30 June - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, on June 30, the day number in a year is 181 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 182. June 30 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
June 30 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1559 | During a jousting match, Gabriel Montgomery of the Garde Écossaise mortally wounded King Henry II of France, piercing him in theeye with his lance. |
| 1651 | Khmelnytsky Uprising-Ukrainian Cossacks and their CrimeanTatar allies were annihilated by a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth armyin the Battle of Berestechko, probably the largest land battle in the17th century. |
| 1700 | Started the Gregorian calendar in Gelderland. |
| 1737 | Russo-Turkish War, 1735–1739: According to Field Marshal Munich the Russian army sacked the Ottoman stronghold of Okkov and 4,000 Turks were imprisoned. |
| 1755 | The Philippines closed all non-Catholic Chinese restaurants. |
| 1758 | The Domstatal War of the Seven Years War began. |
| 1853 | Georges-Eugène Haasman was chosen as the priority of the Sen. department) to initiate the rebirth of Paris. |
| 1855 | Santhals of Rajmahal Hills, Santhal-Paragana, Bihar, started their agitation against ill treatment by British, revenue officers, police, landlords and moneylenders under the leadership on Sindhu and Kanhu at Bhoranadhighi, Bengali. |
| 1859 | French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge on atightrope, turning him into one of the world's most famous tightropewalkers. |
| 1859 | Comstock silver laud was discovered in Nevada. |
| 1860 | Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum in Oxford, England. |
| 1860 | A historical debate about development was held at the Oxford University Museum. |
| 1870 | Ada became the first woman to pass her graduation exam from Capele Law College. |
| 1876 | Serbia declared war with Turkey. |
| 1882 | US President's assassin Charles J. Guiteu was hanged in Washington DC. |
| 1886 | Royal Holloway College for Women was established by Queen Victoria in England near London. |
| 1894 | London's Tower Bridge, a combined bascule and suspension bridgeover the River Thames, opened. |
| 1905 | Albert Einstein published his article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" and he revealed his theory of specific relativity. |
| 1908 | A massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, knocking over 80 milliontrees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi). |
| 1914 | Mahatma Gandhi arrested first time during campaigning for rights in South Africa. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. |
| 1914 | Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, was arrested for the first time while agitating for the rights of Indians in South Africa. |
| 1917 | Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji, great Indian, patriot and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, politician and merchant, died at the age of 92. Dadabhai Naoroji known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader. He was a member of parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP. |
| 1921 | Death penalty was abolished in Sweden. |
| 1922 | The United States and the Dominican Republic signed anagreement that ended the former's occupation of the latter two yearslater. |
| 1933 | 50 thousand people demonstrated in Antwerp against fascism. |
| 1934 | Adolf Hitler violently purged members of the Sturmab teilung, its leader Ernst Röhm, and other political rivals in the Night of the Long Knives, executing at least 85 people. |
| 1934 | The Christian dictator, Adolf Hitler, defeated opponents in his National Socialist Party. |
| 1938 | The children's favorite cartoon Superman first appeared in the Comics DC Comics Action Series Part-1). |
| 1947 | After the declaration of the partition of India, the members of the Boundary Commission for the partition of Bengal and Punjab were announced. |
| 1960 | The US decided to stop importing sugar from Cuba. |
| 1962 | The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. |
| 1962 | The last soldier of the French Foreign Legion left Algeria. |
| 1963 | A car bomb intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco killed sevenpolice and military officers near Palermo. |
| 1965 | Cease-fire was agreed under UN auspices between India and Pakistan, who signed treaty to stop the war at Rann of Kutch. The United States and the Soviet Union used significant diplomatic tools to prevent any further escalation in the conflict between the two South Asian nations. The Soviet Union, led by Premier Alexei Kosygin, hosted ceasefire negotiations in Tashkent (now in Uzbekistan), where Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan signed the Tashkent Agreement. |
| 1968 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous journalist and litterateur, passed away. Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi, also called Panditji, was an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and a journalist who is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad, the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi literature. He was awarded the first Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his work Him Taringini in 1955. |
| 1971 | The Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft suffered an uncontrolleddecompression during preparations for reentry, killing cosmonautsVladislav Volkov, Georgiy Dobrovolskiy and Viktor Patsayev—the onlyhuman deaths to occur in space. |
| 1972 | The first leap second is added to the UTC time system. A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth's rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation. |
| 1972 | The International Time Bureau added the first leap second tothe Coordinated Universal Time time scale. |
| 1974 | Municipal workers in Baltimore, Maryland, went on strike seeking higher wages and better conditions. |
| 1981 | President's rule imposed in Assam. President's rule refers to Article 356 of the Constitution of India deals with the failure of the constitutional machinery of an Indian state. In the event that government in a state is not able to function as per the Constitution, the state comes under the direct control of the central government, with executive authority exercised through the Governor instead of a Council of Ministers headed by an elected Chief Minister accountable to the state legislature. |
| 1984 | John Turner becomes the 17th Prime Minister of Canada |
| 1986 | Mizoram became the state of India. Mizoram is one of the states of Northeast India, with Aizawl as its capital. The name is derived from Mi (people), Zo (Belonging to the people of Mizoram/Lushai Hills) and Ram (land), and thus Mizoram implies "land of the hill people". |
| 1987 | The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the Canadian one-dollarcoin, commonly known as the Loonie. |
| 1990 | East Germany and West Germany merged their economies. The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city. The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity. |
| 1990 | East and West Germany merged their economies. |
| 1997 | British rule ended in Hong Kong. |
| 2000 | The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council adopts a resolution seeking separation from J&K. The council was created under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Act 1995, following demands of Ladakhi people to make Leh District a new Indian Union Territory because of its religious and cultural differences with the rest of Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 2000 | US President Bill Clinton legalized digital signatures in the US. |
| 2005 | Gay marriage was legalized in Spain. |
| 2005 | Spain legalized gay marriage. |
| 2007 | In an attempted terrorist attack, a car loaded with propanecanisters was driven into the terminal of Scotland's GlasgowInternational Airport and set ablaze. |
| 2009 | Schoolgirl Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor when Yemenia Flight626 crashed into the Indian Ocean killing 152 people. |
| 2012 | Mohammed Mursi became the President of Egypt. |
Famous Birthdays of June 30:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1951 | Stanley Clarke / Composer / United States of America |
| 1954 | Serzh Sargsyan / Politician / Armenia |
| 1967 | David Busst / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1994 | Rhys Jones / Sprinter / United Kingdom |
| 1934 | Harry Blackstone Jr. / Author / United States of America |
| 1975 | Ralf Schumacher / Racing Car Driver / Germany |
| 1933 | M. J. K. Smith / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 1892 | Oswald Pohl / Army Officer / Germany |
| 1956 | Volker Beck / Hurdler / Germany |
| 1936 | Assia Djebar / Author / Algeria |
| 1980 | Rade Prica / Footballer / Sweden |
| 1966 | Mike Tyson / Actor / United States of America |
| 1641 | Meinhardt Schomberg / King / Germany |
| 1973 | Chan Ho Park / Baseball Player / South Korea |
| 1986 | Fredy Guarín / Footballer / Colombia |
| 1588 | Giovanni Maria Sabino / Composer / Italy |
| 1933 | Joan Murrell Owens / Educator / United States of America |
| 1944 | Raymond Moody / Author / United States of America |
| 1933 | Tomislav Ivić / Footballer / Croatia |
| 1917 | Lena Horne / Actress / United States of America |
| 1972 | James Martin / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 1942 | Robert Ballard / Lieutenant / United States of America |
| 1959 | Daniel Goldhagen / Author / United States of America |
| 1685 | John Gay / Poet / United Kingdom |
| 1919 | Ed Yost / Inventor / United States of America |
| 1978 | Patrick Ivuti / Runner / Kenya |
| 1926 | David Berglas / Magician / United States of America |
| 1965 | Steve Duchesne / Ice Hockey Player / United States of America |
| 1953 | Hal Lindes / Writer / United States of America |
| 1899 | Madge Bellamy / Actress / United States of America |
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