Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 30

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 * 1559 – During a jousting match, King Henry II of France was mortally wounded when fragments of Gabriel Montgomery's lance pierced his eye.
 * 1598 – Anglo-Spanish War: After a 15-day siege Spanish troops in San Juan, modern-day Puerto-Rico, surrendered to an English force under Sir George Clifford.
 * 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Gorge, making him one of the world's most famous tightrope walkers.
 * 1860 – Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
 * 1908 – A massive explosion, generally attributed to a meteor air burst, occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river in Siberia, flattening around 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest.
 * 1922 – An agreement was signed to end the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
 * 1960 – The Belgian Congo gained independence from colonial rule, beginning a period of instability that would lead to the dictatorship of Joseph-Désiré Mobutu.
 * 1963 – The coronation of Pope Paul VI (pictured) took place, the last such ceremony before its abandonment by later popes.
 * 1966 – The National Organization for Women, a leading United States feminist organization, was founded in Washington, D.C.
 * 2009 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros, killing 152 people, with French schoolgirl Bahia Bakari the sole survivor.
 * 2015 – An Indonesian Air Force military transport aircraft crashed near a residential neighborhood in Medan, killing 139 people.
 * Born/died: | Erentrude|d|718| Æthelred |d|888| William Oughtred |d|1660| John Quelch |d|1704| Toyohara Kunichika|b|1835| Frederick Bligh Bond|b|1864| Alberto Henschel |d|1882| María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías |b|1912| Eunice Gibbs Allyn |d|1916| Assia Djebar|b|1936| Eleanor Sophia Smith |d|1942| Terri Lynn Land |b|1958| Tony Fernández |b|1962| Nancy Mitford |d|1973| Allegra Versace |b|1986| Chris Gragg |b|1990| Margaret|b|1991| Abdur Razzaq Iskander |d|2021|