Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long Knives”.
The original Pure Food and Drug Act (also known as the Wiley Act) was passed by Congress on June 30, 1906 and signed by President Theodore Roosevelt. It prohibited interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs under penalty of seizure of the questionable products and/or prosecution of the responsible parties.
The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth on this day in 1971. The three cosmonauts (below) were found dead inside.
Margaret Mitchell’s book, "Gone with the Wind," was published in this day in 1936. It was one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell(November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949)
From left: Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan.
On this day in 1994, the U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the 1994 national championship and banned her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne(June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010)
Twentieth-century African-American singer and actress Lena Horne sang "Stormy Weather," won a Grammy Award for a 1981 album entitled Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, and appeared in film versions of The Wiz, Broadway Rhythm, and Ziegfeld Follies.
After dropping out of high school at the age of sixteen, she performed in the chorus of Harlem’s famed Cotton Club.
Joseph Curtin and Alice Frost as Mr. and Mrs. North (1950)
Mr. and Mrs. North was a radio mystery series that aired on NBC and CBS from 1942 to 1954. The fictionalamateur detectives were created by Frances and Richard Lockridge. They were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series.