At present is Monday, June 30, the 181st day of 2025. There are 184 days left within the yr.
At present in historical past:
On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and navy rivals in Germany in what got here to be often called the “Night time of the Lengthy Knives.”
Additionally on this date:
In 1918, labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged beneath the Espionage Act of 1917 for a speech he had made two weeks earlier wherein he denounced U.S. involvement in World Conflict I. (Debs was sentenced to jail and disenfranchised for all times.)
In 1921, President Warren G. Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the US, succeeding the late Edward Douglass White.
In 1936, Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone With the Wind” was launched.
In 1958, the U.S. Senate handed the Alaska statehood invoice.
In 1971, the Supreme Courtroom dominated, 6-3, that the federal government couldn’t forestall The New York Occasions or The Washington Publish from publishing the Pentagon Papers.
In 1971, A Soviet area mission led to tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 had been discovered lifeless of asphyxiation inside their capsule after it had returned to Earth.
In 1985, 39 American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner had been freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
In 1994, the U.S. Determine Skating Affiliation stripped Tonya Harding of the nationwide championship and banned her for all times for her function within the assault on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
In 2009, American soldier Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl went lacking from his base in jap Afghanistan, and was later confirmed to have been captured by insurgents after strolling away from his publish. (Bergdahl was launched on Might 31, 2014, in change for 5 Taliban detainees; he pleaded responsible to desertion and misbehavior earlier than the enemy, however was spared a jail sentence by a navy choose.)
In 2012, Islamist Mohammed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt’s first freely elected president throughout a pair of ceremonies.
In 2016, then-Protection Secretary Ash Carter introduced that transgender folks could be allowed to serve overtly within the U.S. navy, ending one of many final bans on service within the armed forces.
In 2019, Donald Trump grew to become the primary sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea, assembly Kim Jong-un on the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
In 2020, then-Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a landmark invoice retiring the final state flag bearing the Accomplice battle emblem. Boston’s arts fee voted unanimously to take away a statue depicting a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s toes.
In 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, shattering a glass ceiling as the primary Black lady on the nation’s highest court docket.
At present’s Birthdays:
- Actor Lea Massari (“L’Avventura”) is 92.
- Actor Nancy Dussault (doo-SOH’) is 89.
- Olympic observe champion Billy Mills is 87.
- Oceanographer Robert Ballard is 83.
- Singer-songwriter Glenn Shorrock (Little River Band) is 81.
- Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is 74.
- Actor David Garrison (“Married…with Youngsters) is 73.
- Actor-comedian David Alan Grier is 69.
- Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is 67.
- Actor Vincent D’Onofrio is 66.
- Actor Deirdre Lovejoy (“The Wire”) is 63.
- Actor Rupert Graves is 62.
- Boxer Mike Tyson is 59.
- Actor Monica Potter is 54.
- Actor Rick Gonzalez is 46.
- Actor Lizzy Caplan is 43.
- Nation music singer-songwriter Cole Swindell is 42.
- Singer and actress Fantasia is 41.
- Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps is 40.
- Baseball participant Trea Turner is 32.
