9 Tir 1374 | Friday 30 June 1995

This day in four calendars

1422 (604 years ago) Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
1882 (144 years ago) Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
1905 (121 years ago) Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1908 (118 years ago) The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
1916 (110 years ago) World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
1934 (92 years ago) The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
2019 (7 years ago) Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
2023 (3 years ago) A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.

1470 (556 years ago) Charles VIII of France,
1893 (133 years ago) Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician, chief decision maker and head of state of the GDR (East Germany) (died 1973)
1911 (115 years ago) Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
1926 (100 years ago) Paul Berg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
1936 (90 years ago) Assia Djebar, Algerian-French author and translator (died 2015)
1954 (72 years ago) Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia
1966 (60 years ago) Mike Tyson, American boxer and actor
1985 (41 years ago) Michael Phelps, American swimmer

1522 (504 years ago) Johann Reuchlin, German humanist and Hebrew scholar (born 1455)
1919 (107 years ago) John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)
1934 (92 years ago) Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (born 1882)
1961 (65 years ago) Lee de Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (born 1873)
1966 (60 years ago) Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (born 1906)
2009 (17 years ago) Pina Bausch, German dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1940)
2012 (14 years ago) Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1915)
2017 (9 years ago) Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician (born 1927)