June 30 is Meteor Day
Don’t Sing in the Shower Day – Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Psycho” premiered on June 30, 1960.
Go for a Stroll Downtown Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
National Mai Tai Day
An Act on 1 Oct 1890 reserved additional areas of forest land in California, and created Yosemite National Park under the control of the Secretary of the Interior.
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau was hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
1905 – Albert Einstein published the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
A meteor explosion in Siberia on June 30, 1908 knocked down trees in a 40-mile radius and struck people unconscious some 40 miles away.
1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
When asked about his time on the Supreme Court and as President, Chief Justice Taft allegedly remarked, “I don’t remember that I ever was President.”
1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, took place.
Margaret Mitchell’s book, “Gone with the Wind,” was published in 1936.
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. It sold for $3,250.
1962 – Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax pitched his first no-hitter in a game with the New York Mets.
1970 – The Cincinnati Reds moved to their new home at Riverfront Stadium. It was the first stadium to have its entire surface covered by AstroTurf.
1971 – Ohio ratified the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.
Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto, Canada in 1974.
1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. Seventeen years after Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court directly overruled its decision in Lawrence v. Texas, and held that anti-sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
1994 – The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the 1994 national championship and banned her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.