THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today is Sunday, June 30, the 181st day of 2019. There are 184 days left in the year.

IN THE NATION

1865: Eight people, including Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd, were convicted by a military commission of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. (Four defendants, including Surratt, were executed; Mudd was sentenced to life in prison but was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869.)

2013: Nineteen elite firefighters known as members of the Granite Mountain Hot Shots were killed battling a wildfire northwest of Phoenix.

IN THE WORLD

1934: Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what became known as “The Night of the Long Knives.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Actress Nancy Dussault is 83. Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is 68. Former boxer Mike Tyson is 53. Olympic gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps is 34.