Historical Events on June 30 (Part 2)

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• 1983 KBS Special Live Broadcast “Finding Dispersed Families” begins daily in Korea, documenting reunion attempts after the Cold War (later included in UNESCO's Memory of the World) [1]
• 1984 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
• 1984 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds

• 1985 39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut
• 1985 LA Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 HRs in June
• 1985 Revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The King & I" closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 191 performances
• 1985 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Edgewood Tahore GC: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Roberto De Vincenzo for back-to-back Senior Open titles
• 1986 Georgia sodomy law upheld by US Supreme Court (5-4)

• 1987 Patrik Sjöberg of Sweden sets a new men's high jump world record 2.42m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) in Stockholm, Sweden
• 1987 The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie

• 1988 Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Florida
• 1988 French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
• 1988 Sitcom "Sledge Hammer!" last airs on ABC-TV

• 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Muzyczyny in Gdynia, Poland
• 1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
• 1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
• 1989 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
• 1989 US Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
• 1989 US Congressman Donald Lukens found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
• 1990 East and West Germany merge their economies

• 1991 South Africa's Government repeals the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act)
• 1992 "End of the Road" single released by Boyz II Men (Grammy Award Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best R&B Song 1993, Billboard Song of the Year 1992)
• 1992 1st pay bathrooms in US open: 25 cents (NYC)
• 1992 Fidel Ramos installed as president of the Philippines

• 1992 Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s)
• 1993 "Les Miserables" opens at Point Theatre, Dublin
• 1993 NBA Draft: Michigan center Chris Webber first pick by Orlando Magic (traded to Golden State)
• 1993 Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
• 1994 Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
• 1994 Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games

• 1995 Exxon signs a $15.2-billion deal to develop oil and gas fields near Russia's Sakhalin Island

• 1996 "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 performances
• 1996 "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 308 performances
• 1996 "State Fair" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances
• 1996 Caroline Frolic (Miss Ontario), crowned Miss Renaissance USA
• 1996 UEFA European Championship Final, Wembley Stadium, London, England: Oliver Bierhoff scores his second goal in extra time as Germany beat Czech Republic, 2-1
• 1997 British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong, established by the Second Convention of Peking, expires
• 1997 Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks
• 1998 Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down
• 1999 NBA Draft: Duke power forward Elton Brand first pick by Chicago Bulls
• 2001 ENI of Italy signs a $550 million contract to develop Iran's Darquain field, expected to produce 160,000 barrels of petroleum per day

• 2004 British rock guitarist Dave Davies (The Kinks) suffers a debilitating stroke, at 57; he recovers in 2006 to resume his music career
• 2005 Spain legalizes same-sex marriage.
• 2006 Cirque du Soleil's musical-acrobatic extravaganza "The Beatles - LOVE" opens in a specially built theatre at The Mirage, Las Vegas, Nevada
• 2007 A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack

• 2009 Turkey records its fastest contraction of 13.8% in the first quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, leading the country into recession; this is Turkey's biggest economic slump since 1945
• 2009 Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
• 2012 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
• 2012 Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia

• 2013 19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona
• 2013 30 people are killed after a fuel truck explodes in Kampala, Uganda
• 2013 NHL Draft: Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL) center Nathan MacKinnon #1 pick by Colorado Avalanche

• 2014 Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
• 2014 The corpses of the 3 Israeli teenagers kidnapped in the West Bank earlier in month are found

• 2015 A man self-immolates aboard a Nozomi Shinkansen train and kills one other passenger in Japan
• 2015 Hercules transporter plane crashes minutes after take-off in Medan, Indonesia killing 116

• 2017 Germany votes to legalize same-sex marriage in a snap vote

• 2018 Kile Smith's a cappella choral musical work "The Arc in the Sky", settings of poems by Robert Lax, premieres at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, performed by The Crossing, led by Donald Nally
• 2018 March of the Flowers in Managua, Nicaragua, commemorating youth killed under government crackdown turns violent with 1 person killed and eight injured
• 2018 The popular online game for children, Fantage, shuts down after ten years
• 2018 Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England; authorities suspect source was left over poison from the attack on former Russian spies Sergei Skripal and his daughter

• 2019 Large protests in Khartoum, Sudan, against continuing military rule, kill seven and injure 181
• 2019 New York marks 50 years since the Stonewall Uprising sparked the modern gay rights movement with huge pride marches

• 2019 US Open Senior Men's Golf, Warren GC: Steve Stricker wins his second Champions Tour major of the year by 6 strokes from David Toms and Jerry Kelly
• 2020 China's new national security legislation for Hong Kong comes into force

• 2020 For the 1st time less than half the working age population is working in Brazil, with 7.8 million losing their job March - May, according to Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
• 2021 American Abhimanyu Mishra becomes the youngest chess grandmaster ever at 12 years and 4 months, surpassing Sergey Karjakin
• 2021 American actress Allison Mack sentenced to three years for her role in the NXVIM sex cult in New York state
• 2021 Bangladesh begins a one-week lockdown enforced by the army as COVID-19 cases soar due to the Delta variant
• 2021 Extreme heat wave caused at least 100 deaths in British Columbia according to state Coroners' Office [1]

• 2021 World's oldest man is 112-year-old Emilio "Don Millo" Flores Márquez (born 8 August 1908) from Puerto Rico according to Guinness World Records [1]
• 2022 Bongbong Marcos, son of Ferdinand Marcos, is sworn in as President of the Philippines
• 2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson (51) sworn in as 104th justice of US Supreme Court, replacing Stephen Breyer (83) upon his retirement; 1st Black woman (6th female, and 3rd Black) to be seated
• 2022 New York is named world's wealthiest city, home to 345,600 millionaires, and 59 billionaires, with Tokyo and San Francisco making up the top three [1]
• 2022 US Supreme Court landmark ruling, limits US Environment Protection agency to regulate power plant pollution, in case brought by West Virginia [1]

• 2023 US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that graphic artist can refuse work from a same-sex couple in a defeat for gay rights [1]

• 2023 Vienna Austria based newspaper Wiener Zeitung final print edition headline reads "320 years, 12 presidents, 10 emperors, 2 republics, 1 newspaper” as they become an on-line only entity

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