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What are the important events that happened on June 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 30: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 30 is the 181st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 184 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 17, 2022 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 27,609,120 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontahenagon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 206 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,478 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 30 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1908 –The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
- 1960 –Congo gains independence from Belgium.
- 1991 –32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
Who were born on June 30?
- 1917 –Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975)
- 1936 –Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
- 1973 –Noam Zylberman, Israeli-born Canadian actor
- 1975 –Rami Shaaban, Swedish footballer
- 1977 –Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer
Who died on June 30?
- 350 –Nepotianus, Roman usurper
- 1538 –Charles, Duke of Guelders, Dutch nobleman (b. 1467)
- 1959 –José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer and politician (b. 1882)
- 1984 –Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
- 1993 –Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer (b. 1962)
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