Events
350
– Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian
dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops
of the usurper Magnentius, in Rome.
1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke
of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1520 – Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán
Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan.
1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally
wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel
de Montgomery.
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 English rebellion
from Rome), which would culminate in the
Glorious Revolution.
1758 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of
Domstadtl takes place.
1794 – Native American forces under Blue
Jacket attack Fort Recovery.
1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the
Michigan Territory.
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.
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.
1886 – The first transcontinental train
trip across Canada departs from Montreal.
It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia
on July 4.
1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,
in which he introduces special relativity.
1906 – The United States Congress passes
the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food
and Drug Act.
1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote
Siberia.
1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina,
Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's
deadliest tornado event.
1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding
appoints former President William Howard
Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
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.
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf
Hitler's violent purge of his political
rivals in Germany, takes place.
1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party
holds its first congress.
1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia
appeals for aid to the League of Nations
against Italy's invasion of his country.
1937 – The world's first emergency telephone
number, 999, is introduced in London
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cherbourg
ends with the fall of the strategically
valuable port to American forces.
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls
off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
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.
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.
1960 – Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb,
intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco,
kills seven police officers and military
personnel near Palermo.
1966 – The National Organization for Women,
the United States' largest feminist organization,
is founded.
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.
1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the
voting age to 18, thereby putting the
amendment into effect.
1972 – The first leap second is added
to the UTC time system.
1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
disbands.
1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from
the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed
in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in
Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw
homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces
the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge
their economies.
1991 – 32 miners are killed when a coal
mine catches fire in the Donbass region
of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.
1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty
over Hong Kong to the People's Republic
of China.
2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into
the Indian Ocean, near Comoros, killing
all but one of the 153 passengers and
crew on board.
Holidays
and observances
Army
Day (Guatemala)
Christian Feast Day:
Martial
Theobald of Provins
First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
June 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
General Prayer Day (Central African Republic)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Democratic Republic of the Congo from
Belgium in 1960.
Philippine–Spanish Friendship Day (Philippines)
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