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is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). There are 215 days remaining.

    May 30
        Events
        Births
        Deaths
        Holidays and observances
            Liturgical feasts

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Events

1416 - The Roman Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.

1431 - 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.

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.

1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

1635 - Peace of Prague (1635) (30 Years War).

1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson 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.

1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.

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 A. Logan).

1871 - The Paris Commune falls.

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 Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.

1879 - An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.

1883 - In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes twelve people.

1911 - 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.

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.

1922 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

1935 - Babe Ruth plays in his last baseball game, in the uniform of the Boston Braves.

1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.

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 - 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.

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 Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.

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.

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.

1975 - Bob Watson, of the Houston Astros scores the 1,000,000th run in baseball history.

1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.

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.

2003 - The final flight of an Air France Concorde takes place.

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Births

1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)

1423 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)

1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)

1672 (O.S.) - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725)

1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)

1719 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)

1757 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)

1814 - Michael Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)

1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)

1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)

1875 - Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)

1878 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (d. 1933)

1879 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)

1881 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)

1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)

1886 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)

1895 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)

1896 - Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977)

1899 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)

1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)

1902 - Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)

1906 - Bruno Gröning, a faith healer in Germany (d. 1959)

1907 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot

1908 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)

1909 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)

1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)

1912 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2004)

1912 - Erich Bagge, German physicist

1912 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)

1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)

1920 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)

1920 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)

1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)

1926 - Christine Jorgensen, activist (d. 1989)

1927 - Clint Walker, American actor

1928 - Agnès Varda, French director

1934 - Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut

1936 - Keir Dullea, American actor

1939 - Michael J. Pollard, American actor

1943 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)

1943 - Gale Sayers, American football player

1944 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)

1947 - Vashti Murphy McKenzie, bishop

1950 - Bertrand Delanoë, French politician

1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor

1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian singer

1953 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor

1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)

1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)

1961 - Harry Enfield, British comedian

1962 - Kevin Eastman American Comic Book Creator

1964 - Wynonna Judd, American singer

1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine)

1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver

1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)

1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer

1972 - Manny Ramirez, Dominican Major League Baseball player

1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian

1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician

1974 - Big L, American rap artist

1977 - Rachael Stirling, British actress

1977 - Fabrice Akwa, Angolan footballer

1979 - Rie Kugimiya, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)

1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer

1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter

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Deaths

1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)

1252 - King Ferdinand III of Castile

1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (b. 1379)

1431 - Joan of Arc, French peasant girl that joined the French royal army, heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412)

1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general

1469 - Lope de Barrientos —a powerful bishop in Castile

1574 - King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)

1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai

1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)

1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)

1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)

1718 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)

1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)

1744 - Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)

1770 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)

1778 - Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)

1865 - John Catron, U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1868 - Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823

1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)

1912 - Wilbur Wright, Aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)

1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)

1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)

1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)

1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)

1951 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)

1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)

1955 - Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1918)

1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)

1961 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)

1964 - Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist (b. 1898)

1964 - Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald, American auto racers, killed during 1964 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1927)

1967 - Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)

1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)

1975 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)

1975 - Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)

1980 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)

1981 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)

1986 - Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)

1993 - Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)

2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader, singer, and saxophone player (b. 1914)

2003 - Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)

2005 - Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)

2006 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)

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Holidays and observances

Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day (National Holiday).

Peru – National Potato Day *.

United States – Memorial Day (originally – currently last Monday in May).

Liturgical feasts

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