Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1651 - Battle of Beresteczko ends with Polish victory
• 1908 - Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia
• 1936 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published
• 1956 - A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collided above Grand Canyon, Arizona killing 128
• 1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11 spacecraft killed when air supply escapes through faulty valve
• 1971 - The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, lowering the voting age to 18, ratified as Ohio became the 38th state to approve it
• 2002 - May 31 through June 30 - 17th Football World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

• 1470 - Charles VIII of France, King of France (+ 1498)
• 1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, master builder (+ 1766)
• 1775 - Paul de Barras, politician (+ 1829)
• 1789 - Horace Vernet, painter and graphic artist (+ 1863)
• 1807 - Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, narrator, lyricist, philosopher (+ 1887)
• 1817 - Joseph Dalton Hooker, botanist († 1911)
• 1893 - Walter Ulbricht, politician (+ 1973)
• 1917 - Lena Horne, actress and singer
• 1917 - Susan Hayward, actress (+ 1975)
• 1934 - Harry Blackstone, Junior, magician (+ 1997)
• 1943 - Florence Ballard, singer; member of the Supremes (+1976)
• 1944 - Raymond Moody, parapsychologist
• 1963 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen, guitarist
• 1966 - Mike Tyson, world champion boxer
• 1985 - Fabiana Vallejos, Argentine soccer player

• 1934 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi government official
• 1961 - Lee DeForest, American inventor
• 1971 - Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolsky, and Vladislav Volkov, cosmonautss on Soyuz 11
• 1993 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor
• 1995 - Gale Gordon, actor
• 1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
• 2001 - Chet Atkins, country and western musician

June 29 - July 1 - May 30 - July 30 -- listing of all days

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