May 30
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May 30 is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining until the end of the year.
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[edit] Events
- 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
- 1431 - Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
- 1434 - Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany - Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilated Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
- 1536 - King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
- 1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
- 1574 - Henry III becomes King of France.
- 1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
- 1635 - Thirty Years' War: Peace of Prague (1635) signed.
- 1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
- 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - Treaty of Paris (1814) signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
- 1832 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is first opened.
- 1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
- 1868 - Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclaimation on May 5).
- 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 Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
- 1879 - An F4 tornado strikes 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: Treaty of London, 1913 signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
- 1914 - New & then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- 1917 - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
- 1922 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
- 1935 - Babe Ruth plays in his last baseball game, in the uniform of the Boston Braves.
- 1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.
- 1941 - World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the athenian Acropolis, tear down the nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
- 1942 - World War II: 1000 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.
- 1953 - The Auckland Harbour Bridge was officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 1956 - Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen premieres his piece Gesang der Jünglinge in Cologne.
- 1958 - Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1966 - Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
- 1967 - At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row.
- 1967 - The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
- 1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
- 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 launched to Map 70% of the surface and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface of Mars.
- 1972 - The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
- 1972 - In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
- 1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
- 1982 - Cal Ripken begins his streak of 2,130 baseball games. It ends September 6, 1995.
- 1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
- 1998 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
[edit] Births
- 1010 - 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)
- 1653 - Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
- 1672 (O.S.) - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725)
- 1713 - Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
- 1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
- 1719 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
- 1757 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
- 1814 - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
- 1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
- 1819 - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
- 1820 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
- 1845 - King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
- 1846 - Carl Faberge, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
- 1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
- 1875 - Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
- 1878 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (d. 1933)
- 1879 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
- 1881 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
- 1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
- 1886 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
- 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)
- 1903 - Countee Cullen, American writer (d. 1946)
- 1906 - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
- 1907 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot
- 1908 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
- 1909 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
- 1910 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
- 1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
- 1912 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1912 - Erich Bagge, German physicist
- 1912 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
- 1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
- 1918 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
- 1919 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
- 1920 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
- 1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1926 - Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)
- 1927 - Clint Walker, American actor
- 1928 - Agnès Varda, French director
- 1928 - Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
- 1930 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Robert Ryman, American painter
- 1932 - Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist
- 1934 - Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut
- 1934 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach
- 1936 - Keir Dullea, American actor
- 1939 - Michael J. Pollard, American actor
- 1939 - Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
- 1940 - Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1943 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
- 1943 - Gale Sayers, American football player
- 1944 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
- 1945 - Norman Eshley, English actor
- 1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian LPGA golfer
- 1948 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
- 1949 - P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
- 1950 - Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
- 1950 - Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
- 1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
- 1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian singer
- 1953 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor
- 1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)
- 1956 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (d. 2005)
- 1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)
- 1958 - Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-New York)
- 1959 - Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
- 1961 - Harry Enfield, British comedian
- 1962 - Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator
- 1962 - Tonya Pinkins, American actress
- 1964 - Wynonna Judd, American Country/Bluegrass Singer
- 1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
- 1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
- 1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
- 1967 - Tim Burgess, English singer (The Charlatans)
- 1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
- 1970 - Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress
- 1970 - Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
- 1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
- 1972 - Manny Ramírez, Dominican-born American baseball player
- 1972 - Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
- 1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
- 1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician
- 1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
- 1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer
- 1974 - Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
- 1974 - David Wilkie, American ice hockey player
- 1975 - Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
- 1976 - Radoslav Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player
- 1976 - Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
- 1977 - Akwá, Angolan footballer
- 1977 - Rachael Stirling, British actress
- 1979 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
- 1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer
- 1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
- 1981 - Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver
- 1981 - Blake Bashoff, American actor
- 1982 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
- 1984 - Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
- 1990 - Dean Collins (actor), American Actor
[edit] 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 heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412)
- 1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general
- 1469 - Lope de Barrientos —a powerful bishop in Castile
- 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, 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, United States Supreme Court Justice
- 1868 - Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823
- 1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
- 1912 - Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)
- 1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
- 1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
- 1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
- 1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
- 1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
- 1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
- 1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
- 1951 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
- 1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
- 1955 - Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1918)
- 1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, 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)
- 1964 - Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald, American auto racers, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1927)
- 1967 - Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
- 1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
- 1975 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
- 1975 - Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
- 1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
- 1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
- 1981 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
- 1986 - Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
- 1993 - Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
- 1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- 1994 - Marcel Bich, French industrialist (Société Bic) (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Ted Drake, former English footballer (b. 1912)
- 1995 - Bobby Stokes, former English footballer (b. 1951)
- 2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader, singer, and saxophone player (b. 1914)
- 2000 - Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
- 2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
- 2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
- 2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
- 2006 - Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
- 2006 - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
- 2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor, director, screenwriter and author (b. 1933)
[edit] Holidays and observances
- Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day (National Holiday).
- Peru – National Potato Day.
- United States – Memorial Day (originally – currently last Monday in May).
- Canary Islands – Canary Islands' Day
[edit] Liturgical feasts
- Saint Ferdinand III
- Saint Gabinus
- Saint Isaac of Dalmatia
- Saint Joan of Arc
- Saint Reinhilde
[edit] External links
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