On This Day:
Monday June 30, 2014 This is the 181st day of the year, with 184 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Häagen-Dazs Häagen-Dazs, the premium ice cream brand, became a registered company in 1961. Why the Scandinavian-sounding name Häagen-Dazs was chosen remains a mystery. It is not a real word, but was made up by Ruben Mattus, who founded the company. However, the name does convey an aura of old-world tradition and craftsmanship. The first three flavors of Häagen-Dazs - vanilla, chocolate, and coffee - were introduced in 1961 in New York delis. Vanilla is the most popular Häagen-Dazs flavor in the United States.
Holidays Congo: Independence Day.
Guatemala: Armed Forces Day.
Sudan: Salvation Revolution Day.
Feast day of St. Theobald of Provins, the Martyrs of Rome, St. Emma, St. Bertrand of Le Mans, St. Erentrude, and St. Martial of Limoges.
Events 1520 - Montezuma II was murdered as Spanish conquistadors fled the Aztec capital of Tenochtilan during the night.
1572 - Great Britain passed a Poor Law, giving assistance to the poor who were unemployed or vagrant.
1859 - A French acrobat known professionally as Émile Blondin (Jean-François Gravelet) became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1864 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Land Grant.
1870 - Ada Kepley became the first female law school graduate.
1906 - The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act each became law.
1908 - One of the most powerful, natural explosions in recorded history occurred, in Central Siberia, devastating 70 miles in diameter.
1921 - President Warren Harding appointed former President Howard Taft to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1921 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was incorporated.
1934 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered a purge ("Night of the Long Knives") of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future.
1936 - "Gone With the Wind" was published.
1952 - "Guiding Light" premiered as a television soap opera.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded in Washington, D.C.
1971 - Three Soviet cosmonauts who served as the first crew of the world's first space station died when their spacecraft depressurized during reentry.
1982 - The Equal Rights Amendment (passed by Congress in 1972), prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, failed to secure ratification by a sufficient number of states to ensure its inclusion in the Constitution of the United States of America.
2002 - Brazil wins its fifth FIFA World Cup title.
Births 1934 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician.
1957 - Sterling Marlin, American race car driver.
1960 - Murray Cook, Australian vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist.
1966 - Mike Tyson, former American World Heavyweight boxing Champion.
1975 - Ralf Schumacher, German Formula One race car driver.
Deaths 1971 - The crew of the Soyuz 11: Viktor Patsayev, Georgi Dobrovolski, and Vladislav Volkov.
1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright.
2003 - Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker), American comedian and actor.
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