JUNE 30
1997:J.K. Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom. Fourteen years later, Philosopher's Stone (retitled the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) and six subsequent novels about the world's most famous boy wizard have sold roughly 450 million copies.
1859: French daredevil Charles Blondin, born Jean-François Gravelet, crosses Niagara Falls by tightrope for the first time, bravely walking across the falls over 160 feet in the air. Blondin will outdo himself in subsequent crossings, in which he will cook an omelet, carry his manager on his back and push a wheelbarrow.
1905: Twenty-six year old Albert Einstein introduces his theory of special relativity with the publication of On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, written while Einstein was working as a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland.
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