Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
1930 Thomas Sowell, American economist
1931 Andrew Hill, American jazz pianist (d. 2007)
1931 Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
1931 James Loughran, British conductor
1931 Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad)
1931 June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)
1932 Martin Mailman, composer
1933 Lea Massari, Italian actress
1933 M. J. K. Smith, English cricketer
1933 Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player
1934 Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion) (d. 1997)
1935 John Harlin, American mountaineer (d. 1966)
1936 Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
1936 Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer and songwriter (Caffe Lena) (d. 2002)
1936 Nancy Dussault, American actress (Muriel-Too Close for Comfort)
1936 Pauls Dambis, composer
1936 Tony Musante, American actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide)
1938 Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1938 Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64)
1938 Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist (Vivat Vivaldi)
1938 William Mervin Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-64)
1939 José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet
1939 Lindembergue Cardoso, composer
1940 Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)
1941 John Jameson, cricketer (England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai)
1941 Larry Hall, rocker (Tape Heads)
1941 Micki Grant, composer
1941 Mike Leander Farr, record producer
1941 Peter Pollock, South African cricket player
1942 Robert Ballard, American oceanographer, discoverer (Titanic in 1985)
1942 Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (d. 1976)
1944 Glenn Shorrock, Australian singer-songwriter (Little River Band)
1944 Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
1944 Ron Swoboda, American baseball player, outfielder, sportscaster (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1944 Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
1946 Billy Brown, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 Jasper van 't Hof, Dutch jazz pianist (Live in Montreux)
1947 Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut
1949 Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist (Sweet)
1949 Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut
1949 Eric Goetz, NYC, US shipbuilder (America's Cup 1995)
1949 Thanh Liem Bui, Vietnam, cosmonaut
1950 Donna Jean Willmott, Akron Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
1950 Leonard Whiting, British actor
1950 Pablo Castillo, jockey
1951 Andre Hazes, Dutch barkeeper/singer (We Love Orange)
1951 Andy Scott, Musician
1951 Stanley Clarke, American musician, bassist (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway)
1951 Stephen S Oswald, Seattle Washington, astronaut (STS 42, 56, 67)
1952 Athanassios S. Fokas, Greek mathematician
1952 David Garrison, Broadway and television actor
1953 Hal Lindes, British-American musician (Dire Straits)
1953 Lin Feng-Jiao, Taiwanese actress
1954 Bryn B Burrows, rock drummer (Fabulous Poodles)
1954 Ken Olin, Chicago, actor (Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street)
1954 Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
1954 Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician
1955 David Alan Grier, American actor and comedian
1955 Mark MacDonald, horse trainer
1956 Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human League-Only Human)
1956 David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color, Boomerang)
1956 Ronald Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
1957 Sarah McGuire, Springfield IL, LPGA golfer (1983 United Va Bank-5th)
1957 Sterling Marlin, American race car driver (NASCAR)
1958 Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish conductor and composer (Giro)
1959 Brendan Perry, British musician (Dead Can Dance)
1959 Gina Goldberg, playmate (May, 1981)
1959 Michel Dion, Quebec City Canada, Rifle shooter (Olympics-24-92, 96)
1959 Stephanie Farwig, Milwaukee WI, golfer (1994 LPGA Corning Classic-2nd)
1959 Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
1960 Murray Cook, Australian children's singer (The Wiggles)
1960 Randy Ladouceur, Brockville, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1961 Karolyn Kirby, US beach volleyball player (Goodwill-gold-94)
1962 Julianne Regan, British singer and musician (All About Eve)
1962 Tony Fernández, Dominican baseball player
1962 Vladimir Mikolaevich Dezhurov, Mordovia, astronaut (Mir 18, STS-71)
1963 Rupert Graves, actor (Damage, Handful of Dust, Maurice)
1963 Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
1964 Alexandra Christina Manley, Danish royal
1964 Mark Waters, American film director
1965 Gary Pallister, English footballer
1965 Mitch Richmond, American basketball player, NBA guard (Sac Kings, Oly-g-88, 96)
1965 Steve Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1966 "Iron" Mike Tyson, American Boxer, youngest heavyweight champ (1986-90)
1966 Cheryl Bernard, Canadian curler
1966 Louie Aguiar, NFL punter (KC Chiefs)
1966 Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
1967 David Busst, English former footballer
1967 Rudi Steyn, cricketer (South African opening batsman 1995)
1967 Sheila Hudson, US triple jumper (US record 1992)
1967 Tina Bockrath, Dayton Oh, playmate (May, 1990)/actress
1968 Dan Peltier, Clifton Park NY, outfielder (SF Giants)
1968 Peter Miller, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1968 Philip Anselmo, American musician
1969 Jim Montgomery, Montreal, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1969 Ken Gernander, Grand Rapids, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1969 Kristina Farrar Stookey, Martha Vineyard MA, 470 yachter (Oly-4th-96)
1969 Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer
1970 Antonio Chimenti, Italian footballer
1970 Brian Bloom, American actor (As the World Turns)
1970 Mark Grudzielanek, American baseball player, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 Anette Michel, Mexican actress
1971 Ann Marsh, Royal Oak Mich, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 Monica Potter, American actress
1971 Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 38
1972 Dan Comiskey, CFL guard (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Ellen Coleen Pasturzak, Portsmouth Ohio, Miss America-Ohio (1996)
1972 Garret Anderson, Los angeles CA, outfielder (California Angels)
1972 James Martin, English celebrity chef
1972 Sandra Cam, Belgian swimmer
1972 Tyrone Davis, NFL tight end (NY Jets, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 Chan-ho Park, South Korean baseball player, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 Dodda Ganesh, cricketer (Karnataka & India pace bowler 1997)
1973 Frank Rost, German footballer
1973 Noam Zylberman, Israeli-born Canadian actor
1974 Melanie Lambert, American ice skater
1974 Michelle Kang, Fredericksburg Virginia, Miss America-Virginia (1997)
1974 Tony Rock, American actor and stand-up comedian
1975 James Bannatyne, New Zealander footballer
1975 Natasha Sturgess, Australian mistral yachter (Olympics-96)
1975 Ralf Schumacher, German F1 race car driver
1975 Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
1976 Brian Rocheleleau, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-olympics-96)
1977 Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
1977 Lola Odusoga, Finland, Miss Universe-3rd place (1996)
1977 Mark Van Gisbergen, English rugby union player
1978 Ben Cousins, Australian Football League player
1978 Claudio Rivalta, Italian footballer
1978 Owen Lafave, ex-husband of Debra Lafave
1979 Matisyahu, American reggae singer
1979 Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
1979 Travis Minor, National Football League Runningback
1980 Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
1980 Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
1981 Allison Schroeder, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA (1997)
1981 Ben Utecht, American football Player
1981 Can Artam, Turkish racing driver
1981 Karolina Sadalska, Polish kayaker
1981 Matt Kirk, Canadian football Player
1982 Andy Knowles, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1982 Dan Jacobs, American guitarist (Atreyu)
1982 Delwyn Young, American baseball player
1982 Lizzy Caplan American actress (Mean Girls, Marlena Diamond-Cloverfield)
1982 Mitch Maier, American baseball player
1983 Brendon James, British drummer (Thirteen Senses)
1983 Cheryl Cole, British singer (Girls Aloud)
1983 Marlin Jackson, American football player
1983 Patrick Wolf, British musician
1984 Fantasia Barrino, American singer
1984 Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer
1984 Miles Austin, American football player
1985 Cody Rhodes, American wrestler
1985 Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine footballer
1985 Michael Phelps, American swimmer (16 Olympic medals)
1985 Rafal Blechacz, Polish classical pianist
1985 Trevor Ariza, American basketball player
1986 Allegra Versace, Italian heiress
1986 Freddy Guarín, Colombian footballer
1986 Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer
1986 Victoria Crawford, American wrestler and model
1989 Miguel Vítor, Portuguese footballer
1991 Kaho, Japanese actress
Died on June 30th
350 Nepotianus, Roman usurper
1109 Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king of Leon
1181 Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)
1224 Adolf of Osnabrück, Saint Adolf (b. 1185)
1364 Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (b. 1297)
1520 Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, killed
1538 Charles of Egmond, Duke of Guelders, Earl of Zutphen, (b. 1467)
1579 Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, Turkish Janissary (b. 1506)
1607 Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1649 Simon Vouet, French painter
1655 Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands clergyman/lawyer
1660 William Oughtred, English mathematician (b. 1575)
1662 Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter
1666 Adam Krieger, German composer
1666 Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
1670 Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1644)
1685 Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded
1704 John Quelch, English pirate, hanged (b. 1665)
1709 Edward Lhuyd, Welsh scientist (b. 1660)
1785 James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
1792 Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer
1796 Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
1817 Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
1819 Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer
1839 Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead Angel)
1857 Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802)
1862 Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1882 Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1882 Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield, hanged (b. 1841) * See Song of The Day
1889 Eugenio Terziani, composer
1890 Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819)
1899 Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri)
1904 Thomas Emmett, cricketer (English Test bowler of the sostenuter)
1905 John Hay, US politician
1914 Bai Long (White Wolf), Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader
1917 Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (b. 1861)
1919 John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
1919 John W S Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904)
1920 Lena Christ, writer
1923 Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer
1924 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer (Pypelyntjes)
1934 Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
1934 Ernst Rohm, German staff member, killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders
1934 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders
1934 Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1862)
1934 Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders
1934 Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (1932-33), killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders
1934 Night of the Long Knives murders: Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882), Gregor Strasser, former German Nazi politician (b. 1892), Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862), Karl Ernst, German SA-gruppenführer (b. 1904), Erich Klausener, German catholic politician (b. 1885)
1935 William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99)
1938 Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme)
1942 Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed
1946 Michael Zadora, composer
1948 Karl Wolfskehl, writer
1953 Charles William Miller, father of football in Brazil (b. 1874)
1953 Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book)
1953 Gote Carlid, composer
1956 Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
1959 José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
1959 Lazare Saminsky, composer
1960 Clarence Cameron White, composer
1961 Lee de Forest, American inventor (Electron Tube) (b. 1873)
1962 Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist
1965 Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks)
1966 Giuseppe Farina, Italian Formula One champion. First person to win an F1 championship. (b. 1906)
1968 John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight)
1969 Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer
1971 Crew of Soyu
1971 Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1971 Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
1971 Soviet crew of Soyuz 11
Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928)
Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
1971 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11)
1973 Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R Ukrainian-born Canadian Bishop and Martyr (b. 1903)
1973 Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen
1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church
1974 Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician (b. 1890)
1976 Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1979 Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician
1980 Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail, Temptress)
1983 Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer
1983 Mary Livingstone (Sadye Marks) Comedienne, (Jack Benny)
1984 Lillian Hellman, American playwright (Little Foxes) (b. 1905)
1985 Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (murdered) (b. 1933)
1985 James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie)
1987 Federico Mompou, composer
1987 King Donovan, actor/director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough)
1992 Doug Delauder, entertainer
1992 Jim Alaimo, vocalist
1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social)
1993 George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (Our Gang) (b. 1928)
1993 Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962)
1994 Nicholas Warner, test Pilot,
1995 Barney Simon, theatre director/writer
1995 Gale Gordon, American actor, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy) (b. 1906)
1995 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 3) (b. 1921)
1995 Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (Prime of My Life), suicide (b. 1949)
1995 Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe (1972-1973)
1996 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet
1996 Margaux Hemingway, model,actress (Lipstick), commits suicide
1996 Michael Parkin, journalist
1996 Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist
1997 Larry O'Day, Australian wrestler (b. 1944)
2001 Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer (b. 1924)
2001 Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
2002 Chico Xavier, popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement (b. 1910)
2003 Buddy Hackett, American comic (b. 1924)
2003 Robert McCloskey, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
2004 Jamal Abro, Pakistani (Sindhi) writer (b. 1924)
2005 Clancy Eccles, Jamaican Reggae Musician (b. 1940)
2006 Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2007 Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2009 Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
2010 Park Yong-ha, Korean actor and singer (b. 1977)
2011 Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and business man (b. 1947)
2012 Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister
2014 Bob Hastings, American actor
2014 Paul Mazursky, American film director and screenwriter
2016 Geoffrey Hill, English poet
