Today
Tuesday June 30 2026
- Day of the year
- 181/ 365
- Week
- 272,026
- Days left
- 18450%
- Moon
- 100%Full moon
Today is Tuesday, June 30, 2026. It is day 181 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 184 remain, and 50% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 27.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- July 11World Population Day
- July 18Nelson Mandela International Day
- July 30World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Bartholomew the ApostleChristian apostle and martyr
- Andrey BogolyubskyRussian Grand Prince
- Tiridates III of ArmeniaKing of Armenia and Saint
- Otto of Bamberg12th‑century German bishop and missionary, Catholic saint, mediator during the Investiture Controversy and known as the ‘Apostle of Pomerania‘
- Fritz GerlichGerman historian and journalist (1883–1934)
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 05:28
- Sunset
- 20:31
- Length of day
- 15h 3m−1 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:00
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Summer
began on June 21, 2026
Next season
Autumn — 84 days, September 22, 2026 (September equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Independence Day — July 3, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Full moon
Illumination : 100%
Moon age : 15.5 days
- Next full moon
- July 29, 2026
- Next new moon
- July 14, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Cancer
until July 23, 2026 — Leo
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1422
Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons. Wikipedia
1521
Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. Wikipedia
1559
King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery. Wikipedia
1882
Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. Wikipedia
1905
Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik. Wikipedia
1908
The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia. Wikipedia
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1934
The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. Wikipedia
1956
A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners. Wikipedia
1971
The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. Wikipedia
2009
Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day June 30
- 1470Charles VIII of France (died 1498)
- 1685John Gay, English poet and playwright (died 1732)
- 1884Georges Duhamel, French author and critic (died 1966)
- 1893Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician, chief decision maker and head of state of the GDR (East Germany) (died 1973)
- 1906Anthony Mann, American actor and director (died 1967)
- 1909Juan Bosch, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (died 2001)
- 1911Czesław Miłosz, Polish novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
- 1917Susan Hayward, American actress (died 1975)
Died on this day June 30
- 1785James Oglethorpe, English general and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Georgia (born 1696)aged 89 years
- 1919John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)aged 77 years
- 1934Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (born 1882)aged 52 years
- 1934Gustav Ritter von Kahr, German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (born 1862)aged 72 years
- 1934Gregor Strasser, German lieutenant, politician, and early leader of the Nazi Party (born 1892)aged 42 years
- 1961Lee de Forest, American inventor, invented the audion tube (born 1873)aged 88 years
- 1971Georgy Dobrovolsky Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (born 1928)aged 43 years
- 2012Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1915)aged 97 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 05:28 and sets at 20:31, giving 15h 3m of daylight — 1 minute less than yesterday. It has been summer since June 21, 2026; autumn opens in 84 days, on September 22, 2026 (September equinox).
The moon is full, 100% illuminated. The next full moon falls on July 29, 2026 and the next new moon on July 14, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches June 30 to Bartholomew the Apostle, Andrey Bogolyubsky and Tiridates III of Armenia.
No United Nations international day falls on June 30. The next one on the calendar is World Population Day, on July 11.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons (1422); Spanish forces defeat a combined French and Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre (1521). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Charles VIII of France was born on June 30, 1470; James Oglethorpe died on June 30, 1785.
178 days remain until Christmas and 185 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — June 30 falls under the sign of Cancer.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 50%
- of the year elapsed
- 178
- until Christmas
- 185
- until New Year
- 609
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26