This day in History - June 30

444 Historic Events for June 30
1938 Birth William Mervin Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-64)
1938 Event Final game at Phila's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phils 14-1
1938 Birth Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist (Vivat Vivaldi)
1939 Event Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1939 Birth Lindembergue Cardoso, composer
1940 Event "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 Event 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month
1940 Event US Fish and Wildlife Service forms
1941 Birth Micki Grant, composer
1941 Birth John Jameson, cricketer (England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai)
1941 Birth Mike Leander Farr, record producer
1941 Birth Peter Pollock, cricketer (bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie)
1941 Birth Larry Hall, rocker (Tape Heads)
1941 Event 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month
1941 Event Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1942 Event Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
1942 Event US bombs Celebes and Timor
1942 Event US Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1942 Event 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month
1942 Birth Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer (Titanic in 1985)
1942 Death Arnoldus J H Aerts, Dutch bishop of New-Guinea, executed at 62
1943 Event Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)
1943 Birth Florence Ballard, Detroit Mich, rocker (Supremes)
1944 Birth Glenn Shorrock, Sydney Australia, rock vocalist (Little River Band)
1944 Event Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen