May
30
Anguilla,
United Kingdom
Anguilla Day; the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in
1967
Events
70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach
the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to
the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting
down all trees within fifteen kilometers.
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 is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
Because of this the Catholic Church remember this day as the
celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
1434 – Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany – effectively
ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek
defeat and almost annihilate 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.
1631 – Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.
1635 – Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed.
1642 – From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively
annulled by Parliament.
1806 – Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after
Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty
of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their
1792 extent. Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to Elba.
1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm
at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa,
with the loss of 372 lives.
1832 – End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate,
Germany.
1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1834 – Joaquim António de Aguiar issue a law extinguishing "all
convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses
of the regular religious orders", earning him the nickname
of "The Friar-Killer".
1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she
drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the
US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
1859 – Westminster's Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial
Day") is observed in the United States for the first time
(By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic"
John A. Logan's proclamation 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, New York's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison
Square Garden by William Henry 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 that crushes twelve people.
1899 – Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach
30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis
500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first
winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed
ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
1914 – The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania,
45,647 tons, sets 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.
1925 – May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shot
13 protesting workers to death.
1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb
on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika.
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 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American
servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean
War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in Arlington National Cemetery.
1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour
in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General
Lord Cobham.
1961 – Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated
in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during
the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National
Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year
rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several
other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders
of President Joseph Mobutu.
1966 – Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve
landing on an extraterrestrial body.
1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as
the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight
to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly
by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million
of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This
is the turning point of May 1968 in France.
1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of
the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere
and surface, of Mars.
1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings
throughout the United Kingdom.
1972 – In Tel Aviv, Israel members of the Japanese Red Army
carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring
78 others.
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.
1998 –Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test
in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device
with yield of 20kt.
2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with
the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored
mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested
soon afterwards.
Holidays
and observances
Anguilla
Day, commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution
in 1967. (Anguilla)
Canary Islands Day (Canary Islands)
Christian Feast Day:
Earliest day on which Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
can fall, while July 3 is the latest; celebrated 20 days after
Pentecost. (Roman Catholic church)
Ferdinand III of Castile
Isaac of Dalmatia
Joan of Arc (celebrated in France)
May 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Lod Massacre Remembrance Day (Puerto Rico)
Mother's Day (Nicaragua)
Parliament Day (Croatia)
The first day of the Kaamatan harvest festival (Labuan, Sabah)
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