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June 30

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118

Tunguska event

118 years ago

Born this day

1911

Czesław Miłosz

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556th

Charles VIII of France

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Famous births27

1470 · 556 yrs

Charles VIII of France

Charles VIII (30 June 1470 – 7 April 1498), called the Affable (French: l'Affable), was King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498. He succeeded his father Louis XI at the age of 13.

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RoyaltyDied aged 27

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1685 · 341 yrs

John Gay

John Gay (30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera.

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LiteratureDied aged 47

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1801 · 225 yrs

Frédéric Bastiat

Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (French:; 30 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was a French economist, writer, and prominent member of the French liberal school. A member of the French National Assembly, Bastiat developed the economic concept of opportunity cost and introduced the parable of the broken window.

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ScienceDied aged 49

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1817 · 209 yrs

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was an English botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend.

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LiteratureDied aged 94

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1819 · 207 yrs

William A. Wheeler

William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 19th vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 under President Rutherford B. Hayes.

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PoliticsDied aged 67

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1884 · 142 yrs

Franz Halder

Franz Halder (30 June 1884 – 2 April 1972) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. During World War II, he directed the planning and implementation of Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.

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1884 · 142 yrs

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel (French:; 30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966) was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army.

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LiteratureWould be 142

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1893 · 133 yrs

Walter Ulbricht

Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (German:; 30 June 1893 – 1 August 1973) was a German communist politician. Ulbricht played a leading role in the creation of the Weimar-era Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic.

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PoliticsWould be 133

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1894 · 132 yrs

Isaak Babel

Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry".

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LiteratureWould be 132

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1911 · 115 yrs

Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz ( MEE-losh, US also -⁠lawsh, -⁠wosh, -⁠wawsh, Polish:; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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LiteratureWould be 115

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1917 · 109 yrs

Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrener; June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress best known for her film portrayals of women that were based on true stories.

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FilmWould be 109

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1917 · 109 yrs

Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theater.

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MusicWould be 109

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Famous deaths9

1855 · 171 yrs

Pavel Nakhimov

Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov (Russian: Павел Степанович Нахимов, pronounced; 5 July 1802 – 12 July 1855) was a Russian admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy known for his victory in the Battle of Sinop and his leadership in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean War.

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MilitaryDied aged 53

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1919 · 107 yrs

John William Strutt

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ( RAY-lee; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919), was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon.

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ScienceDied aged 76

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1934 · 92 yrs

Kurt von Schleicher

Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher (German:; 7 April 1882 – 30 June 1934) was a German military officer and the penultimate chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

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PoliticsWould be 144

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1961 · 65 yrs

Lee de Forest

Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance. He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the three-element "Audion" triode vacuum tube in 1908.

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TechnologyDied aged 87

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1966 · 60 yrs

Giuseppe Farina

Emilio Giuseppe "Nino" Farina (Italian pronunciation:; 30 October 1906 – 30 June 1966) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Farina won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in its inaugural 1950 season with Alfa Romeo, and won five Grands Prix across seven seasons.

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Notable PeopleWould be 119

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2009 · 17 yrs

Pina Bausch

Philippine "Pina" Bausch (27 July 1940 – 30 June 2009) was a German dancer and choreographer who was a significant contributor to a neo-expressionist dance tradition now known as Tanztheater.

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FilmWould be 86

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2012 · 14 yrs

Isaac Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir (Hebrew: יצחק שמיר,; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; 22 October 1915 – 30 June 2012) was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms (1983–1984, 1986–1992).

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PoliticsWould be 111

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2017 · 9 yrs

Simone Veil

Simone Veil (French:; née Simone Annie Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation.

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PoliticsWould be 99

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2022 · 4 yrs

Technoblade

Alexander (June 1, 1999 – June 2022), known online as Technoblade ( TEK-noh-blayd), was an American YouTuber known for his Minecraft videos, livestreams, and involvement in the Dream SMP. Technoblade registered his main channel on YouTube in 2013.

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Events5

1908 · 118 yrs

Tunguska event

The Tunguska event was the explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons TNT equivalent in the Russian Empire's Yeniseysk Governorate, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in modern Krasnoyarsk Krai, on the morning of 30 June 1908.

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Disaster

1934 · 92 yrs

Night of the Long Knives

The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer ), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (Aktion Kolibri), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934.

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History

1972 · 54 yrs

Leap second

A leap second (sometimes called intercalary second) is a one-second adjustment occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured precisely by atomic clocks, and observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and…

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History

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage

The knockout stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup was the second and final stage of the competition, following the group stage. It began on 30 June with the round of 16 and ended on 15 July with the final match, held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.

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Sports

2024 · 2 yrs

2024 French legislative election

Legislative elections were held in France on 30 June and 7 July 2024 (and one day earlier for some voters outside of metropolitan France) to elect all 577 members of the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.

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