Wikipedia:Main Page history/2017 June 30

Soo Yeon Lee

• ... that table tennis player and model Soo Yeon Lee (pictured) has coached numerous celebrities and is a brand ambassador for a chain of table tennis bars?
• ... that Pu Songling wrote "Tian Qilang" with a Chinese killer in mind?
• ... that Douglas Putnam served in the Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War, and later published an eyewitness account of the battle?
• ... that the total known population of the critically endangered shrub Persoonia pauciflora is within 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) of the type specimen?
• ... that N. V. Madhusudana demonstrated the electromechanical coupling effects of cholesteric liquid crystals for the first time?
• ... that human sacrifices were performed on Pichu Pichu, an extinct volcano near Arequipa?
• ... that a Lebanese postage stamp featuring Anissa Rawda Najjar was issued in 2014, soon after her 100th birthday?
• ... that arson in royal dockyards‎ was one of the last four crimes in the United Kingdom to carry the death penalty?
• ... that Informatics General developed and marketed the first software product to have cumulative sales of $1 million, $10 million, and $100 million?

Michael Nyqvist

• In sailing, the America's Cup concludes with Team New Zealand defeating Oracle Team USA.
• An oil truck explosion in Ahmedpur East
  , Pakistan, kills at least 150 people and injures more than 100 others.
• The
  infected with cholera
  .
• At least 10 people are killed and more than 90 others are missing following a landslide in Sichuan, China.
• In Pakistan, at least 80 people are killed and more than 200 others are injured in
  multiple bombings in Quetta and Parachinar
  .

June 30

Tower Bridge, London

• 1860 – Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum.
• 1894 – London's Tower Bridge (pictured), a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames, opened.
• 1934 – Adolf Hitler violently purged members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), its leader Ernst Röhm, and other political rivals in the Night of the Long Knives, executing at least 85 people.
• killed seven police and military officers near Palermo
  .
• 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the Canadian one-dollar coin, commonly known as the Loonie.

Miguel de Molinos (b. 1628) · Eleanor Sophia Smith (d. 1942) · Nancy Mitford (d. 1973)

The current 400-series highway network in Southern Ontario

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