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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