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1470 Charles VIII king of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
1685 John Gay author (Baggars' Opera)
1768 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe 1st lady
1811 Vissarion Belinsky Sveaborg, Finland, Russian critic, journalist
1819 William A Wheeler (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
1837 Stephen D Ramseur youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1896 Wilfred Pelletier Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1898 George Chandler Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
19-- Chris Risola Ct, rocker (Steelheart-She's Gone)
19-- Harvey Vernon Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter Country)
19-- Phil Anselmo rocker (Pantera-Cowboys From Hell)
19-- Terry Funk Hammond Ind, pro wrestler/actor (Paradise Alley)
19-- Yngwie Maimsteen rocker (Eclipse, Oddysey)
1909 Juan Bosch poet/pres of the Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1911 Czeslaw Milosz Polish/American writer (Nobel 1980)
1912 Dan Reeves NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
1913 Harry Wismer Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY Titans)
1916 David Wayne actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1917 Buddy Rich Bkln NY, drummer/orch leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go)
1917 Lena Horne Bkln NY, singer (Stormy Weather)
1918 Stuart Foster Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show)
1918 Susan Hayward Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
1920 Zeno Colo Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 Micheline Lannoy Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948)
1930 June Valli Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1934 Harry Blackstone Jr magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)
1936 Nancy Dussault Pensacola Fla, actress (Muriel-Too Close for Comfort)
1936 Tony Musante Bridgeport Ct, actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide)
1938 Billy Mills US, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Florence Ballard singer (Supremes)
1944 Glenn Shorrock vocalist (Little River Band-Help Is On Its, Way)
1944 Ron Swoboda baseball outfielder (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1950 Donna Jean Willmott Akron Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
1951 Stanley Clarke bass (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway)
1951 Stephen S Oswald Seattle Washington, astronaut (STS 42)
1958 Esa-Pekka Salonen Helsinki Finland, conductor (Giro)
1962 Julianne Regan rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet)
1966 "Iron" Mike Tyson heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
1967 Tina Bockrath Dayton Oh, playmate (May, 1990)
1970 Brian Bloom actor (As the World Turns)


Deaths which occurred on June 30:

1961 Dr Lee De Forest radio pioneer, dies at 87
1971 3 cosmonauts die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry
1973 Elmer Layden one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, died
1974 Mother of Martin Luther King shot at organ
1974 Mrs Albert King mother of Martin Luther King, murdered in church
1974 Mrs Martin Luther King Sr shot in church, by a black man
1983 Bo Gentry songwriter/producer dies
1983 Mary Livingstone actress (Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
1984 Lillian Hellman playwright, dies of cardiac arrest at 79

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1967    ALLEN            MERLIN R.         BAYFIELD              WI       
1967 COLE LEGRANDE O. JR DANBURY CT POSS DEAD IR 6918 5067 75-REMAINS RETURNED 05/89
1967 HOUSE JOHN A. II PELHAM NY
1967 HOWARD LUTHER H. HAMLET NC
1967 JUDD MICHAEL B. CLEVELAND OH
1967 KILLEN JOHN D. III DES MOINES IA
1967 MC GRATH JOHN MICHAEL DENVER CO 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 RUNNELS GLYN L. JR. BIRMINGHAM AL
1970 BELL MARVIN E. BLYTHEVILLE AR REMAINS RETURNED 03/95
1970 BURGESS JOHN L. KINGSLEY MI
1970 DEAN MICHAEL F. LA PUNTE CA REMAINS RETURNED " MARCH 7, 1995"
1970 GOEGLEIN JOHN W. KIRKWOOD MO REMAINS RETURNED 03/95
1970 HILL GORDON CLARK SEATTLE WA
1970 JENKINS PAUL L. MC GEHEE AR REMAINS RETURNED 03/95
1970 SADLER MITCHELL OLEN JR. OCEANSIDE CA
1970 SANDERS WILLIAMS S. WINTHROP ME
1970 SCHANEBERG LEROY C. ASHTON IL "REMAINS RETURNED 03/95 COMINGLED WITH ""5"""
1971 BRIDGES PHILIP W. TIPTON CA

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On this day...

296 St Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1607 Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published
1741 Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1794 Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1859 Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope
1862 Day 6 of the 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate
1871 Guatemala revolts for agarian reforms
1881 Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia
1893 Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die
1902 S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora
1906 John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College
1906 Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
1908 Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Highlanders, 8-0
1908 Giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (Tunguska Event)
1911 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri closes
1913 2nd Balkan War begins
1913 NY Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-1
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa
1916 Chick Evans Jr wins golf's US Open
1923 New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica
1927 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico
1927 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1928 Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are
           to be changed to conform with international standards
1929 Bobby Jones wins golf's US Open
1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1933 Card's Dizzy Dean strikesout 17 Cubs to win 8-2
1933 US Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise Id & Salt Lake City Utah closes
1934 "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party
1934 French Equitorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
1934 NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1935 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella
1936 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published
1936 40 hour work week law approved (federal)
1938 Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1939 Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemnde
1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 US Fish & Wildlife Service established
1942 US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1948 Cleve Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0
1948 Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)
1950 Pres Truman orders US troops into Korea
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
1952 "The Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1954 Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning
           This was also Bobby Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor
1956 United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1960 Zare (then Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0
1962 Murie Lindstrom wins US Women's Golf Open
1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent
1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
1964 Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit
1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
1967 Maj Robert H Lawrence Jr named 1st black astronaut
1967 Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th positions since joining Phils
1969 Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34
1969 Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco
1970 1st baseball game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium
1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
1970 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze
1971 Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve of lower the voting age to
           18, thus ratifying the 26th admendment
1972 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985
1972 Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant
1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-min solar eclipse
1974 Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that
           torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY)
1975 Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado
1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
1976 John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4
1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"
1977 Marvel Comics publish the "Kiss book" tributing the rock group Kiss
1977 US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Wash DC)
1977 Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive HRs in Toronto
1978 Larry Doby becomes manager of the Chicago White Sox
1978 Willie McCovey becomes the 12th to hit 500 HRs
1979 Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury
1981 China's Communist Party condemns the late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1982 Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale
           NJ NHL franchise officially named the Devils by fan balloting,
           runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders & Americans
1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in
           USFL playoffs, games lats 93 minutes 33 seconds
1985 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
1985 LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4)
1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK
1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill





Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Guatemala : Revolution Day (1871)
Lybia : Troop Withdrawl Day
Mongolia : Constitution Day
Rwanda & Burundi : Independence Day (1962)
Surinam : Lebaran, official holiday
Zare : Independence Day (1960)
Iowa : Independence Sunday (1776) - - - - - ( Sunday )

Religious Observances

RC : Commemoration of St Paul
RC : Memorial of the 1st Martyrs of the See of Rome (opt)

Religious History

1629 The settlers of Salem, Mass. appointed Samuel Skelton as their pastor, by ballot. Their church covenant, afterward composed by Skelton, established Salem as the first non-separating congregational Puritan Church in New England.
1780 Benjamin Randall organized a fellowship of churches known as Free Will Baptists in New Hampshire. It became one of the early branches of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, which was formed in 1935.
1909 In Rome, the Catholic Pontifical Biblical Commission issued a decree interpreting the first 11 chapters of Genesis as history, not myth.
1973 In Korea, the Far Eastern Broadcasting Co. began transmitting the Gospel from HLAZ, its first radio station in this country. FBEC is active today through radio missions outreach, and focuses its work among the islands of Eastern Asia and the Pacific.
1974 Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr., and a church deacon were slain by a crazed gunman in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her son, the assassinated civil rights leader, once preached.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" The light of a hundred stars doesn't equal the light of the moon. "

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