June 30
Birthdays:
1966 ~ Mike Tyson (né Michael Gerard Tyson), African-American professional boxer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
1963 ~ Rupert Graves (né Rupert Simon Graves), British actor. He portrayed Gary in the third season of Last Tango in Halifax.
1959 ~ Vincent D’Onofrio (né Vincent Philip D’Onofrio), American actor best known for his role as Detective Robert Goren on CSI: Criminal Intent. He was born in New York, New York.
1956 ~ David Alan Grier, African-American actor and comedian. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1952 ~ Athanassios Fokas (né Athanassios Spyridon Fokas), Greek mathematician. He was born in Cefalonia, Greece.
1950 ~ Leonard Whiting, English actor best known for his role as Romeo in the 1968 movie, Romeo and Juliette. He was born in London, England.
1947 ~ Barry Bremen (d. June 30, 2011), American known as The Great Imposter who made it into the big leagues. He was a businessman who bluffed his way into being an umpire at major league baseball games. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died in Phoenix, Arizona of esophageal cancer on his 64th birthday.
1943 ~ Florence Ballard (née Florence Glenda Ballard; d. Feb. 22, 1976), African-American singer and member of The Supremes. She was born and died in Detroit, Michigan. She died of a heart attack at age 32.
1930 ~ Thomas Sowell, African-American economist and social theorist. He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina.
1928 ~ Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli (d. Sept. 25, 2021), Islamic philosopher, religious leader and mathematician. He died at age 92.
1927 ~ Shirley Fry Irvin (née Shirley June Fry; d. July 13, 2021), American professional tennis ace who ruled the game in the 1950s. She was born in Akron, Ohio. She died 2 weeks after her 94th birthday in Naples, Florida.
1926 ~ Paul Berg (d. Feb. 15, 2023), American Nobel biochemist who tinkered with DNA. In 1980, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in nucleic acids, especially recombinant DNA. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died in Stanford, California at age 96.
1917 ~ Susan Hayward (née Edythe Marrenner; d. Mar. 14, 1975), American actress. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She died at age 57 of brain cancer in Beverly Hills, California.
1917 ~ Lena Horne (née Lena Mary Calhoun Horne; d. May 9, 2010), African-American singer and actress. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died of heart failure at age 92.
1911 ~ Czesław Miłosz (d. Aug. 14, 2004), Polish author and recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. He became an American citizen in 1970. He died at age 93 in Kraków, Poland.
1891 ~ Sir Stanley Spencer (d. Dec. 14, 1959), British painter. He died of cancer at age 68.
1819 ~ William A. Wheeler (né William Almon Wheeler; d. June 4, 1887), 19th Vice President of the United States. He served under President Rutherford B. Hayes from March 1877 until March 1881. He was a graduate of the University of Vermont. He was born and died in Malone, New York. He died 26 days before his 68th birthday.
1817 ~ Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (d. Dec. 10, 1911), English botanist. He died at age 94.
1801 ~ Frédéric Bastiat (né Claude-Frédéric Bastiat; d. Dec. 24, 1850), French economist and diplomat. He was born in Bayonne, France. He died at age 49 in Rome, Italy.
1769 ~ Pierre Derbigny (né Pierre Augustin Charles Bourguignon Derbigny; d. Oct. 6, 1829), 6th Governor of Louisiana. He served as Governor for only 10 months, the shortest term of any elected governor of Louisiana. He was born in Laon, France. He was killed after being thrown from a horse-drawn carriage while visiting in Gretna, Louisiana. He is buried in the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. He was 60 years old at the time of his death. He also has the distinction of having been only one of four governors to have died while in office, three of whom also died during the month of October.
1768 ~ Elizabeth Monroe (née Elizabeth Jane Kortright; d. Sept 23, 1830), First Lady and wife of President James Monroe. Due to health issues, however, many of the hosting duties fell to her daughter, Eliza Monroe Hay. She was born in New York, New York. She died at age 62 in Richmond, Virginia.
1478 ~ John, Prince of Asturias (d. Oct. 4, 1497), member of the Spanish Royal family. In 1497 he married Margaret of Austria (1480 ~ 1530). He died within a few months of their marriage. He was of the House of Trastámara. He was the only son and heir of Ferdinand I, King of Aragon and Isabela of Castile. He died at age 19, possibly of tuberculosis.
1470 ~ Charles VIII, King of France (d. Apr. 7, 1498). He became king at age 13. He was ruled from August 1483 until his death in April 1498. He was married to Anne, Duchess of Britany (1477 ~ 1514). They married in 1491. He was her second husband. He was of the House of Valois. He was the son of Louis XI, King of France and Charlotte of Savoy. He died at age 27 when he struck his head on the lintel of a door. He is believed to have suffered from a subdural hematoma.
Events that Changed the World:
2022 ~ Ketanji Brown Jackson (b. 1970) officially began her tenure as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. She was the first African-American woman to old this office.
2021 ~ The Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer were indicted by a grand jury for tax crimes.
2021 ~ The Tiger Fire began near Black Canyon City, Arizona. The fire would burn over 16,000 acres before it was fully contained a month later.
2021 ~ Bill Cosby (b. 1937), was released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction. He had spent two years of his prison term after having been found guilty of sexually assaulting numerous women.
2019 ~ Donald Trump (b. 1946) became the first American sitting President to visit North Korea.
2014 ~ In the case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the United States Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision ruled that closely held companies, such as Hobby Lobby, could refuse to include IUDs and morning-after pills in their employee health insurance on religious grounds. The decision was drafted by Samuel Alito (b. 1950), and was joined by John Roberts (b. 1955), Antonin Scalia (1936 ~ 2016), Anthony Kennedy (b. 1936) and Clarence Thomas (b. 1948). Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933 ~ 2020) wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Sonia Sotomayor (b. 1954), Stephen Breyer (b. 1938) and Elena Kagan (b. 1960).
2013 ~ While controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona, 19 firefighters were killed.
1997 ~ The United Kingdom transferred sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
1992 ~ British former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925 ~ 2013) joined the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher. She had been named a peer of the realm earlier this month.
1990 ~ East and West Germany merged their economies.
1986 ~ The United States Supreme Court ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick decriminalizing homosexual acts between consenting adults. Associate Justice Byron White (1917 ~ 2002) drafted the majority opinion.
1974 ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov (b. 1948) defected from the Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet in Canada, where he received political asylum.
1971 ~ Ohio ratified the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18. With Ohio’s ratification, the Amendment became the law of the land.
1966 ~ The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded. Betty Friedan (1921 ~ 2006) and Shirley Chisholm (1924 ~ 2005) were two of its founding members.
1960 ~ The Belgian Congo gained its independence from Belgium.
1953 ~ The first Corvettes were produced.
1940 ~ The United States Fish and Wildlife Services was created.
1937 ~ The first emergency telephone number (999) was introduced in London, England.
1936 ~ Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, was published.
1934 ~ In what is now known as the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler’s men became involved in a violent purging of his political rivals.
1921 ~ Former President William Taft (1857 ~ 1930) was appointed as Chief Justice of the United States by President Warren Harding (1865 ~ 1923). He would be confirmed by Congress and officially be sworn in less than 2 weeks later.
1906 ~ The United States Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, which is now known as the Food and Drugs Act.
1905 ~ Albert Einstein’s article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, was published. This introduced his theory of special relativity to the world.
1864 ~ President Abraham Lincoln (1809 ~ 1865) granted Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation.”
1859 ~ French acrobat and tightrope walker Charles Blondin (né Jean François Gravelet; 1824 ~ 1897) crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
296 ~ Pope Marcellinus (d. 304), began his 8 year reign.
Good-Byes:
2019 ~ Mitchell Feigenbaum (né Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum; b. Dec. 19, 1944), American mathematical physicist. His focus of study was on chaos theory. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died in New York City at age 74.
2014 ~ Paul Mazursky (né Irwin Lawrence Mazursky; b. Apr. 25, 1930), American film director. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of cardiac arrest at age 84 in Los Angeles, California.
2012 ~ Yitzhak Shamir (né Yitzhak Yezernitsky; b. Oct. 22, 1915), Prime Minister of Israel. He served as Prime Minister for two terms. His first term ran from October 1983 until September 1984. His second term ran from October 1986 until July 1992. He was born in Russia. He died at age 96 in Tel Aviv.
2011 ~ Barry Bremen (b. June 30, 1947), American known as The Great Imposter who made it into the big leagues. He was a businessman who bluffed his way into being an umpire at major league baseball games. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He died in Phoenix, Arizona of esophageal cancer on his 64th birthday.
2009 ~ Joan Wiffen (née Joan Pederson; b. Feb. 4, 1922), New Zealand amateur paleontologist. She discovered the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand. She died at age 87 in Hastings, New Zealand.
2004 ~ Professor Dame Rosalinde Hurley (aka Mrs. Gortval, b. Dec. 30, 1929), British physician, microbiologist public health administrator and barrister. She died at age 74.
2003 ~ Robert McCloskey (né John Robert McCloskey; b. Sept. 14, 1915), American children’s author and illustrator. He is best known for his book, Make Way for Ducklings. He was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He died at age 88 in Deer Isle, Maine.
1984 ~ Lillian Hellman (née Lillian Florence Hellman, b. June 20, 1905), American playwright. She is best known for The Children’s Hour and Little Foxes. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She died in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts 10 days after her 79th birthday.
1973 ~ Nancy Mitford (b. Nov. 28, 1904), British novelist. She was born in London, England. She died at age 68 in Versailles, France.
1961 ~ Lee de Forest (d. Aug. 26, 1873), American inventor, best known for the invention Audion, a form of vacuum tube that amplifies weak electrical signals. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He died at age 87 in Hollywood, California.
1919 ~ John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (né John William Strutt; b. Nov. 12, 1842), English physicist and recipient of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of argon. He died at age 76.
1816 ~ Paul Hamilton (b. Oct. 16, 1762), 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy. He was appointed to the position by President James Madison. He served in that Office from May 1809 until January 1813. He had previously served as the Governor of South Carolina from December 1804 until 1806. He died at age 53 in Beaufort, South Carolina.
1785 ~ James Oglethorpe (b. Dec. 22, 1696), English general and founder of the colony of Georgia in what would later become the United States. He died at age 88.
1670 ~ Princess Henrietta Anne of England (b. June 26, 1644), member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1640 ~ 1701). She became the Duchess of Orléans upon their marriage in 1661. He was her cousin. She was of the House of Stuart. She was the youngest daughter of Charles I, King of England and Henrietta Marie of France. She was initially of the Church of England but converted to Roman Catholicism. She died unexpectedly of an opiate overdose 2 weeks after her 26th birthday.
1660 ~ William Oughtred (b. Mar. 5, 1575), English mathematician and Anglican priest. He is credited with inventing the slide rule. He died at age 86.
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