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History on the 30th of June

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30 Jun 1629 RELIGIOUS The settlers of Salem, Mass. appointed Samuel Skelton as their pastor, by ballot. Their church covenant, afterward composed by Skelton, established Salem as the first non-separating congregational Puritan Church in New England.
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30 Jun 1780 RELIGIOUS Benjamin Randall organized a fellowship of churches known as Free Will Baptists in New Hampshire. It became one of the early branches of the National Association of Free Will Baptists, which was formed in 1935.
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30 Jun 1909 RELIGIOUS In Rome, the Catholic Pontifical Biblical Commission issued a decree interpreting the first 11 chapters of Genesis as history, not myth.
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30 Jun 1911 WW2 Haiqi participated in the Spithead Naval Review off Gilkicker Point in southern England, United Kingdom. 
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30 Jun 1919 WW2 Bruce Fraser was promoted to the rank of commander. 
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30 Jun 1919 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at New York City, New York, United States. 
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30 Jun 1920 WW2 Henry Arnold reverted to his permanent rank of captain. 
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30 Jun 1921 WW2 USS R-1 arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, United States. 
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30 Jun 1921 WW2 USS R-5 arrived at San Pedro, California, United States. 
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30 Jun 1923 WW2 Henry Arnold's son John Arnold passed away from acute appendicitis. 
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30 Jun 1924 WW2 Jan Smuts stepped down as the Prime Minister of South Africa. 
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30 Jun 1926 WW2 Bruce Fraser was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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30 Jun 1931 WW2 Arthur Greiser joined the SS organization of the Nazi Party. 
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30 Jun 1932 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Honolulu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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30 Jun 1932 WW2 Maya was commissioned into service. 
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30 Jun 1932 WW2 USS R-5 was decommissioned from service at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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30 Jun 1934 WW2 "Night of the Long Knives" began a week of murder and political purging throughout Germany. 
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30 Jun 1934 WW2 Admiral Graf Spee was launched. 
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30 Jun 1934 WW2 Oranienburg Concentration Camp in Germany was transferred under the jurisdiction of the German justice department. 
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30 Jun 1934 WW2 Gregor Strasser was arrested at his home on the pretext that he was conspiring to overturn the state, and was shot by an SS captain a few hours later in a cell in the secret police headquarters in Berlin, Germany. 
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30 Jun 1935 WW2 Werner Mölders completed fighter pilot training at the flying school in Tutow, Germany and the Jagdfliegerschule in Schleißheim, Germany. 
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30 Jun 1935 WW2 The active duty strength of the US Marine Corps was reported to be 1,163 officers and 16,097 enlisted men for a total of 17,260. 
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30 Jun 1936 WW2 The active duty strength of the US Marine Corps was reported to be 1,208 officers and 16,040 enlisted men for a total of 17,248. 
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30 Jun 1937 WW2 The active duty strength of the United States Marine Corps was reported to be 1,312 officers and 16,911 enlisted men for a total of 18,223. 
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30 Jun 1938 WW2 The active duty strength of the US Marine Corps was reported to be 1,359 oficers and 16,97 enlisted men for the total of 18,365. 
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30 Jun 1938 WW2 USS Skipjack was commissioned into service, Lieutenant Herman Sall in command. 
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30 Jun 1938 WW2 Camicia Nera was commissioned into service. 
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30 Jun 1939 WW2 The active duty strength of the US Marine Corps was reported to be 1,380 officers and 16,052 enlisted men for a total of 19,432. 
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30 Jun 1939 WW2 The US 1st Marine Brigade was activated at Quantico, Virginia, United States, supported by the 1st Marine Aircraft Group. 
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30 Jun 1939 WW2 The 2nd Marine Brigade was activated at San Diego, California, United States, supported by the 2nd Marine Aircraft Group. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-65 and U-43 attacked Allied convoy SL-25 300 files west of Brest, France. At 2227 hours, U-43 sank British ship Avelona Star; 1 was killed and 84 were rescued. U-65 damaged British ship Clan Ogilvy, which would need to be towed away; she would remain out of commission until Oct 1940. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-47 sank Greek ship Georgios Kyriakides west of Ireland; all 30 crew members survived. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 As of this date, the US Navy reported the strength of 1,099 vessels and 203,127 personnel (160,997 Navy, 28,384 Marine Corps, and 13,766 Coast Guard). In a separate report, the US Marine Corps reported the active duty strength to be 1,732 officers and 26,545 enlisted men for the total of 28,277. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 Heavy cruiser USS Wichita, with Commander Cruiser Division Seven Rear Admiral Andrew C. Pickens aboard, arrived at Montevideo, Uruguay, joining USS Quincy that was already there. The visit was "to furnish a reminder of the strength and the range of action of the armed forces of the United States". 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 Alfred Jodl noted in his diary that the United Kingdom was certain to fall in time, regardless of the fact whether an actual invasion was necessary. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 German submarine U-26 sank Estonian ship Merkur (killing 4) and Norwegian ship Belmoira (all 25 crew members survived) off of France. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 Three German personnel landed on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel by aircraft and demanded surrender from a local policeman. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 A German reconnaissance aircraft landed on Guernsey in the Channel Islands and unofficially received the surrender of the islanders. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 Submarine S-7 was commissioned into service. 
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30 Jun 1940 WW2 US President Franklin Roosevelt returned to Washington DC, United States after touring the Potomac River aboard the presidential yacht Potomac. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 Vichy France broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 Werner Mölders shot down three Soviet bombers, bringing his total score to 82 victories and surpassing the record set by Manfred von Richthofen, "Red Baron", during WW1. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 The active duty strength of the US Marine Corps was reported to be 3,339 officers and 51,020 enlisted men for the total of 54,359. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 The Netherlands Purchasing Commission placed an order with North American Aviation to purchase 162 B-25C bombers for the Dutch government-in-exile. These aircraft were intended for the Dutch East Indies to counter the growing Japanese threat. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 The Handley Page Halifax bomber made its first daylight operation during a raid on Kiel, Germany but it did not take long to discover that its defensive armament was inadequate for daylight use and by the end of the year Halifax bombers were only used on night raids. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 At least 100 of the Soviet bombers attacking German tanks near Minsk, Byelorussia were shot down by aircraft of Oberst Werner Mölders' JG-51. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 Scirè launched manned torpedoes into Grand Harbour, Malta; they failed to damage any enemy vessels. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld's Bf 110 aircraft collided with another Bf 110, piloted by Rudolf Schoenert while in exercise over northern Netherlands. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 The Soviet Union formed the State Defense Committee (GKO) to coordinate defense efforts; it was consisted of Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Georgy Malenkov, and Lavrentiy Beria. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 German troops captured Lvov, Ukraine. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, United States. 
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30 Jun 1941 WW2 USS Grayback was commissioned into service with Lieutenant Willard Saunders in command. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 A US Navy PBM Mariner aircraft sank German submarine U-158 70 kilometers west of Bermuda, killing all 54 aboard. 550 miles west of Ireland, German submarine U-458 sank Norwegian merchant ship Morsfruit; all 36 aboard survived. 650 miles northeast of the island of Saint Martin, Italian submarine Morosini sank Dutch merchant ship Tysa; all aboard survived. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 German government decreed that no foreign workers was to receive higher wages or enjoy better working conditions than the poorest German workers. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 Axis troops reached El Alamein, Egypt. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 Commander Kinzo Tonozuka became the commanding officer of I-168. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 In Egypt, Allied defenses east of Mersa Matruh fell back to El Alamein. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 Submarine Tunny was launched, sponsored by Mrs. Frederick G. Crisp. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 The United States Marine Corps reported an active duty strength of 7,138 officers and 135,475 enlisted men for a total of 142,413 personnel. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Sturgeon detected Japanese passenger ship Montevideo Maru off northern Philippine Islands and began to give chase. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 The Soviet 40th Army was trapped by German 4th Panzer Army and German 6th Army in southern Russia. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 USS Plunger sank Japanese ship Unkai Maru No. 5 70 miles southeast of Shanghai, China. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-10 sank US ship Express in the Mozambique Channel, killing 13. In the same area, I-20 sank British tanker Steaua Romana. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 German submarine U-372 sank British submarine depot ship HMS Medway 62 miles northwest of Alexandria, Egypt at 0824 hours; 30 were killed, 1,105 survived. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 All Jewish schools in Germany were forced to close. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 Georg von Küchler was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 Brigadier General Frederick McCabe arrived at Ramgarh Training Center, India. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Yokohama, Japan. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 Auschwitz Concentration Camp's Bunker II, the second gas chamber, became operational. 
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30 Jun 1942 WW2 At a meeting headed by Ernest King and George Marshall, US military leadership finally settled their inter-service rivalry by moving the boundary of SOWESPAC (South West Pacific Command) and SOPAC (South Pacific Command) by 1 degree, or 60 miles, in order to facilitate the planned assault on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 The German Nazi organization Gestapo was given the right to decide for itself whether a criminal or political case should go to trial or proceed directly to confinement, although by this stage such legal niceties were rather irrelevant in the face of the unlimited power already enjoyed by the State Security Services. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 USS Scorpion arrived in the Yellow Sea off Shantung Peninsula, China. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 The United States Marine Corps reported the active duty strength of 21,384 officers and 287,139 enlisted, for a total of 308,523 personnel. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 The German army authorised the issue of the 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42 rocket launcher. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 Senior Flight Petty Officer Shigetoshi Kudo shot down B-17F bomber "Pluto" over Rabaul, New Britain. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 In Operation Chronicle, US Army troops and the US Navy 12th Defense Battalion secured Woodlark Island of the Trobriand Islands, while other troops landed on Woodlark Island to the west. Meanwhile, the 1st Battalion of the US Army 162nd Infantry Regiment, supported by other US and Australian units, landed at Nassau Bay, Australian Papua. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 US occupation troops arrived early at Nono, New Georgia, Solomon Islands and would join the US Marine Corps 4th Raider Battalion on the planned attack on Viru Harbor; nearby on the island of Vangunu, Companies N and Q of the US Marine Corps 4th Raider Battalion and 2nd Battalion of US Army 103rd Infantry Regiment landed unopposed near Oloana Bay; they would capture Wickham Anchorage by the end of the day. On Rendova Island, elements of the US Army 172nd Infantry Regiment, US Army 103nd Infantry Regiment, US Navy 24th Naval Construction Battalion, and US Navy 9th Defense Battalion landed against light resistance; Japanese aircraft attempted to disrupt landing operations, but they were intercepted by aircraft of US Marine Fighter Squadrons 121, 122, 213, and 221. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze departed Truk, Caroline Islands to escort cruiser Chokai to Shortland Islands, Solomon Islands. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing destroyer Kawakaze at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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30 Jun 1943 WW2 USS S-35 set sail toward the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Tang sank the unescorted Japanese transport Nikkin Maru with one torpedo between Kyushu, Japan and Dalian, China. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 Milice leader in French city of Lyon, Paul Touvier, selected 7 Jewish prisoners to be executed by firing squad as reprisal for the killing of Minister of Information and local Milice leader Phillipe Henriot two days earlier by the French resistance. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 The final 6,000 German troops in Cherbourg, France surrendered. At Caen, German troops recaptured Hill 112. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 The Chindits, by this date, would have been hard pushed to find anyone still fit enough to lift a camera, but they kept on marching and fighting even when one brigade, the 111th, was reduced to less than the strength of a company. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 James Johnson shot down a German Bf 109 fighter, his 33th victory. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Permit departed Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, starting her thirteenth war patrol. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Wasp departed Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 A transport of 2,044 Jews from Athens and Corfu Island in Greece arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland; 455 men and 175 women were registered into the camp while the remainder were gassed. On the same day, another transport of 1,000 Jews from the Fossoli di Carpi transit camp in Italy also arrived; 180 men and 51 women were registered while the remainder were gassed. 
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30 Jun 1944 WW2 USS Ticonderoga arrived at Port of Spain, Trinidad. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Commander H. H. Hale relieved Captain L. E. Gehres as the commanding officer of USS Franklin. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank a Japanese freighter at 0600 hours; the Japanese survivors refused to be picked up, thus were left to die. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Japanese troops in Burma massacred 600 natives in the village of Kalagon, who had been accused of helping British paratroopers and guerrillas. The bodies were thrown down deep wells and when these filled up, the soldiers pounded the corpses with staves to make them fit better. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 The US Navy reported that it had in its possession 67,952 vessels and had a personnel strength of 3,383,196. The US Marine Corps reported a personnel strength of 476,709. The US Coast Guard reported a personnel strength of 171,192. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Nautilus was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Baya attacked small coastal vessels with her deck gun off Borneo in the Sulu Sea. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Six of the ten sections of USS ABSD-1 began to be towed from Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 Ilse Koch was arrested by US authorities. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Saint Paul completed training operations in waters off Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Whale set sail for Guam, Mariana Islands. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 USS Capitaine attacked five small Japanese craft with her deck gun in the Java Sea, sinking Bandai Maru. 
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30 Jun 1945 WW2 The Kinkaseki Prisoners of War Camp in northern Taiwan was closed. 
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30 Jun 1946 WW2 Henry Arnold retired from active military service. 
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30 Jun 1947 WW2 Laffey (Allen M. Sumner-class) was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Jun 1947 WW2 Chinese Nationalist forces lifted the siege of Siping, Liaobei Province, China. 
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30 Jun 1947 WW2 USS Miami was decommissioned from service. 
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30 Jun 1949 WW2 Prince Morihiro's son Hidehiko was born. 
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30 Jun 1973 RELIGIOUS In Korea, the Far Eastern Broadcasting Co. began transmitting the Gospel from HLAZ, its first radio station in this country. FBEC is active today through radio missions outreach, and focuses its work among the islands of Eastern Asia and the Pacific.
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30 Jun 1974 RELIGIOUS Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr., and a church deacon were slain by a crazed gunman in Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her son, the assassinated civil rights leader, once preached.
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