This Day In History ????

[Mikael XII]

The best This Day in History newsletter i have had was Daily Today in History

And to give you an example i take a date that i saved:


Daily Today in History

Wednesday, June 30th, 1999

On this day in history ...

06/30/0296 - St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic
Pope
06/30/0833 - Louis, king of Austria, crowned
06/30/0949 - Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of
Utrecht
06/30/1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
06/30/1371 - Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht
06/30/1397 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar
under Queen Margaretha
06/30/1520 - Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from
Aztecs
06/30/1528 - Burgundy army occupies Utrecht
06/30/1548 - Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become
Lutherans
06/30/1559 - Duke of Montgomery wounds king Henri II during
tournament
06/30/1596 - English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
06/30/1598 - King Philip II moves to Escorial palace
06/30/1607 - Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of
Catholicism) published
06/30/1643 - Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat
parliamentary armies
06/30/1648 - French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint
Louis Chamber together
06/30/1688 - Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van
Orange on Protestantism
06/30/1690 - Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville
beat Neth/English fleet
06/30/1700 - Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow
is 12/7/1700)
06/30/1722 - Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel
VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
06/30/1734 - Russian army occupies Danzig
06/30/1741 - Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic
in alms
06/30/1755 - Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese
restaurants
06/30/1794 - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
06/30/1815 - US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by
Algerian pirates
06/30/1834 - Congress creates Indian Territory (now
Oklahoma)
06/30/1859 - Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls
on a tightrope
06/30/1861 - CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade
06/30/1862 - Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia
06/30/1862 - Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate
assault attack
06/30/1862 - Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp VA
(Frayser's Farm)
06/30/1862 - Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo"
06/30/1863 - Battles in Hanover Pennsylvania: 80 casualties
06/30/1863 - Dutch colony Suriname counts population of
33,000 slaves
06/30/1863 - Skirmish at Sporting Hill Pennsylvania
06/30/1865 - 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of
Lincoln are found guilty
06/30/1870 - Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college
graduate
06/30/1871 - Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms
06/30/1876 - Serbia declares war on Turkey
06/30/1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train
full stolen goods
06/30/1881 - Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to
Liberia
06/30/1893 - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats)
discovered
06/30/1894 - Korea declares independence from China, asks
for Japanese aid
06/30/1894 - London Tower Bridge opens
06/30/1896 - W S Hadaway patents electric stove
06/30/1899 - Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick Eng v Australia
at Headingley
06/30/1900 - 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326
die
06/30/1902 - Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive
HRs in same inning
06/30/1906 - John Hope becomes 1st black president of
Morehouse College
06/30/1906 - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act
adopted
06/30/1908 - Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY
Highlanders, 8-0
06/30/1908 - Giant fireball impacts in Siberia (Tunguska
Event) (Enckes comet?)
06/30/1909 - Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in
6 for hw boxing title
06/30/1910 - Russia absorbs Finland
06/30/1911 - Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of
War
06/30/1911 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
06/30/1913 - 2nd Balkan War begins
06/30/1913 - NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies
11-1
06/30/1914 - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for
Indian rights in S Africa
06/30/1916 - 22nd US Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at
Minikahda Club MINN
06/30/1916 - General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in
splendid spirits"
06/30/1923 - NZ claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
06/30/1924 - England score 2-503 in day's play v S Africa at
Lord's
06/30/1927 - Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto
Politico
06/30/1927 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota
closes
06/30/1928 - Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations
call signs that are to be changed to conform
with international standards
06/30/1929 - 33rd US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at
Winged Foot CC NY
06/30/1930 - 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady
NY
06/30/1930 - Bradman scores 254 at Lord's v England, 320
mins, 25 fours
06/30/1933 - 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against
fascism/war
06/30/1933 - Card's Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win
8-2
06/30/1933 - US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt
Lake City Utah closes
06/30/1934 - "Night of Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody
purge of Nazi party
06/30/1934 - French Equatorial Africa constituted a single
administrative unit
06/30/1934 - NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
06/30/1935 - Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to
become wrestling champ
06/30/1936 - "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell,
published
06/30/1936 - 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
06/30/1936 - Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for
sanctions against Italy
06/30/1936 - Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind"
published
06/30/1938 - Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat
Phils 14-1
06/30/1939 - Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time,
at Peenem?nde
06/30/1940 - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick,
1st appears
06/30/1940 - 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
06/30/1940 - US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
06/30/1941 - 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
06/30/1941 - Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
06/30/1942 - 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
06/30/1942 - Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
06/30/1942 - US bombs Celebes & Timor
06/30/1942 - US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
06/30/1943 - Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel
(island-hopping)
06/30/1944 - Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
06/30/1944 - French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands
06/30/1944 - Universal strike against nazi terror in
Copenhagen
06/30/1945 - 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
06/30/1948 - Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers,
2-0
06/30/1948 - Last British armies leave Israel
06/30/1948 - Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes
announced (Bell Labs)
06/30/1949 - Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta
06/30/1950 - US Gen MacArthur visits front in South
Korea/asks for US troops
06/30/1951 - "Victor Borge Show," last airs on NBC-TV
06/30/1951 - NAACP begins attack on school segregation &
discrimination
06/30/1952 - "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to
TV
06/30/1952 - Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government
06/30/1953 - 1st Corvette manufactured
06/30/1954 - Largest check: Internal US Treasury check at
$4,176,969,623.57
06/30/1954 - Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting
3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby
Brown's last game; he retired to become a
doctor
06/30/1955 - "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV
06/30/1956 - "Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater NYC
after 245 performances
06/30/1956 - "Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater
NYC after 21 performances
06/30/1956 - Lenins politics testament (1923) published in
Moscow
06/30/1956 - United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon
killing 128
06/30/1958 - "No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at
#24
06/30/1958 - Dutch Govt of Drees ends obligatory dismissal
of married teachers
06/30/1959 - During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in
play at same time
06/30/1960 - US stops sugar import from Cuba
06/30/1960 - Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares
independence from Belgium
06/30/1961 - Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago, to
become NWA champ
06/30/1961 - Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
06/30/1962 - 17th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by
Murle Lindstrom
06/30/1962 - French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
06/30/1962 - LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
06/30/1962 - Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation
Army fighters
06/30/1962 - Rwanda & Burundi become independent
06/30/1963 - Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd
head of RC Church
06/30/1963 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf
Open
06/30/1964 - Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth
orbit
06/30/1964 - Last UN troops leave Congo
06/30/1965 - NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
06/30/1966 - Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
06/30/1966 - Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
06/30/1966 - Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to
8th director of CIA
06/30/1966 - Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI
Trent Bridge, wicketless
06/30/1966 - Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as
7th director of CIA
06/30/1967 - Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black
astronaut
06/30/1967 - Mo‹se Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria
06/30/1967 - Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th
position since joining Phils
06/30/1968 - E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order
of October Revolution"
06/30/1968 - Gaullists win French parliamentary election,
358 of 458 chairs
06/30/1968 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf
Open
06/30/1969 - Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record
at 2:08:34
06/30/1969 - Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
06/30/1970 - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World
Cup at Mexico City
06/30/1970 - Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves
beat Reds 8-2
06/30/1971 - Biesheuvel govt forms
06/30/1971 - Dutch Biesheuvel government begins [or May 6]
06/30/1971 - Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower
voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment
06/30/1972 - 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983,
1985
06/30/1972 - Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go
on to win pennant
06/30/1973 - "Burns & Schreiber Comedy Hour," TV Variety;
debut on ABC
06/30/1973 - Biggest US tanker "Brooklyn" christened
(230,000 ton)
06/30/1973 - Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min
solar eclipse
06/30/1974 - 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson
Classic): Carole Jo Skala
06/30/1974 - Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover
burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub
killing 24 (Port Chester NY)
06/30/1974 - Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to
west
06/30/1975 - Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in
Colorado
06/30/1975 - Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono
marries Gregg Allman
06/30/1975 - Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in
Malaysia
06/30/1975 - U of Calif reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion
light years distance
06/30/1976 - John Walker of NZ sets record for 2000 m,
4:51.4
06/30/1977 - Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the
B-52"
06/30/1977 - Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing
rock group Kiss
06/30/1977 - US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to
Wash DC)
06/30/1977 - Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs
in Toronto
06/30/1978 - English prince Michael marries baroness
Marie-Christine von Reibnitz
06/30/1978 - Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500
HRs
06/30/1978 - Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox
06/30/1979 - "Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater
NYC after 8 performances
06/30/1979 - Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on
BBC's Juke Box Jury
06/30/1980 - West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits
Moscow
06/30/1981 - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao
Tse-tung's policy
06/30/1982 - "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander
NYC after 333 perfs
06/30/1982 - Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states
short of ratification
06/30/1982 - NJ NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan
balloting, runner-up names are Blades,
Meadowlanders & Americans
06/30/1982 - Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at
Palmdale
06/30/1984 - Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
06/30/1984 - Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use
since 1551)
06/30/1984 - Longest pro football game, LA Express beats
Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games
lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
06/30/1985 - "King & I" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after
191 performances
06/30/1985 - 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed
in Beirut
06/30/1985 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
06/30/1985 - LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15
HRs in June
06/30/1986 - Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court
(5-4)
06/30/1987 - Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan
Lucci loses for 8th time
06/30/1987 - Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record
in high jump
06/30/1988 - "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV
06/30/1988 - Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie
Gleason
06/30/1988 - Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White
Sox won't move to Fla
06/30/1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Muzyczyny,
Gdynia
06/30/1989 - Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph
Doherty deported to UK
06/30/1989 - Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex
with a 16 year old girl
06/30/1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago,
Chile & Guam
06/30/1989 - NY State Legislature passes Staten Island
secession bill
06/30/1989 - Sudan suspends interim constitution following
coup
06/30/1990 - East & West Germany merge their economies
06/30/1991 - 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon
06/30/1992 - 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25› (NYC)
06/30/1992 - Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul
Slye
06/30/1992 - Fidel Ramos installed as president of
Philippines
06/30/1992 - Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s)
06/30/1993 - "Les Miserables," opens at Point Theatre,
Dublin
06/30/1993 - Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to
Jacobs Field
06/30/1994 - Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
06/30/1994 - Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after
record 392 flawless games
06/30/1994 - Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ
Simpson
06/30/1994 - US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding
for life
06/30/1995 - Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000
hits
06/30/1996 - "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater
NYC after 77 perfs
06/30/1996 - "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck
Theater NYC after 308 perfs
06/30/1996 - "State Fair," closes at Music Box Theater NYC
after 118 performances
06/30/1996 - Caroline Frolic (Miss Ontario), crowned Miss
Renaissance USA
06/30/1996 - Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
06/30/1997 - Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
06/30/1998 - Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game
service, closes down

Famous birthdays on this day ...

06/30/1468 - Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon
06/30/1470 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded
Italy
06/30/1503 - Johan Frederik, elector of Saxon (1532-47)
06/30/1669 - Mauritius Vogt, composer
06/30/1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter
(Liebfrauenkirche)
06/30/1685 - John Gay, author (Baggars' Opera)
06/30/1722 - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
06/30/1723 - Christian Ernst Graf, composer
06/30/1743 - Niels Schiorring, composer
06/30/1748 - Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer
06/30/1768 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
06/30/1789 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter
06/30/1791 - F‚lix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of
Biot & Savart)
06/30/1807 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer
(Auch einer)
06/30/1810 - Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian
poet (illyrism)
06/30/1817 - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
06/30/1818 - Edward John Hopkins, composer
06/30/1819 - William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
06/30/1823 - Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist (2
Tudors)
06/30/1837 - Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be
Maj Gen
06/30/1846 - Ricardo Drigo, composer
06/30/1847 - Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch
Trading Comp)
06/30/1853 - Adolf Furtw„ngler, German archaeologist
(Antiken Gemmen)
06/30/1856 - Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
06/30/1858 - Andr‚ Antoine, French stage manager (Th‚ƒtre
Libre) [or 7/31]
06/30/1860 - Gyula Andr_ssy Jr, Hungarian minister of
Foreign affairs (1918-20)
06/30/1868 - C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game,
Adventure in Blackmail)
06/30/1879 - Walter Hampden, Bkln NY, actor (Five Fingers,
Hunchback of Notre Dame)
06/30/1882 - Sven R Lidman, Swedish writer (Tvedr„ktens
Barn)
06/30/1890 - Gertrude McCoy, Sugar Valley GA, silent screen
actress (Blue Bird)
06/30/1890 - Horace Chapman, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder
for S Afr in 2 Tests)
06/30/1892 - Laszlo Lajtha, composer
06/30/1892 - Pierre Blanchar, Philippeville Algeria, actor
(Magnificent Sinner)
06/30/1893 - Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour
leader (1945-..)
06/30/1893 - Walter Ulbricht, president German DR
06/30/1894 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke
Ferdinand)
06/30/1896 - Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor
(Voice of Firestone)
06/30/1898 - George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
06/30/1899 - Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal
06/30/1902 - Madge Bellamy, Hillsboro TX, actress (White
Zombie)
06/30/1904 - Glenda Farrell, Enid OK, actress (Golddiggers
of 1935)
06/30/1905 - Nestor Paiva, Fresno CA, actor (Comanche, Fear,
Tarantula, Killer Ape)
06/30/1908 - Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author
(Bestiari)
06/30/1908 - Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer
06/30/1908 - Monica Maurice, industrialist
06/30/1909 - Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic
(1962-63)
06/30/1911 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer (Bells
in Winter, Nobel 1980)
06/30/1911 - Virginia Smith, (Rep-R-NB, 1975- )
06/30/1912 - Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
06/30/1912 - J Tibor de Powerula, [de Abrah_mfalva],
Hungarian/Dutch cellist)
06/30/1912 - Kenneth Jameson, art educator
06/30/1912 - Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist
06/30/1912 - [J] Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist
06/30/1913 - Harry Wismer, Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY
Titans)
06/30/1914 - David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda
Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
06/30/1914 - Natko Devcic, composer
06/30/1915 - Charles Rowe, cricketer (scored a pair in only
Test (NZ v Aust 1946))
06/30/1917 - Buddy Rich, Bkln NY, drummer/orch leader (Buddy
Rich Band-Away We Go)
06/30/1917 - Lena Horne, Bkln NY, actress/singer (Stormy
Weather, Wiz)
06/30/1917 - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician
06/30/1918 - Stuart Foster, Binghamton NY, singer (Galen
Drake Show)
06/30/1918 - Susan Hayward, Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want
to Live, Tulsa)
06/30/1919 - Lee Krieger, MD, actor (Clambake, One Way
Wahini)
06/30/1920 - Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
06/30/1920 - Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier
(Olympic-gold-1952)
06/30/1921 - Gordon Reynolds, musician
06/30/1925 - Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place)
06/30/1925 - Jim Levitch, horse trainer
06/30/1925 - Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs
(Olympic-gold-1948)
06/30/1925 - Will Gay Bottje, composer
06/30/1927 - Harvey Vernon, Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter
Country)
06/30/1927 - James Goldman, author/playwright (Butch Cassidy
& Sundance Kid)
06/30/1927 - Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico, 1981- )
06/30/1928 - Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic
06/30/1929 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher
06/30/1930 - Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer
(Buckaroos)
06/30/1930 - June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
06/30/1930 - Mac Benson, horse trainer
06/30/1930 - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
06/30/1931 - James Loughran, British conductor
06/30/1931 - Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad)
06/30/1931 - June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch &
Go, Children Galore)
06/30/1932 - Martin Mailman, composer
06/30/1933 - Mike J K Smith, cricketer (England captain
mid-60s)
06/30/1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book
of Magic & Illusion)
06/30/1936 - Dave Van Ronk, rocker/actor (Caffe Lena)
06/30/1936 - Nancy Dussault, Pensacola Fla, actress
(Muriel-Too Close for Comfort)
06/30/1936 - Pauls Dambis, composer
06/30/1936 - Tony Musante, Bridgeport Ct, actor (David
Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide)
06/30/1938 - Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k
(Olympics-gold-64)
06/30/1938 - Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist (Vivat Vivaldi)
06/30/1938 - William Mervin Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10K runner
(Olympic-gold-64)
06/30/1939 - Lindembergue Cardoso, composer
06/30/1941 - John Jameson, cricketer (England batsman, 465
p/ship with Kanhai)
06/30/1941 - Larry Hall, rocker (Tape Heads)
06/30/1941 - Micki Grant, composer
06/30/1941 - Mike Leander Farr, record producer
06/30/1941 - Peter Pollock, cricketer (bro of Graeme/father
of Shaun, S Af quickie)
06/30/1942 - Robert Ballard,
explorer/geologist/author/discoverer (Titanic
in 1985)
06/30/1943 - Florence Ballard, Detroit Mich, rocker
(Supremes)
06/30/1944 - Glenn Shorrock, Sydney Australia, rock vocalist
(Little River Band)
06/30/1944 - Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder/sportscaster
(NY Yankees, NY Mets)
06/30/1946 - Billy Brown, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman,
Brown)
06/30/1947 - Jasper van 't Hof, Dutch jazz pianist (Live in
Montreux)
06/30/1947 - Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut
06/30/1949 - Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist (Sweet)
06/30/1949 - Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut
06/30/1949 - Eric Goetz, NYC, US shipbuilder (America's Cup
1995)
06/30/1949 - Thanh Liem Bui, Vietnam, cosmonaut
06/30/1950 - Donna Jean Willmott, Akron Ohio, FALN member
(FBI most wanted)
06/30/1950 - Pablo Castillo, jockey
06/30/1951 - Andr‚ Hazes, Dutch barkeeper/singer (We Love
Orange)
06/30/1951 - Andy Scott, rocker
06/30/1951 - Stanley Clarke, Phila, rock bassist (New
Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway)
06/30/1951 - Stephen S Oswald, Seattle Washington, astronaut
(STS 42, 56, 67)
06/30/1953 - Hal Lindes, Monterey CA, rocker (Dire Straits)
06/30/1954 - Bryn B Burrows, rock drummer (Fabulous Poodles)
06/30/1954 - Ken Olin, Chicago, actor (Thirtysomething, Det
Quinn-EZ Street)
06/30/1955 - Mark MacDonald, horse trainer
06/30/1956 - Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human
League-Only Human)
06/30/1956 - David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color,
Boomerang)
06/30/1956 - Ronald Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
06/30/1957 - Sarah McGuire, Springfield IL, LPGA golfer
(1983 United Va Bank-5th)
06/30/1958 - Esa-Pekka Salonen, Helsinki Finland, conductor
(Giro)
06/30/1959 - Gina Goldberg, playmate (May, 1981)
06/30/1959 - Michel Dion, Quebec City Canada, Rifle shooter
(Olympics-24-92, 96)
06/30/1959 - Stephanie Farwig, Milwaukee WI, golfer (1994
LPGA Corning Classic-2nd)
06/30/1960 - Randy Ladouceur, Brockville, NHL defenseman
(Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
06/30/1961 - Karolyn Kirby, US beach volleyball player
(Goodwill-gold-94)
06/30/1962 - Julianne Regan, rocker (All About Eve-All About
Scarlet)
06/30/1962 - Vladimir Mikolaevich Dezhurov, Mordovia,
astronaut (Mir 18, STS-71)
06/30/1963 - Rupert Graves, actor (Damage, Handful of Dust,
Maurice)
06/30/1965 - Mitch Richmond, Ft Lauderdale Fl, NBA guard
(Sac Kings, Oly-g-88, 96)
06/30/1965 - Steve Duchesne, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman
(Ottawa Senators)
06/30/1966 - "Iron" Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight
boxing champ (1986-90)
06/30/1966 - Louie Aguiar, NFL punter (KC Chiefs)
06/30/1967 - Rudi Steyn, cricketer (S African opening
batsman 1995)
06/30/1967 - Sheila Hudson, US triple jumper (US record
1992)
06/30/1967 - Tina Bockrath, Dayton Oh, playmate (May,
1990)/actress
06/30/1968 - Dan Peltier, Clifton Park NY, outfielder (SF
Giants)
06/30/1968 - Peter Miller, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
06/30/1969 - Jim Montgomery, Montreal, NHL center (Phila
Flyers)
06/30/1969 - Ken Gernander, Grand Rapids, NHL center (NY
Rangers)
06/30/1969 - Kristina Farrar Stookey, Martha Vineyard MA,
470 yachter (Oly-4th-96)
06/30/1969 - Sanath Jayasuriya, cricketer (Sri Lankan open
bat MVP-1996 World Cup)
06/30/1970 - Brian Bloom, actor (As the World Turns)
06/30/1970 - Mark Grudzielanek, Milwaukee Wisc, infielder
(Montreal Expos)
06/30/1971 - Ann Marsh, Royal Oak Mich, fencer-foil
(Olympics-96)
06/30/1971 - Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut
(Soyuz 11), dies at 38
06/30/1972 - Dan Comiskey, CFL guard (Saskatchewan
Roughriders)
06/30/1972 - Ellen Coleen Pasturzak, Portsmouth Ohio, Miss
America-Ohio (1996)
06/30/1972 - Garret Anderson, Los angeles CA, outfielder
(California Angels)
06/30/1972 - Tyrone Davis, NFL tight end (NY Jets, Green Bay
Packers-Superbowl 31)
06/30/1973 - Chan Ho Park, Kong Ju City Korea, pitcher (LA
Dodgers)
06/30/1973 - Dodda Ganesh, cricketer (Karnataka & India pace
bowler 1997)
06/30/1974 - Michelle Kang, Fredericksburg Virginia, Miss
America-Virginia (1997)
06/30/1975 - Natasha Sturgess, Australian mistral yachter
(Olympics-96)
06/30/1976 - Brian Rocheleleau, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak
(alt-olympics-96)
06/30/1977 - Lola Odusoga, Finland, Miss Universe-3rd place
(1996)
06/30/1981 - Allison Schroeder, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA
(1997)

Famous deaths on this day ...

06/30/1109 - Alfonso VI, (imperator totius Hispaniae), king
of Leon, dies
06/30/1520 - Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, killed
06/30/1538 - Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of
Zutphen, dies at 70
06/30/1649 - Simon Vouet, French painter
06/30/1655 - Jacob Boonen, South Netherlands
clergyman/lawyer, dies at 81
06/30/1662 - Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried
at about 64
06/30/1666 - Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32
06/30/1666 - Alexander Brome, British poet
06/30/1685 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician,
beheaded at about 55
06/30/1792 - Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies
06/30/1817 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
06/30/1819 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72
06/30/1839 - Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/archbishop (Dead
Angel), dies
06/30/1862 - Richard Griffith, US Confederate brig-general,
dies in battle at 48
06/30/1882 - Charles J Guiteau, assassin (Pres Garfield),
hanged
06/30/1889 - Eugenio Terziani, composer, dies at 64
06/30/1890 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer, dies at 71
06/30/1899 - Jon Helgason, Icelandic poet (Ur Landsudri),
dies
06/30/1904 - Thomas Emmett, cricketer (English Test bowler
of the sostenuter), dies
06/30/1905 - John Hay, US politician, dies
06/30/1914 - Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin
Hood/crowd leader, dies
06/30/1919 - John W S Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel
1904), dies at 76
06/30/1920 - Lena Christ, writer, dies at 38
06/30/1923 - Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer, dies at 56
06/30/1924 - Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet/writer
(Pypelyntjes), dies at 42
06/30/1934 - Ernst R”hm, German staff member, executed at 46
06/30/1934 - Gregor Strasser, German
pharmacist/NSDAP-leader, murdered at 42
06/30/1934 - Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered
06/30/1934 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor
(1932-33), murdered at 52
06/30/1935 - William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in
7 Tests 1893-99), dies
06/30/1938 - Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Nove Pesme), dies at
61
06/30/1942 - Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea,
executed at 62
06/30/1946 - Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64
06/30/1948 - Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78
06/30/1953 - Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author
(children's book), dies at 79
06/30/1953 - Gote Carlid, composer, dies at 32
06/30/1958 - Alo‹s Blommaert, Flemish literary (De
Heikeuters), dies at 45
06/30/1959 - Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76
06/30/1960 - Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79
06/30/1961 - Lee de Forest, inventor (Electron Tube), dies
at 87
06/30/1962 - Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist,
dies at 65
06/30/1965 - Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show
Folks), dies
06/30/1968 - John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight),
dies at 73
06/30/1969 - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer, dies at 76
06/30/1971 - Georgi T Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz
11), dies at 43
06/30/1971 - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz
7, 11), dies at 35
06/30/1973 - Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary
4-horsemen, died
06/30/1974 - Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr,
assassinated in church
06/30/1979 - Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies at 72
06/30/1980 - Virginia Brown Faire, actress (Lonesome Trail,
Temptress), dies
06/30/1983 - Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies
06/30/1983 - Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne,
(Jack Benny), dies at 77
06/30/1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes),
dies at 79
06/30/1985 - James Dewar, inventor (Twinkie), dies
06/30/1987 - Federico Mompou, composer, dies at 94
06/30/1987 - King Donovan, actor/director (Enforcer, Perfect
Furlough), dies
06/30/1992 - Doug Delauder, entertainer, dies
06/30/1992 - Jim Alaimo, vocalist, dies after heart surgery
at 53
06/30/1992 - Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social),
dies
06/30/1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our
Gang), dies at age 65
06/30/1994 - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
06/30/1995 - Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at
63
06/30/1995 - Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's
Lucy), dies at 89
06/30/1995 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut
(Soyuz 3), dies at 74
06/30/1995 - Phyllis Hyman, R&B/Jazz singer (Prime of My
Life), suicides at 45
06/30/1995 - Sicco Mansholt, pres Commission of Europe
(1972-1973), dies
06/30/1996 - Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet,
dies at 76
06/30/1996 - Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick),
commits suicide at 41
06/30/1996 - Michael Parkin, journalist, dies at 74
06/30/1996 - Norman Aldridge, biochemical toxicologist, dies
at 76


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[Wasa]

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[Mikael XII]

Hasnt worked for me atleast.

[Wasa]

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[Classique]

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