About the day » Saturday June 30, 1979Calender converter

• Antonius Markus Thomas Ermes, 's Gravenhage († 1980)
• Jessica Kleine, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Ilse Ingrid Nieuwold

• Bernardus HOLLING (53), Amsterdam
• Bart Van Tuil (17), Hobart, Tasmanie
• Afke Jellema (30), Den Helder
• Buford Elias Gier (81), Honolulu, O'ahu Is., Honolulu Co., HI
• Aldert Haasnoot (67), Katwijk
• Adriaan Pieter Stoutjesdijk (76), Utrecht
• Anthonie Berthus van Neerbos (78), Kesteren
• "Jacqueline" Jeanne Anne Marie de Tricornot (65), Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
• Adelaide Meissner (81), Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
• Bernard Gustaaf Prins (83), Tilburg

• 1978 » Ben Cousins, Australian footballer
• 1978 » Claudio Rivalta, Italian footballer
• 1978 » Patrick Ivuti, Kenyan runner
• 1979 » Sylvain Chavanel, French cyclist
• 1980 » Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
• 1980 » Ryan ten Doeschate, Dutch cricketer
• 1980 » Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian footballer
• 1981 » Barbora Špotáková, Czech javelin thrower
• 1981 » Can Artam, Turkish race car driver
• 1981 » Matt Kirk, Canadian football player

• 1971 » Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
• 1971 » Georgy Dobrovolsky Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (b. 1928)
• 1971 » Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1971 » Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1938)
• 1973 » Nancy Mitford, English journalist and author (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Alberta Williams King, Civil rights activist (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1898)
• 1984 » Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Richard
11. Michael
12. Pieter
13. Paul
14. Erik
15. Gerrit
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Wendy
3. Marieke
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Sandra
7. Johanna
8. Linda
9. Vanessa
10. Judith
11. Monique
12. Esther
13. Jessica
14. Patricia
15. Jennifer
16. Petra

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• February 26 » The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
• March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• March 28 » A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
• May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
• November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
• December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

The temperature on June 30, 1979 was between 10.0 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.