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30 June
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1817 Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India", Indian Parsi scholar, trader, and politician, was born.
- 1855 Santhal Rebellion was started when two Santhal rebel leaders, Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu, mobilized roughly 60,000 Santhals and declared a rebellion against the East India Company.
- 1914 Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1857 Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin's Hall in London—his first public reading.
- 1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1908 A powerful natural explosion from an unknown cause rocked the Tunguska Basin, in eastern Siberia, flattening hundreds of square miles of forest and resulting in tremors that could be felt hundreds of miles away.
- 1908 A powerful natural explosion from an unknown cause rocked the Tunguska Basin, in eastern Siberia, flattening hundreds of square miles of forest and resulting in tremors that could be felt hundreds of miles away. Some scientists maintain that the event was caused by an asteroid (large meteoroid) perhaps 50–100 metres (150–300 feet) in diameter and having a stony or carbonaceous composition.
- 1936 Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was published in New York.
- 1960 Zaire, formerly Belgian Congo and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, declared its independence from Belgium.
- 1971 The crew of Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 dies after the loss of air supply. The cause of the tragedy was a faulty valve.
- 1997 JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released in the United Kingdom.
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