Other Notable Events, June 30

In 1986, Hugh Hefner, calling his Playboy Bunny a symbol of the past, closed Playboy Clubs in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.

In 1992, Fidel Ramos was inaugurated as the eighth Philippine president in the first peaceful transfer of power in a generation.

In 1998, a casualty of the Vietnam War buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington, Va., was identified as Air Force Lt. Michael Blassie of St. Louis.

In 2004, the Cassini spacecraft, in space on a U.S.-European mission, became the first device to orbit the planet Saturn.

In 2005, Israel declared the Gaza Strip a closed military zone. All Israelis, except for residents, service providers and reporters, were barred from entering.

In 2006, a U.S.-Canadian investigation grounded a group accused of using helicopters and planes to ferry drugs from British Columbia across the border. Agents reported arresting 46 people and seizing 4 tons of marijuana, 800 pounds of cocaine, aircraft and $1.5 million in cash.

In 2009, the U.S. military completed its withdrawal from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities and towns as planned. Nearly 130,000 American troops remained on duty at forward-operating bases.

Also in 2009, Yemenia Airways Flight IY626, which had taken off from Sanaa, Yemen, crashed into the Indian Ocean while trying to land at Moroni, the capital of Comoros, killing 152 of 153 people aboard. The lone survivor was a 14-year-old girl.

In 2011, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Gen. David Petraeus as director of the CIA.

In 2012, members of the Ansar Dine Islamic rebel group, wielding shovels and pickaxes, damaged historic shrines of Muslim saints in Timbuktu, Mali, considering them idolatrous.