This Day in History - May 30th

Featured Historical Event for May 30th First US daily newspaper published The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Daily Advertiser became the first daily newspaper to be published in the U.S. on this day in 1783. Newspapers first began as handwritten notices posted daily in the public marketplaces of ancient Rome. (see also 9-21-1784)

Historical Events That Occurred on May 30th

	Soldiers are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. (1958)
	Hand-cranked ice cream freezer patented (1848)
	In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. (1922)
	First US daily newspaper published (1783)
	Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. (1806)
	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)
	The Paris Commune falls. (1871)
	Bob Watson, of the Houston Astros scores the 1,000,000th run in baseball history. (1975)
	An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60. (1879)
	Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were defeated and almost annihilated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars. (1434)
	The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (1588)
	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)
	The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain. (1972)
	At the Ascot Speedway in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row. (1967)
	The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place. (2003)
	The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas. (1854)
	Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V. (1876)
	Memorial Day (1868)
	World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. (1942)
	First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation. (1913)
	King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. (1536)
	Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao (1969)
	In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. (1539)
	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. (1911)
	The Nigerian state of Biafra secedes, sparking a civil war. (1967)
	In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people. (1883)
	World War II: Germany captures Crete. (1941)
	In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others. (1972)
	Henry III becomes King of France. (1574)
	Jimi Hendrix plays at Berkeley Community Theatre one of the last live performances before his death. (1970)
	A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. (1948)
	Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars. (1971)
	A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000. (1998)
	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. (1989)
	In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. May 30 is now her feast day as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. (1431)
	New & then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. (1914)
	Peace of Prague (1635)
	Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955. (1982)
	Babe Ruth plays in his last baseball game, in the uniform of the Boston Braves. (1935)
	The Roman Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy. (1416)

Holidays on May 30th

	Peru  National Potato Day [1].
	Trinidad and Tobago  Indian Arrival Day(National Holiday).
	United States  Memorial Day (originally  currently last Monday in May).

Notable People Born on May 30th

	Mel Blanc, American voice actor (1908)
	Leigh Francis, British comedian (1973)
	Michael Bakunin, Russian anarchist (1814)
	Colin Blythe, English cricketer (1879)
	Zdravko oli, Bosnian singer (1951)
	Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (1814)
	Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1908)
	Bruno Gröning, a faith healer in Germany (1906)
	Cee-Lo, American musician (1974)
	Stephen Malkmus, American musician (1966)
	Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (1912)
	Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (1918)
	Franklin Schaffner, American film director (1920)
	Hal Clement, American writer (1922)
	Howard Hawks, American film director (1896)
	Maurice Tate, English cricketer (1895)
	Vashti Murphy McKenzie, bishop (1947)
	Colm Meaney, Irish actor (1953)
	Manny Ramirez, Dominican Major League Baseball player (1972)
	Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (1909)
	Inge Meysel, German actress (1910)
	Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (1958)
	Keir Dullea, American actor (1936)
	Steven Gerrard, English footballer (1980)
	James Chaney, American civil rights activist (1943)
	Topper Headon, British musician (1955)
	Erich Bagge, German physicist (1912)
	Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut (1934)
	Clint Walker, American actor (1927)
	Tom Morello, American musician (1964)
	Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (1881)
	Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (1901)
	Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel laureate (1912)
	Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (1920)
	Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725 (1672)
	Gale Sayers, American football player (1943)
	John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (1623)
	Agnès Varda, French director (1928)
	Michael J. Pollard, American actor (1939)
	Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor (1951)
	Emperor Renzong of China (1010)
	Meredith MacRae, American actress (1944)
	Wynonna Judd, American singer (1964)
	Christine Jorgensen, activist (1926)
	Harry Enfield, British comedian (1961)
	Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (1423)
	Idina Menzel, American actress and singer (1971)
	Siegfried Alkan, German composer (1858)
	Roger Newdigate, English politician (1719)
	Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (1902)
	Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter (1981)
	Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (1718)
	Irving Thalberg, American film producer (1899)
	Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (1882)

Notable People That Died on May 30th

	Wilbur Wright, Aviation pioneer (1912)
	François Boucher, French painter (1770)
	Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (2006)
	Michel Simon, French actor (1975)
	Prokop the Great, Hussite general (1434)
	Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (1934)
	Hermann Broch, Austrian author (1951)
	Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (1960)
	Steve Prefontaine, American runner (1975)
	Alexander Pope, English writer (1744)
	Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (1941)
	Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (1980)
	Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (1971)
	Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (1986)
	Tex Beneke, American bandleader, singer, and saxophone player (2000)
	Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (1593)
	Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (1953)
	Tomasz PacyDski, Polish writer (2005)
	Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (1901)
	Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (1955)
	Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (1159)
	John Catron, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1865)
	Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (1868)
	Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (1925)
	Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (1961)
	Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (1640)
	Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (1718)
	Eddie Sachs, American auto racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 (1964)
	King Charles IX of France (1574)
	Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (1926)
	Sun Ra, American musician (1993)
	Voltaire, French philosopher and author (1778)
	Mickie Most, English musician (2003)
	Claude Rains, English actor (1967)
	Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai (1576)
	Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (1416)
	Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (1730)
	Joan of Arc, French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (1431)
	Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (1696)
	King Ferdinand III of Castile (1252)
	Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (1964)