1906US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular)
1992South African ANC President Nelson Mandela meets with UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar
1914Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1831Soldier and Future Confederate General Robert E. Lee (24) marries Mary Curtis (22) at Arlington House, Arlington Virginia
2012Actor Alec Baldwin (54) weds Hilaria Thomas at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City
1973Prime Minister of Canada Joe Clark (34) weds lawyer Maureen McTeer (21)
2008Singer-actress Olivia Newton-John (59) weds natural-health businessman John Easterling (56) in Florida's Jupiter Island
June 30th Weddings
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Notable Divorces on June 30th
1992Actress Natasha Richardson (29) divorces producer Robert Fox (39) after a year of marriage
2006American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (25) divorces 98 Degrees boy band singer Nick Lachey (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
June 30th Divorces
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Notable Deaths on June 30th
1919John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 76
1520Moctezuma II, Aztec emperor (1502-20), killed either by the Spanish or stoned by his own people