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 182nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 184 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 17, 2020 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 26,557,920 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 ‘hectaoctacontadigon’ 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 227 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 2,748 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 30 Historical Events
- 1422 –Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
- 1864 –U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.
- 1882 –Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- 1905 –Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
- 1922 –In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
- 1963 –Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.
- 1968 –Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
- 1969 –Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
- 1971 –The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
- 1985 –Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
Who were born on June 30?
- 1884 –Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
- 1931 –Bert Eriksson, Flemish neo-Nazi (d. 2005)
- 1934 –Harry Blackstone Jr., American stage magician (d. 1997)
- 1935 –John Harlin, American mountaineer (d. 1966)
- 1942 –Robert Ballard, American oceanographer
- 1942 –Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960 –Murray Cook, Australian singer (The Wiggles)
- 1965 –Gary Pallister, English footballer
- 1973 –Noam Zylberman, Israeli-born Canadian actor
- 1986 –Nicola Pozzi, Italian footballer
Who died on June 30?
- 1666 –Alexander Brome, English poet (b. 1620)
- 1796 –Abraham Yates, American Congressman (b. 1724)
- 1882 –Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
- 1934 –Night of the Long Knives murders: Gregor Strasser, former German Nazi politician (b. 1892)
- 1934 –Night of the Long Knives murders: Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1862)
- 1956 –Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
- 1971 –Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
- 1995 –Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1921)
- 2009 –Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
- 2011 –Barry Bremen, American sports imposter and business man (b. 1947)
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