On this day in History - May 30

1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon dies (b. 1198/1199?)
1416 - Jerome of Prague, dies (b. 1379). Czech theologian.
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 by a pro-English tribunal.
1431 - Joan of Arc, dies (burned at the stake by a pro-English tribunal) (b. 1412) . French commander and saint.
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.
1574 - King Charles IX of France dies (b. 1550).
1576 - Harada Naomasa, dies. Japanese retainer and samurai under Oda Nobunaga
1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1593 - Christopher Marlowe,dies (b. 1564). English playwright
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, dies (b. 1577). German painter.
1662 - Casamento de D. Catarina, filha de D. João IV, com Carlos II de Inglaterra.
1672 - Peter the Great, (Piotr Alekseevich Romanov) was born (d. 1725). Tsar of Russia. Nascimento de Pedro o Grande (1672-1725), imperador da Rússia. Foi responsável pela ocidentalização da Rússia, edificando a cidade de São Petersburgo.
1770 - François Boucher, dies (b. 1703). French painter.
1744 - Alexander Pope, dies (b. 1688). English poet, and writer.
1778 - Voltaire, (François Marie Arouet), dies (b. 1694). French philosopher, author.

1779 - D. Fernando de Sousa e Silva é nomeado 4º Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa
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.
1814 - Michael Bakunin, was born (d. 1876). Russian anarchist.
1834 - As ordens religiosas masculinas são extintas e os seus bens nacionalizados. A medida é da responsabilidade de D. Pedro, enquanto regente, e de Joaquim António de Aguiar, que passa por isso a ser conhecido por «o Mata-Frades».

1849 - Pedro Santana assume (pela 2º vez) a presidência da República Dominicana
1850 - Nasceu o republicano português, fundador de "O Século", Sebastião de Magalhães Lima.
1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
1865 - John Catron, dies. Associate justice of the United States
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.
1875 - Nasceu a actriz portuguesa Palmira Bastos.
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 - Colin Blythe, was born (d. 1917). Kent and England left arm spinner.
1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, was born. British runner
1883 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.
1895 - Maurice Tate, was born (d. 1956). Sussex and England all-rounder.
1896 - Howard Hawks, was born (d. 26 Dec 1977). American film director : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monkey Business, Hatari, Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo, Sergeant York, A Song is Born, The Thing.

1899 - Irving Thalberg, was born (d. 1936). American film producer.
1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, was born (d. 1979). Broadway producer, writer, director, and actress.
1902 - Stepin Fetchit, was born (d. 1985). American dancer and actor.

1904 - Nascimento de Ernesto Guardia Navarro. Presidente do Panamá (1956-1960)
1907 - Elly Beinhor, was born. Pilot .

1908 - Hannes (Olof Gösta) Alfvén was born (d. 2 Apr 1995). Swedish astrophysicist, one of the founders of the field of plasma physics (the study of ionized gases) and winner, with Louis Néel of France, of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics "for fundamental work in magnetohydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics."
1908 - Mel Blanc, was born (d. 1989). American voice actor.
1909 - Benny Goodman, was born (d. 1986). American clarinet player and Swing-era bandleader.
1910 - Inge Meysel, was born (d. 2004). German actress.
1911 - At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1912 - Julius Axelrod, was born. American biochemist. Received the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1970 (with British biophysicist Sir Bernard Katz and Swedish physiologist Ulf von Euler).

1912 - Joseph Stein, was born. Playwright
1912 - Hugh Griffith, was born (d. 1980). Welsh actor.
1912 - Erich Bagge, was born. German physicist
1913 - First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.

1919 - Nascimento de René Barrientos Ortuño. Presidente da Bolívia (1964-1969).
1920 - Franklin Schaffner, was born (d. 1989). American film director
1920 - Ralph Metcalfe, was born (d. 1978). American athlete
1922 - Hal Clement, was born (d. 2003). American science fiction writer.
1922 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. Daniel Chester French created the famous sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, titled Seated Lincoln. Lincoln is in meditation, seated in a large armchair. Both French and the Piccirilli brothers completed the sculpture. On this day in 1922 the memorial in which the statue is permanently seated was dedicated, although the cornerstone was laid in 1915.

1925 - Criação da Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol.
1926 - Christine Jorgensen,was born (d. 1989). transsexual activist.
1926 - O primeiro governo saído do golpe militar de 28 de Maio entra em funções. É presidido pelo comandante Mendes Cabeçadas, herói da Revolução de 5 de Outubro de 1910.
1927 - Clint Walker, was born. Actor
1934 - Aleksei Leonov, was born. Cosmonaut and first person to walk in space
1935 - Babe Ruth plays in his last baseball game, in the uniform of the Boston Braves.
1936 - Keir Dullea, was born. American actor
1939 - Michael J. Pollard, was born. American actor
1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.
1942 - World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1943 - Gale Sayers, was born. American football star
1948 - A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1951 - Hermann Broch, dies (b. 1886). Austrian author.
1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, was born. Actor
1951 - Zdravko Colic, was born. Yugoslavian singer
1953 - Colm Meaney, eas born. Irish actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine)
1954 - Susan Kelly-Gilbert, was born. Vice-President of Advertising and Marketing at the Colorado Springs Gazette in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician, actor.
1955 - Topper Headon, was born. British musician, drummer with The Clash
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.
1960 - Boris Pasternak, dies (b. 1890). Russian author. Nobel Prize 1958.
1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dies (b. 1891). Dictator of the Dominican Republic .

1962 - Início do Campeonato Mundial de Futebol realizado no Chile.
1964 - Leó Szilárd, dies (b. 1898). Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.

1964 - Wynonna Judd, was born. American country music singer

1966 - Nascimento de Thomas Hassler. Jogador alemão de futebol.
1967 - Claude Rains, dies (b. 1889). English actor.
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.
1971 - Marcel Dupré, dies (b. 1886). French composer.
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.
1972 - Manny Ramirez,was born. Dominican baseball player
1973 - Leigh Francis (aka Avid Merrion), was born. British comedian.
1975 - Steve Prefontaine, dies (b. 1951). American distance runner.
1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
1982 - Baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr plays the first of 2,632 consecutive games. His streak will end on September 20, 1998.
1986 - Perry Ellis, dies. Fashion designer
1986 - Claudia Beni, was born. Croatian singer
1989 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

1992 - Antoni Zygmund dies (b. 26 Dec 1900). Polish-born mathematician who created a major analysis research centre at Chicago, and recognized in 1986 for this with the National Medal for Science.
1993 - Sun Ra, dies (b. 1914). American musician.
1994 - Juan Carlos Onetti dies. Writer.
1998 - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
1999 - Kenny Bräck wins the 83rd Indianapolis 500
place.
2000 - Tex Beneke, dies. Bandleader, singer, saxophone player .

2002 - Morte do actor, compositor e escritor brasileiro Mário Lago.
2003 - Mickie Most, dies (b. 1938). English musician
2003 - Hans Peter Willberg, dies. Literature critic
2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes
2004 - Buddy Rice wins a rain-shortened 88th Indianapolis 500
United States - Memorial Day (originally - currently last Monday in May)
Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day in Fiji (last Monday in May)