Today in History: June 30, Night of the Long Knives
In the modern day is Monday June the st day of There are days left in the year In the modern day in history On June Adolf Hitler launched his blood purge of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as the Night of the Long Knives Also on this date In labor activist and socialist Eugene V Debs was arrested in Cleveland charged under the Espionage Act of for a speech he had made two weeks earlier in which he denounced U S involvement in World War I Debs was sentenced to prison and disenfranchised for life Related Articles NYC San Francisco and other US cities capping LGBTQ Pride month with a mix of party and protest Star witness against Kilmar Abrego Garcia won t be deported court records show At present in History June Apple releases the first iPhone to consumers In the modern day in History June Franz Ferdinand assassinated Federal judge denies OpenAI bid to keep deleting input amid Daily News copyright lawsuit In President Warren G Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the United States succeeding the late Edward Douglass White In Margaret Mitchell s novel Gone With the Wind was issued In the U S Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill In the Supreme Court ruled - that the authorities could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers In A Soviet space mission ended in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz were located dead of asphyxiation inside their capsule after it had returned to Earth In American hostages from a hijacked TWA jetliner were freed in Beirut after being held for days In the U S Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the national championship and banned her for life for her role in the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan In American soldier Pfc Bowe R Bergdahl went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later ratified to have been captured by insurgents after walking away from his post Bergdahl was disclosed on May in exchange for five Taliban detainees he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy but was spared a prison sentence by a military judge In Islamist Mohammed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt s first freely elected president during a pair of ceremonies In then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter stated that transgender people would be allowed to serve openly in the U S military ending one of the last bans on function in the armed forces In Donald Trump became the first sitting U S president to set foot in North Korea meeting Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea In then-Mississippi Gov Tate Reeves signed a landmark bill retiring the last state flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem Boston s arts commission voted unanimously to remove a statue depicting a freed slave kneeling at Abraham Lincoln s feet In Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the U S Supreme Court shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation s highest court In current times s Birthdays Actor Lea Massari L Avventura is Actor Nancy Dussault doo-SOH is Olympic track champion Billy Mills is Oceanographer Robert Ballard is Singer-songwriter Glenn Shorrock Little River Band is Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is Actor David Garrison Married with Children is Actor-comedian David Alan Grier is Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is Actor Vincent D Onofrio is Actor Deirdre Lovejoy The Wire is Actor Rupert Graves is Boxer Mike Tyson is Actor Monica Potter is Actor Rick Gonzalez is Actor Lizzy Caplan is Country music singer-songwriter Cole Swindell is Singer and actress Fantasia is Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps is Baseball competitor Trea Turner is
