Today in History
What happened today in history?
Today is June 30. A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred today in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened this day in history.
This day in History
?>1971
Three Soviet cosmonauts die when their spacecraft depressurizes during reentry.
1960
Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, opens.
1948
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.
1936
Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With the Wind, is published.
1934
Adolf Hitler orders the purge of his own party in the “Night of the Long Knives.”
1908
A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons.
1859
Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1857
Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin’s Hall in London–his first public reading.
1520
Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan during the night.