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May 30
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'''May 30''' is the 150th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar (151st in
leap years). There are 215 days remaining.
Events
*
1416 - The
Roman Catholic Church burns
Jerome of Prague as a heretic.
*
1431 - In
Rouen,
France, 19-year-old
Joan of Arc is
Execution by burning burned at the stake. May 30 is now her feast day as a
saint of the
Roman Catholic Church.
*
1434 -
Taborite forces led by
Prokop the Great were defeated and almost annihilated in the
Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the
Hussite Wars.
*
1536 - King
Henry VIII of England marries
Jane Seymour, a
lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
*
1539 - In
Florida,
Hernando de Soto (explorer) Hernando de Soto lands at
Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding
gold.
*
1574 -
Henry III of France Henry III becomes King of
France.
*
1588 - The last ship of the
Spanish Armada sets sail from
Lisbon heading for the
English Channel.
*
1635 -
Peace of Prague (
30 Years War)
*
1806 -
Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
*
1814 - The
Treaty of Paris (1814) First Treaty of Paris is signed returning
France French borders to their
1792 extent.
Napoleon I of France is exiled to
Elba on the same day.
*
1854 - The
Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the
Political divisions of the United States US territories of
Nebraska and
Kansas.
*
1868 -
Memorial Day (then known as "Decoration Day") is observed in the
United States for the first time (it was proclaimed on
May 5 by General
John Logan).
*
1871 - The
Paris Commune falls.
*
1876 -
Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew
Murat V.
*
1879 -
New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed
Madison Square Garden by
William Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
*1879 - An
Fujita scale F4 tornado struck Irving,
Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
*
1883 - In
New York City, a rumor that the
Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.
*
1911 - At the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first
Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race in his ''Marmon Wasp''.
*
1913 -
First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in
London ending the war.
Albania becomes an independent nation.
*
1922 - In
Washington, D.C., the
Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
*
1935 -
Babe Ruth plays in his last
baseball game, in the uniform of the
Atlanta Braves Boston Braves.
*
1941 -
World War II:
Germany captures
Crete.
*
1942 - World War II: 1000
United Kingdom British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on
Cologne,
Germany.
*
1948 - A dike along the flooding
Columbia River breaks, obliterating
Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
*
1958 - The bodies of several unidentified soldiers killed in action during
World War II and the
Korean War are buried at the
Tomb of the Unknowns in
Arlington National Cemetery.
*
1967 - At the Ascot Speedway in
Gardena, California, daredevil
Evel Knievel jumps his
motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row.
*1967 - The
Nigerian state of
Biafra secedes, sparking a
civil war.
*
1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of
Curaçao
*
1971 -
Mariner program:
Mariner 9 is launched toward
Mars (planet) Mars.
*
1972 -
The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout
United Kingdom Britain.
*1972 - In
Tel Aviv, members of the
Japanese Red Army carry out the
Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
*
1975 -
Bob Watson scored the 1,000,000th run in baseball history. Because there were other players in other venues competing simultaneously for the right to be designated with the milestone, Watson had to run around the bases after a home run at full speed so as to ensure that he would be the one credited with scoring the historic run.
*
1976 -
Johnny Rutherford wins a rain-shortened 60th
Indianapolis 500 at the 102 lap (255 mile) mark, the shortest race in event history.
*
1982 -
Baseball player
Cal Ripken, Jr plays the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak will end on
September 20,
1998.
*1982 -
Spain becomes the 16th member of
NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since
West Germany's admission in
1955.
*
1989 -
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "
Goddess of Democracy"
statue is unveiled in
Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
*
1998 - A 6.6 magnitude
earthquake hits northern
Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
*1998-
Ginger Spice leaves the
Spice Girls.
*
2003 - The final flight of an
Air France Concorde takes place.
Births
*
1010 -
Emperor Renzong (Song Dynasty) Emperor Renzong of China (d.
1063)
*
1423 -
Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d.
1461)
*
1623 -
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d.
1686)
*
1672 (O.S.) -
Peter I of Russia Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d.
1725)
*
1718 -
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d.
1793)
*
1719 -
Roger Newdigate, English politician (d.
1806)
*
1814 -
Mikhail Bakunin Michael Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d.
1876)
*1814 -
Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d.
1894)
*
1858 -
Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d.
1941)
*
1879 -
Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d.
1917)
*
1882 -
Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d.
1915)
*
1895 -
Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d.
1956)
*
1896 -
Howard Hawks, American film director (d.
1977)
*
1899 -
Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d.
1936)
*
1901 -
Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d.
1979)
*
1902 -
Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d.
1985)
*
1908 -
Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1995)
*1908 -
Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d.
1989)
*1908 -
Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (d.
1995)
*
1909 -
Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d.
1986)
*
1910 -
Inge Meysel, German actress (d.
2004)
*
1912 -
Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2004)
*1912 -
Erich Bagge, German physicist
*1912 -
Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d.
1980)
*
1918 -
Guadalupe Amor Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d.
2000)
*
1920 -
Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d.
1978)
*1920 -
Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d.
1989)
*
1922 -
Hal Clement, American writer (d.
2003)
*
1926 -
Christine Jorgensen, activist (d.
1989)
*
1927 -
Clint Walker, American actor
*
1934 -
Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut
*
1936 -
Keir Dullea, American actor
*
1939 -
Michael J. Pollard, American actor
*
1943 -
James Chaney, American civil rights activist [d.
1964]
*1943 -
Gale Sayers, American football player
*
1947 -
Vashti Murphy McKenzie, one of the first female bishops
*
1951 -
Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
*1951 -
Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian singer
*
1953 -
Colm Meaney, Irish actor
*
1955 -
Topper Headon, British musician (
The Clash)
*
1964 -
Wynonna Judd, American singer
*1964 -
Tom Morello, American musician (
Audioslave,
Rage Against The Machine)
*
1966 -
Stephen Malkmus, American musician (
Pavement)
*
1972 -
Manny Ramirez, Dominican-born
Major League Baseball player
*
1973 -
Leigh Francis, British comedian
*
1980 -
Steven Gerrard, English footballer
*
1981 -
Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
Deaths
*
1159 -
Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b.
1105)
*
1252 - King
Ferdinand III of Castile
*
1416 -
Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b.
1379)
*
1431 -
Joan of Arc, French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b.
1412)
*
1434 -
Prokop the Great,
Hussite general
*
1574 - King
Charles IX of France (b.
1550)
*
1576 -
Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
*
1593 -
Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b.
1564)
*
1640 -
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b.
1577)
*
1696 -
Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b.
1638)
*
1718 -
Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of
William III of England (b.
1670)
*
1730 -
Arabella Churchill (royal mistress) Arabella Churchill, English mistress of
James II of England (b.
1648)
*
1744 -
Alexander Pope, English writer (b.
1688)
*
1770 -
François Boucher, French painter (b.
1703)
*
1778 -
Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b.
1694)
*
1865 -
John Catron, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
*
1868 -
Souji Okita,
Shinsengumi Captain (b.
1844)
*
1901 -
Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b.
1841)
*
1925 -
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b.
1876)
*
1926 -
Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b.
1864)
*
1934 -
Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b.
1848)
*
1941 -
Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b.
1893)
*
1951 -
Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b.
1886)
*
1953 -
Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b.
1886)
*
1960 -
Boris Pasternak, Russian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b.
1890)
*
1961 -
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b.
1891)
*
1964 -
Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (b.
1898)
*
1967 -
Claude Rains, English actor (b.
1889)
*
1971 -
Marcel Dupré, French composer (b.
1886)
*
1975 -
Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b.
1951)
*
1980 -
Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b.
1942)
*
1986 -
Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b.
1940)
*
1993 -
Sun Ra, American musician (b.
1914)
*
2000 -
Tex Beneke, American bandleader, singer, and saxophone player (b.
1914)
*
2003 -
Mickie Most, English musician (b.
1938)
*
2005 -
Tomasz Pacynski Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b.
1958)
Holidays and observances
*
Peru – National Potato Day [http://www.cipotato.org/news_more.asp?cod=11&lang=eng]
*
United States –
Memorial Day (originally – currently last Monday in May)
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
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May 29 -
May 31 -
April 30 -
June 30 -
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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