Top Historical Events That Happened on June 30

1940  US Fish and Wildlife Service established.   

1940  "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears   

1941  HMAS WATERHEN (RAN), lost in the Eastern Mediterranean off Bardia, east Libya by German divebombers on the 29th June.   

1941  HMAS Waterhen sunk on Tobruk run.   

1941  61 U-boats (310000 ton) sunk this month   

1942  Australian troops raid Salamaua.   

1942  US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation.   

1942  144 U boats (700000 ton) sunk this month.   

1942  Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62   

1946  Michael Zadora, composer, dies at 64   

1948  Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0.   

1948  Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs).   

1948  Karl Wolfskehl, writer, dies at 78.   

1950  Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea   

1950  US President allows American troops deployement in Korea.   

1951  NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination   

1952  "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV   

1953  Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79   

1954  USSR opens its inaugural atomic power plant.   

1956  United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128.   

1959  Lazare Saminsky, composer, dies at 76.   

1960  Belgian Congo is recorded as becoming an independent state   

1960  Za‹re (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium   

1960  Clarence Cameron White, composer, dies at 79   

1961  Lee de Forest, inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87   

1962  LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0   

1962  Rwanda and Burundi become independent.   

1962  Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65.   

1963  Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church.   

1964  Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit   

1965  Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies.   

1966  Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour.   

1967  Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named inaugural black astronaut.   

1968  Gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections   

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1286  John de warenne: 8th earl of surrey, english politician   

1468  Johan: The standvastige, monarch of saxon   

1470  Charles viii: King of france (1483-98), invaded italy   

1503  Johan frederik: Elector of saxon (1532-47)   

1503  John frederick: Elector of saxony   

1641  Meinhardt schomberg: 3rd duke of schomberg, irish general   

1669  Mauritius vogt: Composer   

1685  Dominikus zimmermann: German architect/painter (liebfrauenkirche)   

0350  Death of Nepotianus: Roman usurper   

1109  Death of Alfonso vi: (imperator totius hispaniae), king of leon,   

1181  Hugh de kevelioc: 3rd earl of chester, english politician (b. 1147)   

1224  Death of Adolf of osnabrück: Saint adolf (b. 1185)   

1364  Arnost of pardubice: Archbishop of prague (b. 1297)   

1520  Montezuma ii: The last aztec emperor, killed   

1538  Death of Charles van egmond: Duke of gelre/earl of zutphen,   

1579  Mehmed pasha sokolović: Turkish janissary