On this day in History - May 30

• 1010 - Emperor Renzong of China, was born (d. 1063)
• 1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland dies (b. 1105)
• 1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon dies (b. 1198/1199?)
• 1416 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague (b. 1379) as a heretic.
• 1423 - Georg Purbach was born (d. 1461). German mathematician and astronomer.
• 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.
• 1527 - The University of Marburg was founded in Germany.
• 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
• 1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater was born (d. 1686). English politician
• 1635 - Peace of Prague (1635) (30 Years War)
• 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.
• 1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire was born (d. 1793). English politician.
• 1719 - Roger Newdigate was born (d. 1806). English politician.
• 1746 - Abade de Faria was born. Portuguese scientist.
• 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
• 1783 - The first daily newspaper was published in the U.S. by Benjamin Towner called "The Pennsylvania Evening Post"
• 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.
• 1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan was born (d. 1894). Belgian mathematician.
• 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».
• 1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé was born. Russian jeweller.
• 1848 - W.G. Young patented the ice cream freezer.
• 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.
• 1858 - Siegfried Alkan was born (d. 1941). German composer.
• 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 - Palmira Bastos was born. Portuguese actress.
• 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 - An F4 tornado struck Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
• 1879 - Colin Blythe was born (d. 1917). Kent and England left arm spinner.
• 1881 - Georg von Küchler was born (d. 1968). German field marshal
• 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 - Ernesto Guardia Navarro was born. President of 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 - The U.S. Marines were sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
• 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.
• 1914 - New & then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• 1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor was born (d. 2000). Mexican poet.
• 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.
• 1928 - Agnès Varda was born. French director
• 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
• 1936 - Glória de Matos was born. Portuguese actress.
• 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
• 1943 - James Chaney was born (d. 1964). American civil rights activist.
• 1947 - Vashti Murphy McKenzie was born. Bishop
• 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 Čolić was born. Bosnian singer
• 1953 - Colm Meaney was 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.
• 1958 - Marie Fredriksson was born. Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)
• 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.
• 1963 - Ruy Lopes Esteves Ribeiro de Almeida Couto dies in Paris (b. 12 Mar 1898). Brazilian poet.
• 1964 - Leó Szilárd dies (b. 1898). Hungarian-American nuclear physicist.
• 1964 - Wynonna Judd was born. American country music singer
• 1964 - Tom Morello was born. American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine)
• 1966 - Thomas Hassler was born. German footballer.
• 1966 - Stephen Malkmus was born. American musician (Pavement)
• 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.
• 1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui was born. Terrorist.
• 1969 - Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
• 1970 - Jimi Hendrix plays at Berkeley Community Theatre one of the last live performances before his death.
• 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
• 1971 - Marcel Dupré dies (b. 1886). French composer.
• 1971 - Idina Menzel was born. American actress and singer.
• 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.
• 1974 - Cee-Lo was born. American musician
• 1975 - Bob Watson, of the Houston Astros scores the 1,000,000th run in baseball history.
• 1975 - Steve Prefontaine dies (b. 1951). American distance runner.
• 1979 - Fabian Ernst was born. International German footballer, 24 games for National team 1 goal. He wears the colours of Schalke 04
• 1980 - Steven Gerrard was born. English footballer.
• 1981 - Portugal : No Porto, no teatro Carlos Alberto, estreia o bailado Romeu e Julieta, pela primeira vez representado por portugueses, pertencentes à Companhia Nacional de Bailado.
• 1981 - Devendra Banhart was born. American singer and songwriter
• 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.
• 1998 - Geri Halliwell announced she was leaving the Spice Girls.
• 1999 - Kenny Bräck wins the 83rd Indianapolis 500
• 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 place.
• 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)