THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 30
June 30 in history
What happened on June 30: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1960 and 1966, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Independence of the Congo
30 Jun 1960 — Patrice Lumumba answers the Belgian king’s condescension with a searing indictment of eighty years of rule. Within a week the army mutinies and the state comes apart.
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— National Organization for Women
30 Jun 1966 — Angered that the conference of state commissions may not even pass a resolution urging the EEOC to enforce Title VII, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray and others found the National Organization for Women in a Washington hotel.
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