1. Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan during the night.on June 30 1520
2. Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin’s Hall in London–his first public reading.on June 30 1857
3. Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.on June 30 1859
4. 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.on June 30 1908
5. Adolf Hitler orders the purge of his own party in the “Night of the Long Knives.”on June 30 1934
6. Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With the Wind, is published.on June 30 1936
7. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.on June 30 1948
8. Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, opens.on June 30 1960
9. Three Soviet cosmonauts die when their spacecraft depressurizes during reentry.on June 30 1971
2. Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin’s Hall in London–his first public reading.on June 30 1857
3. Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.on June 30 1859
4. 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.on June 30 1908
5. Adolf Hitler orders the purge of his own party in the “Night of the Long Knives.”on June 30 1934
6. Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With the Wind, is published.on June 30 1936
7. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.on June 30 1948
8. Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, opens.on June 30 1960
9. Three Soviet cosmonauts die when their spacecraft depressurizes during reentry.on June 30 1971
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