June 30 - This Day in History

June 30 : General Interest
1936: Gone with the Wind published

Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published on this day in 1936... read more


American Revolution
1775 : Congress impugns Parliament and adopts Articles of War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-impugns-parliament-and-adopts-articles-of-war


Automotive
1953 : First Corvette built
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-corvette-built


Civil War
1862 : Fighting continues in the Seven Days' Battles
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-glendale-white-oak-swamp


Cold War
1950 : Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-orders-forces-to-korea


Crime
1981 : A first-time offender ends up on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-first-time-offender-ends-up-on-the-fbis-ten-most-wanted-list


Disaster
1900 : Fire breaks out at New Jersey pier
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fire-breaks-out-at-new-jersey-pier


General Interest
1520 : Spanish retreat from Aztec capital
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/spanish-retreat-from-aztec-capital

1859 : Daredevil crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/daredevil-crosses-niagara-falls-on-tightrope

1934 : Night of the Long Knives
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/night-of-the-long-knives

1971 : Soviet cosmonauts perish in reentry disaster
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-cosmonauts-perish-in-reentry-disaster


Literary
2003 : Make Way for Ducklings author Robert McCloskey dies
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/make-way-for-ducklings-author-robert-mccloskey-dies


Music
1975 : Cher marries Greg Allman
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cher-marries-greg-allman


Old West
1876 : Soldiers are evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soldiers-are-evacuated-from-the-little-big-horn-by-steamboat


Presidential
1812 : Madison makes urgent call to commission more officers to fight the British
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/madison-makes-urgent-call-to-commission-more-officers-to-fight-the-british


Sports
1962 : Sandy Koufax pitches first no-hitter
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sandy-koufax-pitches-first-no-hitter


Vietnam War
1967 : Thieu becomes president
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thieu-becomes-president

1970 : Cooper-Church Amendment passes in Senate
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cooper-church-amendment-passes-in-senate


World War I
1914 : European powers maintain focus despite killings in Sarajevo
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/european-powers-maintain-focus-despite-killings-in-sarajevo


World War II
1943 : Operation Cartwheel is launched
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-cartwheel-is-launched