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Events on June 30

• 1377 The foundation stone of Ulm Minster is laid by Mayor Ludwig Krafft under master builder Heinrich II. Parler.
• 1894 In London, Tower Bridge is opened to traffic. The bascule bridge, built in the Neo-Gothic style, is the easternmost bridge over the Thames in the British capital.
• 1905 Albert Einstein's paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies is submitted to the editorial office of Annalen der Physik. It lays the foundation for special relativity. It is Einstein's third and most important paper in the so-called “Annus mirabilis” of physics.
• 1934 The Night of the Long Knives begins, during which the entire senior leadership of the SA is murdered by the National Socialists to prevent an alleged coup. In the action ordered by Adolf Hitler, other persons considered unpopular meet their death, which is subsequently portrayed by law as “state self-defence”.
• 1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind (Gone with the Wind) is published.
• 1972 For the first time, a leap second is added to the end of the day to synchronise official time with mean solar time.
• 1981 The ARD begins broadcasting the television series Dallas.
• 1990 The East German mark loses its validity.
• 1996 In the final of the European Football Championship in England, Germany defeats the Czech Republic with a golden goal by Oliver Bierhoff.
• 2006 One day before the start of the Tour de France, Jan Ullrich, Óscar Sevilla, sports director Rudy Pevenage and Ivan Basso, along with six other riders, are excluded from the race amid the doping scandal involving the doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.
• 2010 In Berlin, the 14th Federal Convention elects the former Minister-President of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff as the tenth Federal President of Germany in the third round of voting.
• 2017 The German Bundestag decides by a clear majority to introduce same-sex marriage.

Born on June 30

• 1911 Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, Nobel laureate
• 1912 Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer and entrepreneur
• 1913 Herta Heuwer, German snack bar owner, regarded as the inventor of currywurst
• 1926 Peter Alexander, Austrian singer, actor and entertainer
• 1941 Otto Sander, German actor
• 1952 Stefan Zauner, German singer
• 1973 Frank Rost, German footballer
• 1974 Juli Zeh, German lawyer and writer
• 1981 Alissa Jung, German actress
• 1981 Barbora Špotáková, Czech track and field athlete

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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