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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[change] Births
- 1010 – Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
- 1623 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
- 1672 – Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725) (June 9 in Gregorian calendar)
- 1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
- 1845 – Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
- 1846 – Peter Carl Faberge, Russian goldsmith and jeweller (d. 1920)
- 1879 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
- 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, Broadway producer, writer, director, and actress (d. 1979)
- 1902 – Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)
- 1907 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
- 1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize winner (d. 1995)
- 1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
- 1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinet player and bandleader (d. 1986)
- 1910 – Inge Meysel, German actress (b. 2004)
- 1910 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
- 1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist (d. 2004)
- 1912 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
- 1912 – Erich Bagge, German physicist
- 1919 – Rene Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
- 1920 – Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
- 1920 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Hal Clement, American science fiction writer (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)
- 1928 – Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
- 1934 – Aleksei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut and first person to walk in space
- 1939 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor
- 1943 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
- 1943 – Gale Sayers, American football player
- 1951 – Fernando Lugo, President of Paraguay
- 1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine)
- 1955 – Topper Headon, British musician, drummer with The Clash
- 1964 – Wynonna Judd, American country music singer
- 1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French terrorist
- 1972 – Manny Ramirez, Dominican Boston Red Sox baseball player
- 1973 – Keith Lemon, British comedian and actor
- 1974 – Cee-Lo Green, American musician
- 1976 – Magnus Norman, Swedish Tennis Player
- 1978 – Rachael Stirling, British actress
- 1980 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
- 1990 – Yoona, South Korean singer
[change] Deaths
- 1416 – Jerome of Prague, religious reformer (b. 1379) (burned as a heretic by the Catholic Church)
- 1431 – Joan of Arc, French heroine (b. 1412) (burned at the stake)
- 1574 – King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
- 1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
- 1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
- 1744 – Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
- 1778 – Voltaire, French philosopher (b. 1694)
- 1912 – Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American aviator (b. 1867)
- 1941 – Prajadhipok, King of Thailand (b. 1893)
- 1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (b. 1890)
- 1961 – Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
- 1964 – Leo Szilard, Hungarian nuclear physicist (b. 1898)
- 1971 – Marcel Dupre, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
- 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
- 1993 – Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
- 2009 – Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli scientist and politician, President of Israel (b. 1916)
- 2009 – Gaafar Nimeiry, President of Sudan (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist (b. 1921)
[change] Events
- 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.
- 1806 – Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
- 1814 – The First Treaty of Paris is signed returning 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 US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
- 1871 – The Paris Commune falls.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Boston Braves.
- 1941 – World War II: Germany captures Crete.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1961 – Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo is assassinated.
- 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.
- 1971 – Mariner programme: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
- 1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
- 1972 – Members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
- 1982 – Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr plays the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak will end on September 20, 1998.
- 1981 – Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated.
- 1982 – Spain becomes the 16th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (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.
- 2003 – The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.
[change] Observances
- Anguilla Day
- Canary Islands Day
