1520 | Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtilan during the night. | |||||
1857 | Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin's Hall in London–his first public reading. | |||||
1859 | Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, becomes the first man to walk across Niagra Falls on a tightrope. | |||||
1908 | A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons. | |||||
1934 | Adolf Hitler orders the purge of his own party in the "Night of the Long Knives." | |||||
1936 | Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone With the Wind, is published. | |||||
1948 | John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time. | |||||
1960 | Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho, opens. | |||||
1971 | Three Soviet cosmonauts die when their spacecreaft depressurizes during reentry. | |||||
Born on June 30 | ||||||
1685 | John Gay, poet and playwright (The Beggar's Opera). | |||||
1768 | Elizabeth Kortright, later Elizabeth Monroe, first lady to U.S. President James Monroe. | |||||
1911 | Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and critic. | |||||
1917 | Lena Horne, American singer. | |||||
1919 | Susan Hayward, actress. | |||||
1926 | Paul Berg, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. | |||||
1932 | Mongo Beti, novelist and political writer. |
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