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
- 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.
- 1688 –The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.
- 1805 –The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
- 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.
- 1906 –The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
- 1921 –U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1971 –The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
- 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.
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