Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on June 30 throughout history.
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is its capital and most populous city with a population of 1.24 million people…
A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău Inte
The Tiger Fire was a wildfire that burned 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) in the U.S. state of Arizona from June to July 2021. The fire was caused by a dry lightning strike in the Prescot…
The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being
The Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a national law of China on Hong Kong national securit…
The Hong Kong National Security Law is passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and immediatel
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the …
Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed. Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and l…
A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting
The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013. On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshot…
Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona
Protests occurred in Egypt on 30 June 2013, marking the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi's presidency. The events ended with the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état after mass protests…
Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their o
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled flight on an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sanaa in Yemen…
Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on boa
The Jeep Cherokee is a line of sport utility vehicles (SUV) manufactured and marketed by Jeep over six generations. Marketed initially as a variant of the Jeep Wagoneer (SJ), the …
A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terroris
The Airbus A330 is a wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus. Airbus began developing larger A300 derivatives in the mid–1970s, giving rise to the A330 twinjet as wel…
An Airbus A330-300 crashes during a test flight at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, killing all seven people on board
Since June 30, 1993, Malta has been subdivided into 68 localities, governed by local councils, Maltese: kunsilli lokali, meaning municipalities or boroughs, and considered by the …
Malta is officially subdivided into 68 local councils by the Local Councils Act
German reunification, also known as the expansion of the Federal Republic of Germany (BRD), was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on …
East and West Germany merge their economies
A bloodless coup d'état in Sudan overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani on 30 June 1989, ending Sudan's t…
A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahme
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal co…
The U
TWA Flight 847 was a regularly scheduled Trans World Airlines flight from Cairo to San Diego with en route stops in Athens, Rome, Boston, and Los Angeles. On the morning of June 1…
Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty s…
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands
The 1974 Baltimore municipal strike was a strike action undertaken by different groups of municipal workers in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It was initiated by waste collec…
The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins
On 30 June 1973, the supersonic jet Concorde 001 intercepted the path of a total solar eclipse and followed the path of totality as it crossed Africa. This feat allowed the passen…
Concorde 001 intercepts the path of a total solar eclipse and follows the moon's shadow, experiencing the longest total
A leap second is a one-second adjustment occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between International Atomic Time (TAI), as measur…
The first leap second is added to the UTC time system
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. I…
The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve