June 30

Today in History
• 1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland
• 1377 - Foundation stone laid for Ulm Minster, Germany, Will not be completed until 1890
• 1520 - Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt
• 1548 - Augsburg Interim becomes law - orders Lutherans to return to Catholic practices
• 1559 - King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match
• 1665 - The deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6,137 people
• 1755 - Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
• 1805 - Michigan Territory organizes


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Congo Independence Day
• Drive Your Corvette to Work Day
• International Asteroid Day
• International Day of Parliamentarism
• National Corvette Day
• National Food Truck Day
• National OOTD Day
• Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day

Birthdays
• 1468 - Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony (1525-32)
• 1470 - Charles VIII, King of France, 1483-98
• 1685 - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, Liebfrauenkirche
• 1768 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, First Lady of the United States (1817-25)
• 1791 - Felix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, law of Biot and Savart
• 1819 - William A. Wheeler, American politician (19th Vice President of the United States)
• 1860 - Gyula Andrássy, Jr., Hungarian politician (Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (1918-20)
• 1906 - Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal (1911-55)