Today in History - History - June 30th

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

1968Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open

199137th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon

1950US Gen MacArthur visits front in South Korea/asks for US troops

1520Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés take gold from Aztecs

1956Lenin's politics testament (1923) published in Moscow

1943Gen MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel (island-hopping)

1559King Henry II of France is seriously injured in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.

1966"Iron" Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)

1975Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1)

1985Michael Phelps, Baltimore, Maryland, American swimmer (16 Olympic medals)

1901Willie Sutton, Brooklyn New York, American bank robber

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

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

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