444 Historic Events for June 30
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| 1666 |
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Alexander Brome, British poet
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| 1669 |
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Mauritius Vogt, composer
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| 1685 |
Birth |
John Gay, author (Baggars' Opera)
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| 1685 |
Birth |
Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche)
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| 1685 |
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Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55
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| 1688 |
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Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van Orange on Protestantism
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| 1690 |
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Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Neth/English fleet
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| 1700 |
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Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)
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| 1722 |
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Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions
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| 1722 |
Birth |
Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
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| 1723 |
Birth |
Christian Ernst Graf, composer
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| 1734 |
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Russian army occupies Danzig
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| 1741 |
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Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
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| 1743 |
Birth |
Niels Schiorring, composer
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| 1748 |
Birth |
Jacques D "comte" Cassini, French astronomer
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| 1755 |
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Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
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| 1768 |
Birth |
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
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| 1789 |
Birth |
E J Horace Vernet, French painter
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| 1791 |
Birth |
F‚lix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot and Savart)
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| 1792 |
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Francesco Antonio Rosetti, composer, dies
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| 1794 |
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Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio
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| 1807 |
Birth |
Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
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| 1810 |
Birth |
Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism)
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| 1815 |
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US naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates
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| 1817 |
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Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
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