June 30 facts for kids

June 30th is a day filled with many interesting events throughout history, from important battles and scientific discoveries to the births and deaths of famous people. It's a day when many things happened that shaped the world we live in today.

Historical Events on June 30

Ancient Times and Middle Ages

• In 296, Pope Marcellinus began his time as the leader of the Catholic Church.
• In 763, the Byzantine army, led by Emperor Constantine V, won a big victory over the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
• The Battle of Arbedo took place in 1422 between the Duke of Milan and the Swiss regions.
• In 1521, Spanish forces defeated a combined French and Navarrese army in the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Navarre.
• A sad accident happened in 1559 when King Henry II of France was badly hurt during a jousting match and later died.
• In 1598, the Spanish fort Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico, surrendered to English forces after being surrounded for fifteen days.

From the 1600s to the 1900s

• The University of Tartu was founded in 1632, becoming an important place for learning.
• In 1651, the Battle of Berestechko ended with a Polish victory during a large uprising.
• A group called the "Immortal Seven" sent an important invitation in 1688 that led to the Glorious Revolution in England.
• The Battle of Ekeren took place in 1703 between Dutch and French armies.
• During the Seven Years' War in 1758, Austrian forces stopped a Prussian supply convoy, which helped push Frederick the Great out of Moravia.
• In 1794, Native American forces attacked Fort Recovery during the Northwest Indian War.
• The Michigan Territory was officially created in 1805 by the U.S. Congress.
• A famous acrobat named Charles Blondin amazed everyone in 1859 by crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
• A very important discussion about evolution happened in 1860 at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
• In 1864, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln set aside Yosemite Valley for public enjoyment and recreation, making it one of the first protected natural areas.
• The first train trip across Canada began in Montreal, Quebec, in 1886, arriving in British Columbia a few days later.
• The Homestead Strike, a major labor dispute, started near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1892.
• In 1900, a large fire at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey, caused great damage to three steamships and resulted in many casualties.

Modern Events (1901–Present)

• In 1905, Albert Einstein sent his groundbreaking article about special relativity for publication, changing how we understand space and time.
• The United States Congress passed important laws in 1906, including the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, to ensure food safety.
• The Tunguska Event occurred in 1908, causing a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia, likely from a meteoroid. It was the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history.
• Canada's deadliest tornado, the Regina Cyclone, hit Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1912, killing 28 people.
• During World War I in 1916, many soldiers from the Royal Sussex Regiment suffered heavy losses in the Battle of the Boar's Head in France.
• In 1921, U.S. President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William Howard Taft as the Chief Justice of the United States.
• The United States occupation of the Dominican Republic officially ended in 1922 with the signing of an agreement in Washington D.C.
• The "Night of the Long Knives" took place in 1934, a violent event where Adolf Hitler removed his political opponents in Germany.
• In 1936, Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia asked the League of Nations for help against Italy's invasion of his country.
• The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, was introduced in London in 1937.
• During World War II in 1944, the Battle of Cherbourg ended with American forces capturing the important port.
• The very first Chevrolet Corvette car was made in Flint, Michigan, in 1953.
• A tragic mid-air collision happened in 1956 above the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people on two airliners.
• The Belgian Congo gained its independence in 1960, becoming the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
• In 1963, a car bomb in Palermo killed seven police and military personnel.
• The National Organization for Women, a large feminist group in the United States, was founded in 1966.
• Pope Paul VI issued an important religious document called the Credo of the People of God in 1968.
• The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft tragically died in 1971 when their air supply escaped through a faulty valve.
• The first leap second was added to the UTC time system in 1972.
• The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 began in 1974.
• The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was officially dissolved in 1977.
• In 1985, 39 American hostages from a hijacked plane were finally freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• The U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling in 1986 that allowed states to outlaw certain private acts between consenting adults.
• A coup d'état in Sudan in 1989 removed the elected government.
• East and West Germany joined their economies in 1990, a step towards reunification.
• In 2009, Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 people. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari was the only survivor.
• Nineteen firefighters bravely died in 2013 while fighting a large wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.
• Also in 2013, protests began in Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi, which led to his overthrow.
• A military aircraft with 113 people on board crashed in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, in 2015, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
• In 2019, Donald Trump became the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
• The Tiger Fire started near Black Canyon City, Arizona, in 2021, burning over 16,000 acres of land.

Famous Birthdays on June 30

Born Before the 1900s

• 1470 – Charles VIII of France, a French king.
• 1478 – John, Prince of Asturias, the son of famous Spanish rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.
• 1685 – John Gay, an English poet and playwright.
• 1789 – Horace Vernet, a French painter.
• 1791 – Félix Savart, a French physicist.
• 1817 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, an English botanist and explorer.
• 1859 – Charles Blondin, a French acrobat famous for crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
• 1864 – Frederick Bligh Bond, an English architect and archaeologist.
• 1884 – Georges Duhamel, a French author.
• 1890 – Paul Boffa, a Maltese physician and former Prime Minister of Malta.
• 1891 – Stanley Spencer, an English painter.
• 1899 – Madge Bellamy, an American actress.

Born in the 1900s and 2000s

• 1905 – John Van Ryn, an American tennis player.
• 1906 – Anthony Mann, an American film director.
• 1908 – Winston Graham, an English author.
• 1909 – Juan Bosch, a former President of the Dominican Republic.
• 1911 – Czesław Miłosz, a Polish novelist and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, a Portuguese general and former President of Portugal.
• 1917 – Susan Hayward, an American actress, and Lena Horne, an American actress, singer, and activist.
• 1919 – Ed Yost, the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon.
• 1926 – Paul Berg, an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1934 – Harry Blackstone Jr., an American magician.
• 1936 – Nancy Dussault, an American actress and singer.
• 1938 – Billy Mills, an American Olympic sprinter.
• 1942 – Robert Ballard, an American oceanographer famous for finding the Titanic.
• 1943 – Florence Ballard, an American pop/soul singer.
• 1944 – Terry Funk, an American wrestler.
• 1951 – Stanley Clarke, an American bass player and composer.
• 1954 – Serzh Sargsyan, a former President of Armenia.
• 1958 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, a Finnish conductor and composer.
• 1959 – Vincent D'Onofrio, an American actor.
• 1960 – Murray Cook, an Australian musician, known from The Wiggles.
• 1963 – Yngwie Malmsteen, a Swedish guitarist and songwriter.
• 1965 – Mike Tyson, an American boxer and actor.
• 1969 – Sanath Jayasuriya, a Sri Lankan cricketer and politician.
• 1971 – Monica Potter, an American actress.
• 1972 – Molly Parker, a Canadian actress.
• 1975 – Ralf Schumacher, a German race car driver.
• 1982 – Lizzy Caplan, an American actress.
• 1983 – Cheryl, an English singer and TV personality.
• 1984 – Fantasia Barrino, an American singer.
• 1985 – Michael Phelps, an American swimmer, one of the most decorated Olympians ever, and Cody Rhodes, an American wrestler.
• 1986 – Alicia Fox, an American wrestler.
• 1993 – Trea Turner, an American baseball player.
• 1997 – A. J. Brown, an American football player.

Notable Deaths on June 30

Died Before the 1900s

• 710 – Erentrude, a Frankish abbess.
• 1181 – Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, a Welsh politician.
• 1224 – Adolf of Osnabrück, a German monk and bishop.
• 1522 – Johann Reuchlin, a German humanist scholar.
• 1649 – Simon Vouet, a French painter.
• 1660 – William Oughtred, an English mathematician.
• 1670 – Henrietta of England, a princess.
• 1709 – Edward Lhuyd, a Welsh botanist and linguist.
• 1785 – James Oglethorpe, an English general and the first Colonial Governor of Georgia.
• 1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, a French zoologist and paleontologist.
• 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau, the person who assassinated U.S. President James A. Garfield.

Died in the 1900s and 2000s

• 1919 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, an English physicist who won a Nobel Prize.
• 1934 – Several German political figures, including Kurt von Schleicher, a former Chancellor of Germany, died during the "Night of the Long Knives."
• 1949 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, a French financier.
• 1953 – Elsa Beskow, a Swedish author and illustrator.
• 1961 – Lee de Forest, an American inventor who created the audion tube.
• 1966 – Giuseppe Farina, an Italian race car driver.
• 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft, including Georgy Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov, died during their mission.
• 1973 – Nancy Mitford, an English journalist and author.
• 1974 – Alberta Williams King, a civil rights activist and mother of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1984 – Lillian Hellman, an American author and playwright.
• 1985 – Haruo Remeliik, the first President of Palau.
• 1995 – Gale Gordon, an American actor.
• 2001 – Chet Atkins, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, and Joe Henderson, an American saxophonist.
• 2003 – Buddy Hackett, an American actor and comedian.
• 2009 – Pina Bausch, a German dancer and choreographer.
• 2012 – Yitzhak Shamir, a former Prime Minister of Israel.
• 2014 – Paul Mazursky, an American actor and director.
• 2017 – Simone Veil, a French lawyer and politician.
• 2022 – Technoblade, a popular American YouTuber and streamer.

Holidays and Observances

• Asteroid Day is an International observance to raise awareness about asteroids.
• Independence Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo) celebrates the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium in 1960.
• Philippine–Spanish Friendship Day is celebrated in the Philippines.
• Teachers' Day is observed in the Dominican Republic.

See also

In Spanish: 30 de junio para niños