About June 30

June 30, 2024 is the 182nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 184 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 213 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 30

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1906 –
    The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 –
    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.
  • 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.
  • 1991 –
    32 miners are killed when a coal mine catches fire in the Donbass region of Ukraine and releases toxic gas.

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