What are the important events that happened on June 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 30: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 30 is the 181st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 184 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 17, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,187,360 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontahenagon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac 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 232 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,574 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 30 Historical Events
- 1805 –The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.
- 1882 –Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- 1908 –The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
- 1936 –Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy’s invasion of his country.
- 1941 –World War II: Operation Barbarossa – Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
- 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.
- 1969 –Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra.
- 1972 –The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
- 1990 –East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
- 2009 –Yemenia Flight 626 crashes into the Indian Ocean, near Comoros, killing all but one of the 153 passengers and crew on board.
Who were born on June 30?
- 1884 –Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966)
- 1912 –Dan Reeves, American sports team owner (d. 1971)
- 1940 –Mark Spoelstra, American folk singer (d. 2007)
- 1941 –Peter Pollock, South African cricket player
- 1942 –Robert Ballard, American oceanographer
- 1942 –Ron Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1944 –Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
- 1949 –Uwe Kliemann, German footballer
- 1963 –Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist
- 1981 –Matt Kirk, Canadian football player
Who died on June 30?
- 1538 –Charles, Duke of Guelders, Dutch nobleman (b. 1467)
- 1607 –Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538)
- 1966 –Giuseppe Farina, Italian Formula One driver, the winner of the first Formula One championship (b. 1906)
- 1971 –Soviet crew of Soyuz 11: Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
- 1984 –Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)
- 1985 –Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)
- 1995 –Phyllis Hyman, American jazz vocalist (b. 1949)
- 2001 –Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1937)
- 2009 –Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
- 2009 –Robert DePugh, American anti-Communist activist (b. 1923)
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