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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