June 30

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[edit] Events

• 1805 - The U.S. Congress organizes Michigan Territory.
• 1882 - Charles Guiteau hanged in Washington, DC for the shooting death of President James Garfield.
• 1908 - The Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia.
• 1921 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft chief justice of the United States.
• 1934 - The Night of the Long Knives, purge of political rivals in Germany.
• 1941 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
• 1960 - Congo gains independence from Belgium.
• 1971 - The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.
• 1990 - East and West Germany merge their economies.
• 1997 - The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
• 2007 - A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.

[edit] Births

• 1470 - Charles VIII of France (d. 1498)
• 1892 - Oswald Pohl, German military leader (d. 1951)
• 1893 - Walter Ulbricht, German communist politician (d. 1973)
• 1931 - Bert Eriksson, Flemish nationalist (d. 2005)
• 1992 - Prussian Blue singing duo, Lynx Gaede and Lamb Gaede

[edit] Deaths

• 1785 - James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (b. 1696)
• 1882 - Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of President James A. Garfield (b. 1841)
• 1934
  • Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1882)
  • Gregor Strasser, former NSDAP politician (b. 1892)
• 1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)