Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
June 30
| 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. | |
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Born on June 30 |
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| 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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