June 30

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on June 30. From 1900 until now. June 30 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Mike Tyson (1966), Michael Phelps (1985) and Cheryl Cole (1983). Several movies were released around June 30 over the years, such as Inception in 2010 directed by Christopher Nolan and Come and See in 1985 directed by Elem Klimov.
But much more happened on June 30 over the years: find out below

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Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
First Martyrs of the See of Rome.

Events

2019 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Four humvees packed with explosives controlled by suicide bombers kill 23, including eight election workers, in the province of Kandahar. The Taliban claimed 57 were killed. (Reuters)
2018 2017–18 Iranian protests: A peaceful protest over a water shortage in the southern Iran city of Khorramshahr turns violent after clashes between police and protesters. (CNN)
2017 Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon: Lebanese Armed Forces are attacked by five suicide bombers and other militants during a raid of two Syrian refugee camps in Arsal near the Syrian border. The army reports a girl was killed in one of the suicide attacks, seven soldiers were also wounded, and 350 people, including several ISIL officials, were detained during the sweep. (Reuters) (AP via ABC News)
2016 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): An Afghan National Security Forces convoy outside Kabul is attacked in a coordinated ambush including suicide bombers and heavy machine guns resulting in over 40 deaths. (BBC)
2015 al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: Some 1,200 people escape from a Yemeni prison including al Qaeda members. (AP via TVNZ)
2014 Post-coup unrest in Egypt: A police officer was killed and several others wounded in a small explosion near the presidential palace in Cairo. A second officer was killed while defusing another bomb at the same site. (Reuters) (The Voice of Russia)
2013 175 prisoners in the southern Nigeria town of Akure are freed by armed gunmen who also kill two civilians during the raid. (Reuters)
2012 Syrian uprising (2011–present):
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 United States
2009 Minnesota Supreme Court rules Al Franken is the winner of the November 2008 election as US Senator, by a margin of 312 votes. This gives the Democrats 60 senators in Congress.
2008 US President George Bush signs a US$162 billion war spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan.
2007 ''Glasgow International Airport attack:''
2006 A judge orders the arrest of former Mexican President Luis Echeverría on charges relating to the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. (Reuters)
2005 In Belgium, the Parliament Speaker Herman De Croo cancels a lunch with a delegation from the Iranian parliament, led by Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, because of the Iranians' insistence on not serving alcoholic drinks, and a meeting with senate president Anne-Marie Lizin because of the men in the delegation refusing to shake hands with her, a non-related woman.
2004 The Cassini–Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
2003 Rosario Marin's term as Treasurer of the US ends.
2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Crimes committed on or after this date may be prosecuted by the court.
2000 France defeats Italy 2-1 after extra time in the final of the European Championships, becoming the first team to consecutively win the World Cup and European Championships.
1999 Twenty-three people die when fire consumes the Sealand Youth Training Center in South Korea.
1998 Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada was sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.
1997 Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
1996 Buried Child closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 performances
1994 Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
1993 Les Miserables, opens at Point Theatre, Dublin
1992 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC)
1991 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon
1990 East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1989 Les Miserables, opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia
1988 Sledge Hammer! last aires on ABC-TV
1987 Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time
1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1985 King & I closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 191 performances
1984 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
1983 Total loss of coolant at Embalse nuclear power plant, Argentina. It was classified as an Accident With Local Consequences ampndash level 4 at the International Nuclear Event Scale
1982 Lena Horne: Lady, Music closes at Nederlander NYC after 333 performances
1980 West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
1979 Got To Go Disco closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
1978 English Prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
1977 Marvel Comics publish Kiss book tributing rock group Kiss
1976 John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 metre, 4:51.4.
1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
1974 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala
1973 Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour, TV Variety
1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
1971 Biesheuvel government forms
1970 Colorado State College changes its name to University of Northern Colorado.
1969 Derek Clayton of Australia sets marathon record at 2:08:34.
1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives Order of October Revolution
1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black Astronaut
1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise.
1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open
1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
1961 Explorer 12 fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 US stops sugar import from Cuba
1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, two balls are in play at same time.
1958 No Chemise, Please by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24
1956 Pipe Dream closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 245 performances
1955 Johnny Carson Show, debuts on CBS-TV
1954 Largest check: Internal US Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
1953 1st Corvette manufactured
1952 Guiding Light soap opera moves from radio to TV
1951 Victor Borge Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1950 US General MacArthur visits front in South Korea / asks for US troops
1949 Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta
1948 Last British armies leave Israel
1946 The War Relocation Authority is abolished.
1945 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins
1944 Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
1943 Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)
1942 144 U-boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
1940 Brenda Starr cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1938 ''Action Comics #1'' is published, which is the first publication featuring the comic book character ''Superman''.
1936 Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy
1935 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1934 Night of Long Knives, Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1933 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism / war
1930 First round-the-world radio broadcast, Schenectady, New York.
1929 33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot Country Club - New York
1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards
1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes.
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica.
1921 U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
1918 In Richardton, North Dakota, USA, a chondrite meteorite falls striking a building.
1916 22nd US Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club, Minnesota
1914 Among those addressing the Parliament of the United Kingdom on the murdered Archduke are Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in the House of Lords and Messrs Asquith and Law in the Commons.
1913 New York Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Philadelphia Phillies 11-1.
1912 The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
1911 Adolphe Messimy appointed French Minister of War
1910 Russia absorbs Finland
1909 Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
1908 The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1906 John Hope becomes 1st black President of Morehouse College
1905 Albert Einstein publishes the article ''On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies'', in which he introduces special relativity.
1902 Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive HRs in same inning
1900 A wharf fire at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey owned by the North German Lloyd Steamship line spreads to German passenger ships ''.'' The fire engulfs the adjacent piers and nearby ships, killing 326 people.
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