30 June

John Gay
30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732
English poet and author, wrote ‘The Beggar’s Opera’. » more

Horace Vernet
30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863
French Academic artist. Paintings can be seen in the Louvre, Paris; National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. » more

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849
English poet and author. » more

Georges Duhamel
30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966
French author – and member of the Académie Française. » more

Lena Horne
30 June 1917 – 9 May 2010
American singer. Remembered for her version of ‘Stormy Weather’. » more

Ed Yost
30 June 1919 – 27 May 2007
American pioneer of the modern hot-air balloon. » more

Robert Ballard
30 June 1942
American oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic and the German battleship Bismark. » more

Ralf Schumacher
30 June 1975
German Grand Prix winning racing car driver. » more

Today’s Quote
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
 … Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)

Today’s No. 1 Hit
1964 – I Get Around by The Beach Boys

Today’s events
30 June 1859 – The Niagara Falls crossed by French acrobat Charles Blondin, by tightrope.
30 June 1894 – Tower Bridge in London opens.
30 June 1896 – William Hadaway receives a patent for his design for an ‘Automatically Controlled Electric Oven’ (electric stove).
30 June 1908 – The Tunguska explosion suspected to have been caused by an ‘air burst’ from a meteoroid devastates a large area in northern Siberia.
30 June 1936 – The book ‘Gone With the Wind’ is published.
30 June 1940 – The comic strip ‘Brenda Starr’ premieres in Chicago, U.S.A.