1800s / 19th century history on the 30th of June
1859 : Charles Blondin the French acrobat walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. He successfully crossed 340 metres (1,100 feet) across the Niagara Gorge.
1864 : Abraham Lincoln the U.S. President granted Yosemite Valley to California, for the public to use, as a resort and for recreation.
1886 : The 1st transcontinental train trip across Canada departed from Montreal, in Quebec, on its first journey to Port Moody, in British Columbia. The train arrived there within 4 days, on the 4th of July.
1900s / 20th century history on the 30th of June
1905 : Albert Einstein introduced special relativity, in the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, which he sent to Annalen der Physik for publication.
1908 : The TUNGUSKA EVENT : The LARGEST iMPACT event on Earth. It resulted in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia, in Russia, which flattened approximately 80 million trees in a forest area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq miles). The explosion was said to be the air burst of a stony meteoroid about 100 metres (330 feet) in size, while it was travelling about 5 to 10 kilometres (3 to 6 miles) from the surface of Earth, where it most likely disintegrated at that altitude, due to no impact crater being found.
1912 : Canada’s deadliest tornado hit Regina, in Saskatchewan, resulting in the deaths of 28 people.
1936 : Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was published, and became one of the best-selling novels of all time. Margaret Mitchell was forced to quit her job as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal in 1926, to recover from a series of physical injuries. With a lot of time on her hands, she grew restless, and started telling the story of an Atlanta belle named Pansy O’Hara on her Remington typewriter, in a cramped one-bedroom apartment with her husband. The book was the basis for a 1939 movie.
1937 : The world’s first emergency telephone number was introduced, in London. 999 was the first official emergency telephone number used, followed by 25 other countries.
1944 : Glenn Shorrock (AM) the English-Australian singer-songwriter was born in Chatham, Kent, England. He is the founding member of 4 rock bands : Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band, and Birtles Shorrock Goble. He is internationally known as the lead singer of Little River Band, which had music chart success overseas, which included the songs he wrote : Emma, Help Is on Its Way, and Cool Change. Official websites : GlennShorrock.com | ShorrockBirtlesGoble.com
1953 : The first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Michigan, USA, at the athe factory in Flint.
1956 : Grand Canyon mid-air collision in Arizona, USA : TWA Super Constellation and United Airlines DC-7 aircrafts collided over the Grand Canyon, USA. Both planes plunged to the ground at great speed, with the DC-7 plummeting to the ground at up to 770 km/h (480 mph). The crash killed all 128 people on board both airliners.
1959 : United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre crashed into a school in Okinawa, Japan. The aircraft became uncontrollable during a training or test flight from Kadena Air Base, and crashed into Miyamori Elementary School and neighbouring houses, near the city of Ishikawa. The crash killed 11 students and 6 people in the surrounding neighbourhood, which left a total of 210 people injured, of which included 156 students.
1963 : Yngwie Malmsteen the Swedish guitarist and songwriter was born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck in Stockholm, Sweden. Official website : YngwieMalmsteen.com
1966 : The National Organization for Women was founded. It became the largest feminist organization in the United States, with 550 chapters in all 50 states, and in Washington, D.C. Official website : NOW.org
1966 : Mike Tyson the American former professional boxer was born in New York City, USA.
1971 : The Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft crew were all killed, when their air supply escaped through a faulty valve.
1972 : The first leap second was added to the UTC time system, which is a 1 second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time.
1978 : Ben Cousins the Australian footballer was born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
1986 : Allegra Versace the Italian-American heiress and director of Versace fashion company, was born in Milan, Italy. Official website : versace.com
1990 : East Germany and West Germany merged their economies.
1994 : Airbus Industrie A330-321 test flight crashed at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, killed all 7 people on board.
2000s / 21st century history on the 30th of June
2001 : Chet Atkins the American singer-songwriter and guitarist died aged 77 (born in 1924). Official website : MisterGuitar.us
2009 : Yemenia Flight 626 Airbus A310-300 crashed into the Indian Ocean on approach to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport, near Comoros. The crashed killed 152 of the 153 people on board, leaving only 1 survivor, a 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari, who had no life vest and could barely swim, held on to a piece of aircraft wreckage in heavy seas in complete darkness for more than 9 hours, before she was rescued.
2013 : Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona killed 19 firefighters from the Granite Mountain Hotshots the department from the Prescott Fire Department, whose mission was to fight wildfires. The fire destroyed 129 buildings in an area of 8,400 acres (34 km2).
2015 : Sumatra Indonesian Air Force Hercules C-130 military aircraft crashed in a residential area of Medan, in Indonesia. The crash killed all of the 122 people on board, and also killed 17 people on the ground.
2019 : Donald Trump became the first sitting US President to visit North Korea aka the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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