June 30th facts

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Ted Cruz wrote a book titles A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America, on June 30th, 2015. It became a bestseller.

Hurricane season runs from June 1st to November 30th, and Florida is the most hurricane-prone state.

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1. The Atlantic Ocean's hurricane season starts June 1st and ends on November 30th.

2. In the United States, Southwest Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are all part of a monsoon season from June 15th to September 30th each year.

3. The Second Continental Congress met at a variety of locations during its existence. It met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from May 10th, 1775 to December 12th, 1776. It met in Baltimore, Maryland from December 20th, 1776 to March 4th, 1777. It met in Philadelphia from March 5th, 1777 to September 18th, 1777. It met in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on one day only on September 27th, 1777. It met in York, Pennsylvania from September 30th, 1777 to June 27th, 1778. It met in Philadelphia from July 2nd, 1778 until March 1st, 1781.

4. Other donut day holidays include International Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day on June 8th, Buy a Doughnut Day on October 30th, and National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day on September 14th.

5. Two teams in Alberta, Canada played softball for 115 hours and 3 minutes straight. The game started on June 30th, 2009 and went on until July 5th, when the winning team walked away with a victory of 876-766

6. Dillinger made his final bank robbery on June 30th, 1934. The bank was Merchant's National Bank, located in South Bend, Indiana.

7. On June 30th, 1973, Alberta Williams King was gunned down while she played the organ for the “Lord’s Prayer” at Ebenezer Baptist Church. As a Christian civil rights activist, she was assassinated...just like her son, Martin Luther King, Jr. But most people remember only one

8. On June 30th 1959, Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, became the first man to walk across Niagra Falls on a tightrope (over 1,000 ft) Initially, wanted to carry someone on his back but no one volunteered.

9. There is no single hottest day of the year, that it varies by location due to many factors, and can range in the US from as early as June 1st to as late as September 30th.

10. The USA used to maintain a publicly available internet map of all ISP's per address. Shut down June 30th 2014

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Tuesday June 30th will have an extra second

We are getting an extra second today, June 30th. - source

On 30th June, 2015 at just before midnight in London, the world's atomic clocks will add one extra second, reading a time of 23:59:60 before ticking back to 00:00:00. It's a measure that's required to keep the ultra-precise devices attuned to the Earth's actual rotation. - source

On June 30th there will be a leap second, which will add an extra second to the day. A website was made where you can find ways to waste that second.

There are conflicting dates as to when "Friendship Day" is supposed to be celebrated: April 8th, June 30th, the first Saturday in July, July 20th, July 30th, and the first Sunday in August - source