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May 30 Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years ). There are 215 days remaining.
Events
1416 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic.1431 - In Rouen , France , 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake .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 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 - 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 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 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 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 .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 program : Mariner 9 is launched toward 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 - 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 5,000.1999 - Kenny Bräck wins the 83rd Indianapolis 500 2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.2004 - Buddy Rice wins a rain-shortened 88th Indianapolis 500
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 )1672 (O.S.) - Peter the Great , Tsar of Russia (d. 1725 )1814 - Michael Bakunin , Russian anarchist (d. 1876 )1879 - Colin Blythe , English cricketer (d. 1917 )1882 - Wyndham Halswelle , Scottish runner (b. 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 )
1909 - Benny Goodman , American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986 )1910 - Inge Meysel , German actress (b. 2004 )1912 - Julius Axelrod , American biochemist1912 - Hugh Griffith , Welsh actor (d. 1980 )1912 - Erich Bagge , German physicist1920 - Franklin Schaffner , American film director (d. 1989 )1920 - Ralph Metcalfe , American athlete (d. 1978 )1922 - Hal Clement , American writer (d. 2003 )1926 - Christine Jorgensen , activist (d. 1989 )1927 - Clint Walker , American actor1934 - Aleksei Leonov , cosmonaut1936 - Keir Dullea , American actor1939 - Michael J. Pollard , American actor1943 - James Chaney , American civil rights activist d. 1964 1943 - Gale Sayers , American football player1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky , American actor1953 - Colm Meaney , Irish actor1955 - Topper Headon , British musician (The Clash )1964 - Wynonna Judd , American singer1964 - Tom Morello , American musician (Audioslave )1966 - Stephen Malkmus , American musician (Pavement )1972 - Manny Ramirez , Dominican-born Major League Baseball player1973 - Leigh Francis , British comedian1980 - Steven Gerrard English footballer1981 - Devendra Banhart , American psych folk singer/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 commander and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412 )1434 - Prokop the Great , Czech general1574 - King Charles IX of France (b. 1550 )1576 - Harada Naomasa , Japanese retainer and samurai1593 - 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 , U.S. Supreme Court Justice1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck , German historian (b. 1876 )1934 - Togo Heihachiro , Japanese admiral (b. 1848 )1951 - Hermann Broch , Austrian author (b. 1886 )1953 - Dooley Wilson , American musician and actor (b. 1886 )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 )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 , 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 Pacyński , Polish writer (b. 1958 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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