30 June

Notable Births

Tom Davies (footballer, born 1998)

b. 1998

English association football player

A. J. Brown

b. 1997

American football player (born 1997)

Reuben Garrick

b. 1997

Australian rugby league footballer

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b. 1995

Canadian rapper (born 1995)

Trea Turner

b. 1993

American baseball player (born 1993)

Asbel Kiprop

b. 1989

Kenyan middle-distance runner

David Myers (Australian footballer)

b. 1989

Australian rules footballer

Jacksfilms

b. 1988

American internet personality (born 1988)

Joe Mazzulla

b. 1988

American basketball coach (born 1988)

Ryan Cook (baseball)

b. 1987

American baseball player (born 1987)

Alicia Fox

b. 1986

American professional wrestler

Fredy Guarín

b. 1986

Colombian footballer (born 1986)

Nicola Pozzi

b. 1986

Italian footballer

Michael Phelps

b. 1985

American swimmer (born 1985)

Trevor Ariza

b. 1985

American basketball player (born 1985)

Cody Rhodes

b. 1985

American professional wrestler (born 1985)

Fabiana Vallejos

b. 1985

Argentine footballer

Fantasia (singer)

b. 1984

American R&B singer (born 1984)

Tony Fernández

b. 1962

Dominican baseball player (1962–2020)

Assia Djebar

b. 1936

Algerian feminist novelist (1936–2015)

Notable Deaths

Kenneth Colley

d. 2025

English actor (1937–2025)

Jim Shooter

d. 2025

American comic book writer (1951–2025)

Raj Kaushal

d. 2021

Indian director, producer, stunt director (1970–2021)

Stella Madzimbamuto

d. 2020

African nurse, Zimbabwean nationalist, civil rights and women's rights activist

Smoke Dawg

d. 2018

Canadian rapper (1996–2018)

Barry Norman

d. 2017

British film critic

Simone Veil

d. 2017

French politician (1927–2017)

Charles W. Bagnal

d. 2015

United States Army general

Robert Dewar

d. 2015

Computer scientist

Leonard Starr

d. 2015

American cartoonist (1925–2015)

Frank Cashen

d. 2014

American baseball executive

Paul Mazursky

d. 2014

American director, screenwriter, and actor (1930–2014)

Željko Šturanović

d. 2014

Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2006 to 2008

Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway

d. 2013

British judge, barrister and author

Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun

d. 2012

Australian politician (1942–2012)

Yitzhak Shamir

d. 2012

Prime Minister of Israel (1983–1984; 1986–1992)

Michael J. Ybarra

d. 2012

American journalist, author and adventurer (1966-2012)

Pina Bausch

d. 2009

German dancer and choreographer (1940–2009)

Harve Presnell

d. 2009

American actor and singer (1933–2009)

Gustav Ritter von Kahr

d. 1934

German politician (1862–1934)

On This Day in History

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2023

A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.

Tajikistan

2021

The Tiger Fire ignites near Black Canyon City, Arizona, and goes on to burn 16,278 acres (6,587 ha) of land before being fully contained on July 30.

Tiger Fire

2020

The Hong Kong National Security Law is passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and immediately comes into effect after gazettal.

2020 Hong Kong national security law

2019

Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).

Donald Trump

2015

A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.

Lockheed C-130 Hercules

2013

Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona.

Yarnell Hill Fire

2013

Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.

June 2013 Egyptian protests

2009

Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.

Yemenia Flight 626

2007

A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before.

Jeep Cherokee