June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 184 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus , of the Constantinian dynasty , is defeated and killed in Rome by troops of the usurper Magnentius .
763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus .
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 .
1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre .
1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery .
1651 – The Deluge : Khmelnytsky Uprising : The Battle of Berestechko 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 .
1892 – The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .
1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies , in which he introduces special relativity , for publication in Annalen der Physik .
1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act .
1917 – World War I : The Kingdom of Greece declares war on the Central Powers .
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.
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 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
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 bombing : 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 .
1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
1974 – The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
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.
1990 – East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
2013 – Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona .
2015 – A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia , resulting in at least 116 deaths.
156 BC – Wu of Han , seventh emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty (d. 87 BC)
1286 – John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey , English magnate (d. 1347)
1470 – Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
1468 – John, Elector of Saxony (d. 1532)
1478 – John, Prince of Asturias , Son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (d. 1497)
1503 – John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1554)
1588 – Giovanni Maria Sabino , Italian organist, composer, and educator (d. 1649)
1641 – Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg , German-English general (d. 1719)
1685 – John Gay , English poet and playwright (d. 1732)
1688 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I , ruler of Tunisia (d. 1756)
1722 – Jiří Antonín Benda , Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeister (d. 1795)
1755 – Paul Barras , French soldier and politician (d. 1829)
1789 – Horace Vernet , French painter and academic (d. 1863)
1791 – Félix Savart , French physicist and psychologist (d. 1841)
1801 – Frédéric Bastiat , French economist and theorist (d. 1850)
1803 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes , English poet, playwright, and physician (d. 1849)
1807 – Friedrich Theodor Vischer , German author, poet, and playwright (d.1887)
1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker , English botanist and explorer (d. 1911)
1843 – Ernest Mason Satow , English orientalist and diplomat (d. 1929)
1864 – Frederick Bligh Bond , English architect and archaeologist (d. 1945)
1884 – Georges Duhamel , French author and critic (d. 1966)
1889 – Archibald Frazer-Nash , English motor car designer, engineer and founder of Frazer Nash (d. 1965)
1890 – Paul Boffa , Maltese physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 1962)
1891 – Man Mountain Dean , American wrestler and sergeant (d. 1953)
1891 – Ed Lewis , American wrestler and manager (d. 1966)
1891 – Stanley Spencer , English painter (d. 1959)
1892 – Pierre Blanchar , Algerian-French actor and director (d. 1963)
1892 – Bo Carter , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1962)
1892 – Oswald Pohl , German SS officer (d. 1951)
1893 – Walter Ulbricht , German soldier and politician (d. 1973)
1895 – Heinz Warneke , German-American sculptor and educator (d. 1983)
1899 – Madge Bellamy , American actress (d. 1990)
1906 – Anthony Mann , American actor and director (d. 1967)
1907 – Roman Shukhevych , Ukrainian general and politician (d. 1950)
1908 – Winston Graham , English author (d. 2003)
1911 – Czesław Miłosz , Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1912 – Ludwig Bölkow , German engineer (d. 2003)
1912 – Dan Reeves , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1971)
1913 – Alfonso López Michelsen , Colombian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Colombia (d. 2007)
1913 – Harry Wismer , American sportscaster (d. 1967)
1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes , Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (d. 2001)
1914 – Allan Houser , American sculptor and painter (d. 1994)
1917 – Susan Hayward , American actress (d. 1975)
1917 – Lena Horne , American actress, singer, and activist (d. 2010)
1917 – Willa Kim , American costume designer (d. 2016)
1919 – Ed Yost , American inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 2007)
1920 – Eleanor Ross Taylor , American poet and educator (d. 2011)
1925 – Fred Schaus , American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
1926 – Paul Berg , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1926 – David Berglas , American magician and mentalist
1927 – James Goldman , American screenwriter and playwright (d. 1998)
1930 – Thomas Sowell , American economist, philosopher, and author
1931 – Yo-Yo Davalillo , Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
1931 – Andrew Hill , American pianist and composer (d. 2007)
1933 – Tomislav Ivić , Croatian football coach and manager (d. 2011)
1933 – M. J. K. Smith , English cricketer and rugby player
1933 – Orval Tessier , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1933 – Joan Murrell Owens , American educator and marine biologist (d. 2011)
1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr. , American magician and author (d. 1997)
1935 – John Harlin , American pilot and mountaineer (d. 1966)
1936 – Assia Djebar , Algerian-French author and translator (d. 2015)
1936 – Nancy Dussault , American actress and singer
1936 – Tony Musante , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1936 – Dave Van Ronk , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1937 – Larry Henley , American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1939 – Tony Hatch , English pianist, composer, and producer
1939 – Barry Hines , English author and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1939 – José Emilio Pacheco , Mexican poet and author (d. 2014)
1940 – Mark Spoelstra , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
1941 – Peter Pollock , South African cricketer and author
1941 – Otto Sander , German actor and director (d. 2013)
1942 – Robert Ballard , American lieutenant and oceanographer
1942 – Ron Harris , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1943 – Saeed Akhtar Mirza , Indian director and screenwriter
1944 – Raymond Moody , American parapsychologist and author
1944 – Glenn Shorrock , English-Australian singer-songwriter
1944 – Ron Swoboda , American baseball player and sportscaster
1949 – Uwe Kliemann , German footballer, coach, and manager
1949 – Andy Scott , Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1951 – Stanley Clarke , American bass player and composer
1952 – Athanassios S. Fokas , Greek mathematician and academic
1952 – David Garrison , American actor and singer
1953 – Hal Lindes , American-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Stephen Barlow , English organist, composer, and conductor
1954 – Pierre Charles , Dominican educator and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2004)
1954 – Serzh Sargsyan , Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia
1954 – Wayne Swan , Australian academic and politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
1955 – Brian Vollmer , Canadian singer
1956 – Volker Beck , German hurdler and coach
1956 – David Lidington , English historian, academic, and politician, Minister of State for Europe
1956 – David Alan Grier , American actor, singer, and comedian
1957 – Bud Black , American baseball player and manager
1957 – Sterling Marlin , American race car driver
1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen , Finnish conductor and composer
1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio , American actor
1959 – Daniel Goldhagen , American political scientist, author, and academic
1959 – Brendan Perry , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 – Sakis Tsiolis , Greek footballer and manager
1959 – Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma , Indian-English businesswoman and politician
1960 – Murray Cook , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1960 – Jack McConnell , Scottish educator and politician, 3rd First Minister of Scotland
1961 – Lynne Jolitz , American computer scientist and programmer
1961 – Clive Nolan , English musician, composer and producer
1962 – Tony Fernández , Dominican baseball player
1962 – Julianne Regan , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Olha Bryzhina , Ukrainian sprinter
1963 – Rupert Graves , English actor, director, and screenwriter
1963 – Yngwie Malmsteen , Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1964 – Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
1964 – Mark Waters , American director and producer
1965 – Steve Duchesne , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1965 – Anna Levandi , Russian figure skater and coach
1965 – Gary Pallister , English footballer and sportscaster
1965 – Mitch Richmond , American basketball player
1966 – Mike Tyson , American boxer and actor
1967 – Patrik Bodén , Swedish javelin thrower
1967 – David Busst , English footballer and manager
1967 – Victoria Kaspi , American-Canadian astrophysicist and academic
1968 – Phil Anselmo , American singer-songwriter and producer
1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya , Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
1969 – Uta Rohländer , German sprinter
1969 – Sébastien Rose , Canadian director and screenwriter
1970 – Brian Bloom , American actor and screenwriter
1970 – Antonio Chimenti , Italian footballer and manager
1970 – Mark Grudzielanek , American baseball player and manager
1971 – Monica Potter , American actress
1972 – Sandra Cam , Belgian swimmer
1972 – James Martin , English chef and journalist
1973 – Ümit Davala , Turkish footballer and manager
1973 – Chan Ho Park , South Korean baseball player
1973 – Frank Rost , German footballer and manager
1974 – Hezekiél Sepeng , South African runner
1975 – James Bannatyne , New Zealand footballer
1975 – Ralf Schumacher , German race car driver
1975 – Rami Shaaban , Swedish footballer
1977 – Mark van Gisbergen , New Zealand-English rugby player
1977 – Justo Villar , Paraguayan footballer
1978 – Ben Cousins , Australian footballer
1978 – Patrick Ivuti , Kenyan runner
1978 – Claudio Rivalta , Italian footballer
1979 – Matisyahu , American rapper and actor
1979 – Sylvain Chavanel , French cyclist
1980 – Rade Prica , Swedish footballer
1980 – Seyi Olofinjana , Nigerian footballer
1980 – Ryan ten Doeschate , Dutch cricketer
1981 – Can Artam , Turkish race car driver
1981 – Matt Kirk , Canadian football player
1981 – Ben Utecht , American football player
1982 – Lizzy Caplan , American actress
1982 – Ignacio Carrasco , Mexican footballer
1982 – Otis Harris , American sprinter
1982 – Andy Knowles , English drummer and producer
1982 – Mitch Maier , American baseball player
1982 – Delwyn Young , American baseball player
1983 – Marcus Burghardt , German cyclist
1983 – Cheryl , English singer, dancer and television personality
1983 – Cole Swindell , American singer-songwriter
1983 – Patrick Wolf , English singer-songwriter
1984 – Miles Austin , American football player
1984 – Gabriel Badilla , Costa Rican footballer (d. 2016)
1984 – Fantasia Barrino , American singer-songwriter and actress
1985 – Trevor Ariza , American basketball player
1985 – Michael Phelps , American swimmer
1985 – Fabiana Vallejos , Argentinian footballer
1986 – Alicia Fox , American wrestler, model, and actress
1986 – Fredy Guarín , Colombian footballer
1986 – Nicola Pozzi , Italian footballer
1986 – Allegra Versace , Italian-American businesswoman
1987 – Ryan Cook , American baseball player
1987 – Andrew Hedgman , New Zealand runner
1988 – Jack Douglass , American YouTuber
1988 – Jeff Kobernus , American baseball player
1989 – Asbel Kiprop , Kenyan runner
1989 – Steffen Liebig , German rugby player
1989 – David Myers , Australian footballer
1989 – Miguel Vítor , Portuguese footballer
1993 – Patrick Rastner , Italian luger
1994 – Rhys Jones , Welsh sprinter
1997 – Iryna Shymanovich , Belarusian tennis player
1998 – Tom Davies , English footballer
350 – Nepotianus , Roman ruler
710 – Erentrude , Frankish abbess
888 – Æthelred , archbishop of Canterbury
1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester , Welsh politician (b. 1147)
1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück , German monk and bishop (b. 1185)
1278 – Pierre de la Broce , French courtier
1364 – Arnošt of Pardubice , Czech archbishop (b. 1297)
1468 – Lady Eleanor Talbot , English noblewoman
1538 – Charles II, Duke of Guelders (b. 1467)
1522 – Johann Reuchlin , German humanist and Hebrew scholar (b. 1455)
1607 – Caesar Baronius , Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
1660 – William Oughtred , English minister and mathematician (b. 1575)
1666 – Alexander Brome , English poet and playwright (b. 1620)
1670 – Henrietta of England (b. 1644)
1704 – John Quelch , English pirate (b. 1665)
1708 – Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1709 – Edward Lhuyd , Welsh botanist, linguist, and geographer (b. 1660)
1785 – James Oglethorpe , English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (b. 1696)
1796 – Abraham Yates Jr. , American lawyer and politician (b. 1724)
1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny , French zoologist and paleontologist (b. 1802)
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau , American preacher and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
1882 – Alberto Henschel , German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827)
1890 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman , American organist and composer (b. 1819)
1913 – Alphonse Kirchhoffer , French fencer (b. 1873)
1917 – Antonio de La Gándara , French painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
1917 – Dadabhai Naoroji , Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader (b. 1825)
1919 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)
1932 – Bruno Kastner , German actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890)
1934 – Karl Ernst , German soldier (b. 1904)
1934 – Erich Klausener , German soldier and politician (b. 1885)
1934 – Gustav Ritter von Kahr , German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1862)
1934 – Gregor Strasser , German lieutenant and politician (b. 1892)
1934 – Kurt von Schleicher , German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
1941 – Yefim Fomin , Belarusian politician (b. 1909)
1941 – Aleksander Tõnisson , Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1875)
1948 – Prince Sabahaddin , Turkish-Swiss sociologist and academic (b. 1879)
1949 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild , French financier and polo player (b. 1868)
1951 – Yrjö Saarela , Finnish wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
1953 – Elsa Beskow , Swedish author and illustrator (b. 1874)
1953 – Charles William Miller , Brazilian footballer and civil servant (b. 1874)
1954 – Andrass Samuelsen , Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1873)
1956 – Thorleif Lund , Norwegian actor (b. 1880)
1959 – José Vasconcelos , Mexican philosopher and politician (b. 1882)
1961 – Lee de Forest , American inventor, invented the audion tube (b. 1873)
1966 – Giuseppe Farina , Italian race car driver (b. 1906)
1968 – Ernst Marcus , German zoologist (b. 1893)
1971 – Georgi Asparuhov , Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
1971 – Herbert Biberman , American director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1971 – Georgy Dobrovolsky Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (b. 1928)
1971 – Nikola Kotkov , Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
1971 – Viktor Patsayev , Kazakh engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
1971 – Vladislav Volkov , Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935)
1973 – Nancy Mitford , English journalist and author (b. 1904)
1973 – Vasyl Velychkovsky , Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (b. 1903)
1974 – Vannevar Bush , American engineer and academic (b. 1890)
1976 – Firpo Marberry , American baseball player and umpire (b. 1898)
1984 – Lillian Hellman , American author and playwright (b. 1905)
1985 – Haruo Remeliik , Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
1995 – Georgy Beregovoy , Ukrainian general and astronaut (b. 1921)
1995 – Gale Gordon , American actor and voice artist (b. 1906)
1996 – Lakis Petropoulos , Greek footballer and manager (b. 1932)
2001 – Chet Atkins , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
2001 – Joe Henderson , American saxophonist and composer (b. 1937)
2002 – Chico Xavier , Brazilian medium and author (b. 1910)
2003 – Buddy Hackett , American actor and comedian (b. 1924)
2003 – Robert McCloskey , American author and illustrator (b. 1915)
2007 – Sahib Singh Verma , Indian librarian and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (b. 1943)
2009 – Pina Bausch , German dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1940)
2009 – Harve Presnell , American actor and singer (b. 1933)
2012 – Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun , English-Australian politician (b. 1942)
2012 – Yitzhak Shamir , Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
2012 – Michael J. Ybarra , American journalist and author (b. 1966)
2013 – Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway , English lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
2013 – Akpor Pius Ewherido , Nigerian politician (b. 1963)
2013 – Kathryn Morrison , American educator and politician (b. 1942)
2013 – Thompson Oliha , Nigerian footballer (b. 1968)
2013 – Keith Seaman , Australian politician, 29th Governor of South Australia (b. 1920)
2014 – Frank Cashen , American businessman (b. 1925)
2014 – Paul Mazursky , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2014 – Željko Šturanović , Montenegrin lawyer and politician, 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (b. 1960)
2015 – Charles W. Bagnal , American general (b. 1934)
2015 – Robert Dewar , English-American computer scientist and academic (b. 1945)
2015 – Arthur Porter , Canadian physician and academic (b. 1956)
2015 – Leonard Starr , American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
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