Local history

50 years ago: June 30, 1976

Andrea Lee Hollen of Altoona was to be one of the first class of 100 women who will attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point that year. She eventually planned to enter the field of medicine.

25 years ago: June 30, 2001

PA Gov. Tom Ridge signed a law that required all-terrain vehicles to have insurance, license plate registration and titles and that exempted ATVs that only traveled on farms. Local ATV dealers like Saylor Honda said the bill would only require ATV owners to have to spend more money.

10 years ago: June 30, 2016

Integrity Construction of Greenwood donated more than 130 windows and doors to the local Habitat for Humanity, Jason Jones and Bob Dashem members, delivered by Integrity workers Cliff Ream and Joe Petite.

— Compiled by Tim Doyle

World history

Today is Tuesday, June 30, the 181st day of 2026. There are 184 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history:

On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as the “Night of the Long Knives.”

On this date:

– In 1918, labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Sedition Act of 1917 for a speech in which he denounced U.S. involvement in World War I. (Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison and disenfranchised for life; President Warren G. Harding commuted Debs’ sentence to time served in 1921.)

– In 1921, President Warren G. Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding the late Edward Douglass White.

– In 1936, Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone With the Wind” was released.

– In 1958, the U.S. Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill.

– In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the government could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers.

– The Associated Press