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What happened in history on this day: June 30?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On June 30 in ...
- 1983 - Texas Instruments terminates 750 jobs in TI 99/4A manufacturing plants.
- 1985 - Microsoft year-end revenue: US$140 million; profit US$31.2 million.
- 1997 - Shipments of handheld computers in the US during January to June: 1.4 million.
- 1999 - Paramount Pictures releases the film South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut to theaters in the USA and Canada.
- A personal computer with PC keyboard and mouse is used to access the Internet.
- When a holographic display is encountering difficulties, a man kicks the unit and says "F'ing Windows 98!". He calls in Bill Gates and says "You told us Windows 98 would be faster, and more efficient, with better access to the Internet!" Bill Gates tries to argue that it is, but the man shoots him.
- 1999 - Via Technology of Taiwan and National Semiconductor of California announce that Via will buy National's Cyrix division.
- 1999 - Retail software sales revenue for the past six months: 23% Microsoft products.
- 1999 - Retail operating system unit sales for the past six months: 77% Microsoft products.
- 1999 - Retail office suite unit sales for the past six months: 84% Microsoft products.
- 2001 - Macao, China, issues three postage stamps depicting a handheld computer, a computer, and linked computers.
- 2002 - U.S. consulting firm Gartner reports that approximately one billion personal computers have been shipped worldwide since the mid-1970s. The billionth PC was likely shipped in April.
- 2004 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejects the appeal of the state of Massachusetts and two industry trade groups, opposed to the antitrust settlement of the Department of Justice with Microsoft.
- 2007 - To date, Microsoft has sold over 60 million licenses to Windows Vista.
- 2008 - Last day of Microsoft making Windows XP available to PC makers.
- 2009 - Microsoft discontinues its Microsoft Money software.
- 2009 - Costa Rica issues a postage stamp for the 60th anniversary of the Costa Rican Electrical Institute, depicting a laptop computer.
- 1931 - The Silly Symphony film The Busy Beavers is released.
- 1939 - The Donald Duck film Sea Scouts is released to theaters. Huey, Dewey, and Louie also appear.
- 1941 - Disney asks IATSE head Willie Bioff to call a meeting with the strikers that night, to settle the strike. Bioff tells strikers if they sign with IATSE the strike would be settled. Later that day, Bioff is indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of complicity to extort US$500,000 from several studios.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film Hookworm to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film Cleanliness Brings Health to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
- 1945 - Disney delivers the film Insects as Carriers of Disease to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
- 1950 - RKO Radio Pictures releases the Goofy film Motor Mania to theaters.
- 1959 - Walt and Roy Disney meet with ABC TV head Leonard Goldenson, to try to gain the right to take their TV programming to other networks, or to force ABC out of their contract. No deal can be made. Roy files an antitrust lawsuit.
- 1971 - Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film The Million Dollar Duck to theaters.
- 1974 - Disneyland hosts a second "Love Bug Day".
- 1978 - Buena Vista releases the live-action feature film The Cat from Outer Space to theaters. McLean Stevenson has his film debut.
- 1984 - The South Seas Traders shop opens in Adventureland at Disneyland.
- 1986 - The Disney Channel airs Theodore Roosevelt.
- 1988 - The Videopolis Railroad Station opens in Disneyland.
- 1993 - The Walt Disney Company acquires Miramax Film Corporation, making it an autonomous division of Buena Vista Pictures. Cost is US$60 million, plus another US$40 million to assume the debt of Miramax.
- 1995 - Buena Vista Pictures releases the Hollywood Pictures live-action feature film Judge Dredd to theaters in the USA.
- 1996 - The Backstage Studios Tour at Disney-MGM Studios is renamed Disney-MGM Studios Backlot Tour.
- 1999 - At Lincoln Center, New York, Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra performs.
- 2001 - The Club Buzz - Lightyear's Above the Rest restaurant opens in Tomorrowland in Disneyland.
- 2005 - The US Postal Service releases four postage stamps depicting Disney characters: Mickey Mouse and Pluto, Alice and the Mad Hatter, Ariel and Flounder, and Snow White and Dopey.
- 2014 - The film Captain EO ceases playing at Tokyo Disneyland.
- 1953 - The first production Corvette rolls off the assembly line at Chevrolet Plant Number 35, near Flint, Michigan. Assembly line worker Tony Kleiber has the honor of driving the first Corvette off the assembly line. The Corvette is the first dream-car to become a production model, and first series-production car with a fiberglass body.
- 1995 - The film Apollo 13 is released to theaters in the US and Canada. One scene shows a red 1970 Corvette and a War Bonnet Yellow 1971 Corvette.
- 2001 - At the Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland, in Cleveland, Ohio, the Trans-Am Series 100 Presented by Simple Green is held, Round Five of the Trans-Am Series for the BFGoodrich Tires Cup.
- Finishing 5th is the LG Motorsports / G2 Performance Parts #28 Corvette, driven by Lou Gigliotti.
- Finishing 14th is the Stonier Transportation #59 Corvette, driven by Simon Gregg.
- Finishing 16th is the Cenwald Corp / McNichols Co. #23 Corvette, driven by Bob Ruman.
- Finishing 24th is the Russell Automotive Center #56 Corvette, driven by Tom Sloe.
- Finishing 25th is the Justin Bell GT Motorsport Experience #40 Corvette, driven by Justin Bell.
- Finishing 30th is the Rott Alloy Wheels #06 Corvette, driven by Joey Scarallo.
- Finishing 31st is the Preformed Line Products #49 Corvette, driven by Randy Ruhlman.
- Finishing 32nd is the Banner Engineering #66 Corvette, driven by Leighton Reese.
- 2002 - At the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, Round 3 of the American Le Mans Series is held.
- Finishing 1st in GTS class and 6th overall is the Corvette Racing #3 Corvette C5-R, driven by Ron Fellows and Johnny O'Connell.
- Finishing 2nd in GTS class and 7th overall is the Corvette Racing #4 Corvette C5-R, driven by Andy Pilgrim and Kelly Collins.
- 2002 - At the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, Round 4 of the Speed World Challenge GT Series is held.
- Finishing 18th is the #11 Corvette, driven by Craig Gelston.
- Finishing 19th is the #52 Corvette Z06, driven by Henry Gilbert.
- In 21st place, but not finishing the race, is the #35 Corvette, driven by David Farmer.
- In 22nd place, but not finishing the race, is the #73 Corvette, driven by Phil McClure.
- 2003 - Thirty 1953 Corvettes meet at Flint, Michigan, at G-300 Van Slyke at Atherton Road. Owners are permitted to drive through the original Corvette assembly plant. Many original workers are on hand for the event.
- 2005 - At Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Brumos Porsche 250 race is held, round seven of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series.
- Finishing 17th in GT class and 38th overall is the Stevenson Motorsports #57 Corvette, driven by Buddy Rice, Tommy Riggins, and John Stevenson.
- Finishing 19th in GT class and 41st overall is the Xtreme Racing Group #48 Corvette, driven by Hans Hauser and Robert Dubler.
- 2019 - At the Watkins Glen International raceway in Watkins Glen, New York, USA, the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen race is held, round 6 of the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship series.
- Finishing 2nd in GT Le Mans class and 13th overall is the Corvette Racing #3 Corvette C7.R driven by Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen.
- Finishing 8th in GT Le Mans class and 35th overall is the Corvette Racing #4 Corvette C7.R driven by Tommy Milner and Oliver Gavin.
- 1940 - German Major General Alfred Jodl writes a memorandum stating that if a strike on Britain fails, the next best place to defeat Britain is in the Mediterranean.
- 1941 - In Russia, Edwald von Kleist's 1st Panzer Group seizes Lvov.
- 1941 - German and Romanian troops threaten the Soviet town of Kishinev.
- 1941 - A large pocket of Soviet forces surrender in Bialystok.
- 1942 - In North Africa, panzer tanks of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces reach El Alamein.
- 1943 - American forces under General MacArthur begin landing in New Guinea.
- 1944 - 266 British bombers attack German panzer tanks at the Villers-Bocage road junction.
- 1989 - In Tallinn, Estonia, a conference opens devoted to legal reassessment of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1940. The conference is attended by representatives of Byelorussia, East and West Germany, Finland, Lithuania, latvia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, and Ukraine.
- 1993 - Vanautu issues five postage stamps depicting planes of World War II operated by the New Hebrides.
- 1982 - Video game machines are in about 8 million US homes.
- 1983 - Mattel announces the termination of 260 office jobs, to reduce overhead costs.
- 1984 - In Tokyo, Japan, the top three Track & Field video game players from the US play against the top three Japanese players, over two days. The world champion Gold Medalist is John Britt of Riverside, California.
- 1987 - Sega releases the OutRun video game for the Sega Mark III system in Japan.
- 1995 - The video game Arc the Lad is released for the PlayStation in Japan.
- 1998 - Take 2 Interactive releases the Grand Theft Auto video game for the PlayStation.
- 2000 - Rare releases the Perfect Dark video game for the Nintendo 64 in the UK and Europe.
- 2002 - Microsoft reports worldwide sales of the Xbox to date as 4 million. Unit sales of video games worldwide for the Xbox are about 20 million.
- 2003 - Activision sues Viacom, claiming that its ten-year exclusive deal to produce Star Trek video games is losing value due to Viacom's neglect of the franchise.
- 2003 - Total sales of video game hardware and software in the US during January-June: US$3.5 billion.
- 2004 - Total sales of video game hardware and software in the US during January-June: US$3.4 billion.
- 2007 - Microsoft's Xbox 360 business loses US$1.9 billion for the fiscal year.
- 2007 - To date, shipments of current generation video game systems in the USA: Xbox 360 5.6 million, Nintendo Wii 2.8 million, PlayStation 3 1.4 million.
- 2017 - Activision releases the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy video game for the PlayStation 4 in the USA.
- 1709 - King Karl XII and about 1300 men cross the Vorskla river, to enter Turkey and contact the army in Poland. General Lewenhaupt is ordered to take the remaining 15,000 men, detour through the Crimea, and meet up with him.
- 2001 - Sweden's six month term holding the presidency of the European Union ends.
- 1911 - The government approves modified draft proclamations, allowing the 1c design with the altered legend be used for coinage.
- 1977 - The Numismatic Hobby Protection bill passes third and fourth reading in the House of Commons. Next step is to pass the Senate.
- 1987 - Canada's new $1 coin, dubbed the "Loonie" or "Looney", is officially launched.
- 1988 - The Finance Minister announces the government will stop issuing $1 bills on June 30, 1989.
- 1989 - The Bank of Canada stops issuing one dollar notes.
- 1992 - A Royal proclamation specifies that the design of a $1 bronze-plated nickel coin depict three children and the centre block of the Parliament Buildings, and show the dates "1867-1992".
- 1795 - Mint Director David Rittenhouse resigns due to ill health.
- 1835 - Resignation of Mint Director Samuel Moore takes effect.
- 1837 - The Philadelphia Mint strikes a few proof dimes of the seated Liberty design.
- 1859 - Mint Director James Ross Snowden exchanges with R. Coulton Davis a Proof 1838 Gobrecht dollar for a 1791 Washington cent for the Mint cabinet.
- 1870 - The Carson City Mint completes dollar coinage for the year, a total of 12,462 pieces.
- 1942 - US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation.
- 1908 - Boston Red Sox' pitcher Cy Young's second no-hitter, beats New York Highlanders, 8-0.
- 1913 - New York Giants score 10 runs in 10th inning to beat Philadelphia Phillies 11-1.
- 1916 - Chick Evans Junior wins golf's US Open.
- 1933 - Saint Louis Cardinals' Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Chicago Cubs to win 8-2.
- 1934 - NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become the Detroit Lions.
- 1938 - Final game at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 14-1.
- 1948 - Cleveland Indians' Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0.
- 1954 - New York Yankees' pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting three batters in one inning.
- 1959 - During a game in Wrigley Field, two balls are in play at same time.
- 1962 - Los Angeles Dodgers' Sandy Koufax no-hits New York Mets, 5-0.
- 1962 - Murie Lindstrom wins US Women's Golf Open.
- 1965 - NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise.
- 1967 - Philadelphia Phillies' Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining team.
- 1969 - Derek Clayton of Australia sets marathon record at 2:08:34.
- 1970 - First baseball game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium.
- 1970 - Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City.
- 1972 - Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in National League (and go on to win the pennant).
- 1976 - John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 metre, 4:51.4.
- 1977 - New York Yankees' designated hitter Cliff Johnson hits three consecutive home runs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- 1978 - Larry Doby becomes manager of the Chicago White Sox.
- 1978 - Willie McCovey becomes the 12th to hit 500 home runs.
- 1987 - Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump.
- 1991 - Portugal wins the FIFA U-20 World Cup defeating Brazil on the final by 4-2, after penalty shoot out, in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1996 - Germany beats the Czech Republic 2-1 to become the 1996 European soccer champion.
- 1999 - After a loss at Wimbledon, Boris Becker announces that he will end his tennis career.
- 2002 - Brazil defeats Germany in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
- 2006 - Boston Red Sox set a new Major League record of 17 consecutive errorless games.
- 2007 - The FIFA U-20 World Cup 2007 soccer tournament takes place in Canada.
- 2010 - 24-year-old Czech Tomas Berdych defeats six-time Wimbledon tennis champ Roger Federer of Switzerland 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the Wimbledon elimination matches.
- 2019 - At the Watkins Glen International raceway in Watkins Glen, New York, USA, the Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen race is held, round 6 of the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship series.
- Finishing 1st in DPi class and 1st overall is the Mazda Team Joest #55 Mazda DPi driven by Olivier Pla, Jonathan Bomarito, and Harry Tincknell.
- Finishing 1st in LMP2 class and 10th overall is the PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports #52 ORECA LMP2 driven by Matt McMurry, Gabriel Aubry, and Eric Lux.
- Finishing 1st in GT Le Mans class and 12th overall is the Porsche GT Team #911 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Nick Tandy and Patrick Pilet.
- Finishing 1st in GT Daytona class and 18th overall is the Meyer Shank Racing #86 Acura NSX GT3 driven by Mario Farnbacher, Trent Hindman, and Justin Marks.
- 2022 - At Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Los Angeles Dodgers beats San Diego Padres by score 3-1.
- 2022 - At T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Washington, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Seattle Mariners beats Oakland Athletics by score 8-6.
- 2022 - At Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Chicago Cubs beats Cincinnati Reds by score 15-7.
- 2022 - At Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Major League Baseball regular season game: Toronto Blue Jays beats Tampa Bay Rays by score 4-1.
- 2022 - At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Pittsburgh Pirates beats Milwaukee Brewers by score 8-7.
- 2022 - At Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Houston Astros beats New York Yankees by score 2-1.
- 2022 - At Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Philadelphia Phillies beats Atlanta Braves by score 14-4.
- 2022 - At Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Major League Baseball regular season game: Cleveland Guardians beats Minnesota Twins by score 5-3.
- 1902 - S I Bailey discovers asteroid #504 Cora.
- 1935 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella.
- 1961 - Explorer 12 fails to reach Earth orbit.
- 1964 - Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit.
- 1970 - T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2139 Makharadze.
- 1971 - Three cosmonauts die as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry.
- 1973 - Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse.
- 1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile, and Guam.
- 2007 - A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.
- 1794 - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio.
- 1834 - US Congress creates Indian Territory (later Oklahoma).
- 1862 - Day six of the Seven Days - Battle of White Oak Swamp.
- 1864 - US President Abraham Lincoln signs act ceding Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to California for preservation as a state park.
- 1864 - Congress authorizes three-year interest-bearing notes.
- 1870 - Riverboats Natchez and Robert E. Lee race from New Orleans to Saint Louis, with the Lee winning by six hours 33 minutes.
- 1881 - Henry Highland Garnet is named US minister to Liberia.
- 1882 - Death of Charles Guiteau by hanging, for the assassination of President James Garfield.
- 1900 - Four German liners burn at Hobokon Docks, New Jersey, USA; 326 die.
- 1906 - The Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Meat Inspection Act are adopted in the USA.
- 1911 - US Assay Office in Saint Louis, Missouri closes.
- 1918 - In Richardton, North Dakota, USA, a chondrite meteorite falls striking a building.
- 1927 - US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes.
- 1930 - First round-the-world radio broadcast, Schenectady, New York.
- 1933 - US Assay Offices in Helena (Montana), Boise (Idaho), and Salt Lake City (Utah) close.
- 1936 - The book Gone with the Wind is published, written by Margaret Mitchell.
- 1936 - 40-hour work week law approved (federal).
- 1940 - US Fish and Wildlife Service is established.
- 1942 - US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation.
- 1948 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William Shockley of Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrate their new invention of the transistor as a substitute for radio vaccuum tubes.
- 1950 - US President Harry Truman orders US troops into Korea.
- 1951 - In the USA, NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination.
- 1953 - The first production Corvette rolls off the assembly line at Chevrolet Plant Number 35, near Flint, Michigan, USA. The Corvette is the first dream-car to become a production model, and first series-production car with a fiberglass body.
- 1961 - Explorer 12 fails to reach Earth orbit.
- 1971 - Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve of lowering the voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment.
- 1974 - Alberta King [Mrs Martin Luther King Sr] is shot and killed in church.
- 1974 - Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester, New York).
- 1974 - The US Highway Post Office bus makes its final run, over Cincinnati to Cleveland Ohio route.
- 1977 - US President Jimmy Carter cancels B-1A bomber, later "B-1's the B-52".
- 1977 - US Railway Post Office final train run (New York to Washington DC).
- 1982 - US Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails three states short of ratification.
- 1989 - Katherine Davalos Ortega ends term as US Treasurer.
- 1989 - US Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the United Kingdom.
- 1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile, and Guam.
- 1989 - New York State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill.
- 1997 - In past 12 months, Nevada state gaming industry recorded $7.6 billion gross revenue, paying $445 million in tax.
- 2003 - Rosario Marin's term as Treasurer of the US ends.
- 2008 - US President George Bush signs a US$162 billion war spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan.
- 2009 - Minnesota Supreme Court rules Al Franken is the winner of the November 2008 election as US Senator, by a margin of 312 votes. This gives the Democrats 60 senators in Congress.
Other history:
- 1894 - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid.
- 1908 - Giant (50-60m diameter) meteorite explodes 5-10 kilometres above Central Siberia. About 80 million trees are felled in an area 2000 square kilometres.
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