1934: GERMANY: The Night of the Long Knives. Hitler uses Nazi Party and German police to arrest and execute the leaders of the "Brownshirt" SA, including Ernst Roehm, and others not connected with the SA, but against whom the Nazi leaders have a score to settle. These others include General von Schleicher, the former Chancellor.
This action settles the question of the NAZI Party being Nationalist or Socialist. This political decision by Hitler places the party squarely in the Nationalist camp. It is also his part in "deal" to obtain the support of the Army officer corps. (Gene Hanson and John Nicholas)
June 30th, 1939 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Minesweeping trawler HMS Buttermere launched.
GERMANY: Usedom Island. With Flugkapitän Erich Warsitz at the control, the Heinkel He 176 aircraft, the first to be powered by rocket (Walter RI), makes a 50 second flight. (21)