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
- 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.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: The Battle of Domstadtl takes place.
- 1859 –French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 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.
- 1935 –The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
- 1941 –World War II: Operation Barbarossa – Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
- 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.
- 1971 –Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
- 1971 –The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
- 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.
- 2009 –Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, near Comoros, killing all but one of the 153 passengers and crew on board.
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