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)

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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)
	Bob Watson, of the Houston Astros scores the 1,000,000th run in baseball history. (1975)
	The Paris Commune falls. (1871)
	Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were defeated and almost annihilated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars. (1434)
	An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60. (1879)
	The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (1588)
	The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place. (2003)
	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 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)
	At the Ascot Speedway in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row. (1967)
	The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain. (1972)
	King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. (1536)
	In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. (1539)
	First Balkan War: A peace treaty is signed in London ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation. (1913)
	Memorial Day (1868)
	World War II: Germany captures Crete. (1941)
	World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. (1942)
	The Nigerian state of Biafra secedes, sparking a civil war. (1967)
	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)
	A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. (1948)
	Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao (1969)
	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)
	Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars. (1971)
	A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000. (1998)
	In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people. (1883)
	Jimi Hendrix plays at Berkeley Community Theatre one of the last live performances before his death. (1970)
	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)
	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. (1989)
	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)
	Colin Blythe, English cricketer (1879)
	Cee-Lo, American musician (1974)
	Michael Bakunin, Russian anarchist (1814)
	Zdravko oli, Bosnian singer (1951)
	Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (1814)
	Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1908)
	Vashti Murphy McKenzie, bishop (1947)
	Stephen Malkmus, American musician (1966)
	Bruno Gröning, a faith healer in Germany (1906)
	Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (1909)
	Franklin Schaffner, American film director (1920)
	Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (1912)
	Inge Meysel, German actress (1910)
	Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (1918)
	Hal Clement, American writer (1922)
	Maurice Tate, English cricketer (1895)
	Howard Hawks, American film director (1896)
	Colm Meaney, Irish actor (1953)
	Manny Ramirez, Dominican Major League Baseball player (1972)
	Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (1958)
	Steven Gerrard, English footballer (1980)
	Keir Dullea, American actor (1936)
	Erich Bagge, German physicist (1912)
	James Chaney, American civil rights activist (1943)
	Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut (1934)
	Topper Headon, British musician (1955)
	Tom Morello, American musician (1964)
	Clint Walker, American actor (1927)
	Agnès Varda, French director (1928)
	John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (1623)
	Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725 (1672)
	Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (1718)
	Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (1881)
	Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (1920)
	Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (1423)
	Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel laureate (1912)
	Meredith MacRae, American actress (1944)
	Wynonna Judd, American singer (1964)
	Roger Newdigate, English politician (1719)
	Christine Jorgensen, activist (1926)
	Gale Sayers, American football player (1943)
	Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (1901)
	Michael J. Pollard, American actor (1939)
	Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor (1951)
	Emperor Renzong of China (1010)
	Harry Enfield, British comedian (1961)
	Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (1902)
	Siegfried Alkan, German composer (1858)
	Idina Menzel, American actress and singer (1971)
	Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter (1981)
	Irving Thalberg, American film producer (1899)
	Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (1882)

Notable People That Died on May 30th

	Wilbur Wright, Aviation pioneer (1912)
	Alexander Pope, English writer (1744)
	François Boucher, French painter (1770)
	Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (2006)
	Tomasz PacyDski, Polish writer (2005)
	Michel Simon, French actor (1975)
	Tex Beneke, American bandleader, singer, and saxophone player (2000)
	Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (1941)
	Prokop the Great, Hussite general (1434)
	Steve Prefontaine, American runner (1975)
	Hermann Broch, Austrian author (1951)
	Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (1960)
	Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (1593)
	Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (1934)
	Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (1986)
	Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (1953)
	Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (1971)
	Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (1980)
	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)
	Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (1718)
	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)
	Sun Ra, American musician (1993)
	Eddie Sachs, American auto racer, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 (1964)
	Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (1640)
	Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (1926)
	King Charles IX of France (1574)
	Voltaire, French philosopher and author (1778)
	Mickie Most, English musician (2003)
	Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai (1576)
	Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (1730)
	Claude Rains, English actor (1967)
	Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (1416)
	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)