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May 30 is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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.
• 1635 – Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed.
• 1642 – From this date all honours 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.
• 1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
• 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 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.
• 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
• 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.
• 1924 –Giacomo Matteotti spoke out in a speech at the lower house of the parliament against the result of the election, where the fascist used intimidation tactics.
• 1925 – In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
• 1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
• 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.
• 1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 1967 – At the Ascot Park 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
• 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 Britain.
• 1972 – In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• 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.

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)
• 1653 – Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
• 1713 – Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
• 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 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
• 1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
• 1819 – William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
• 1820 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
• 1845 – King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
• 1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
• 1858 – Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
• 1871 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
• 1878 – Mike Donlin, American 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)
• 1892 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
• 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)
• 1903 – Countee Cullen, American writer (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Bruno Gröning, German mystic (d. 1959)
• 1907 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
• 1907 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
• 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 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
• 1910 – Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Erich Bagge, German physicist (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
• 1912 – Joseph Stein, American librettist
• 1918 – Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
• 1919 – René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
• 1920 – Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
• 1922 – Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Clint Walker, American actor
• 1928 – Agnès Varda, French director
• 1928 – Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Robert Ryman, American painter
• 1932 – Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist
• 1934 – Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut
• 1934 – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach
• 1936 – Keir Dullea, American actor
• 1936 – Ruta Lee, Canadian actress
• 1937 – Harry Statham, American basketball coach
• 1939 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor
• 1939 – Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
• 1940 – Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1943 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 – Gale Sayers, American football player
• 1944 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1945 – Norman Eshley, English actor
• 1946 – Allan Chapman, English historian of science
• 1947 – Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian golfer
• 1948 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1949 – P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
• 1950 – Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
• 1950 – Dann Glenn, American Guitarist and Composer
• 1950 – Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
• 1951 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
• 1951 – Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
• 1951 – Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
• 1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
• 1955 – Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler
• 1955 – Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)
• 1958 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)
• 1958 – Steve Israel, American politician
• 1958 – Ted McGinley, American actor
• 1959 – Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
• 1959 – Phil Brown (footballer born 1959), English football manager (Hull City)
• 1961 – Harry Enfield, British comedian
• 1961 – Ralph Carter, American actor (Good Times)
• 1961 – Bob Yari, Iranian-born American film producer
• 1962 – Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• 1962 – Tonya Pinkins, American actress
• 1964 – Wynonna Judd, American country singer
• 1964 – Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
• 1964 – Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
• 1965 – Billy Donovan, American college basketball coach
• 1966 – Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
• 1967 – Tim Burgess, English singer (The Charlatans)
• 1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French convicted terrorist
• 1968 – Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author
• 1970 – Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress
• 1970 – Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
• 1971 – Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
• 1972 – Manny Ramírez, Dominican Republic baseball player
• 1972 – Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
• 1973 – Leigh Francis, British comedian
• 1974 – Cee-Lo, American musician
• 1974 – Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
• 1974 – Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
• 1974 – David Wilkie, American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player
• 1975 – Brian Fair, American singer
• 1975 – Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
• 1976 – Rasho Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player
• 1976 – Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
• 1976 – Margaret Okayo, Kenyan athlete
• 1977 – Akwá, Angolan footballer
• 1977 – Rachael Stirling, British actress
• 1978 – Eric Searle American Musician
• 1978 – Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1979 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
• 1980 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
• 1981 – Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
• 1981 – Blake Bashoff, American actor
• 1981 – Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver
• 1981 – Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Remy Ma, American rapper
• 1981 – Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player
• 1981 – Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer
• 1982 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
• 1983 – Jennifer Ellison, English actress, model, singer
• 1984 – Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
• 1984 – Jordan Palmer, American football player
• 1984 – Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer
• 1989 – Kevin Covais, American singer
• 1990 – Dean Collins, American actor
• 1990 – Yoona, member of Korean girl group, Girls' Generation

Deaths

• 1159 – Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
• 1252 – King Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199)
• 1416 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (b. 1379)
• 1431 – Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
• 1434 – Prokop the Great, Hussite general
• 1469 – Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop (b. 1382)
• 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, United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1786)
• 1868 – Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823)
• 1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
• 1911 – Milton Bradley, American game pioneer (b. 1836)
• 1912 – Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)
• 1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (b. 1856)
• 1925 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
• 1926 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
• 1934 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
• 1939 – Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
• 1941 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
• 1947 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
• 1948 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874)
• 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 nuclear physicist (b. 1898)
• 1964 – Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
• 1964 – Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
• 1967 – Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
• 1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
• 1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951)
• 1975 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
• 1980 – Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, Eighth President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
• 1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
• 1993 – Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Marcel Bich, French industrialist (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
• 1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 2000 – Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
• 2003 – Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2006 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (b.1927)
• 2008 – Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
• 2008 – Noel Moore, British civil servant (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

• Anguilla: Anguilla Day; Commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution which took place on May 30th, 1967.
• Canary Islands: Canary Islands Day
• Croatia: Parliament Day
• Nicaragua: Mother's Day
• Trinidad and Tobago: Indian Arrival Day
• Labuan, Sabah: First day of the Kaamatan harvest festival
• Christianity: Global Day of Prayer
• Saint Ferdinand III
• Saint Isaac of Dalmatia
• Saint Joan of Arc (celebrated in France)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

• selected by Kalki

2005

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. ~ Mikhail Bakunin (born 30 May 1814)

• selected by Kalki

2006

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed on me by my own reason. I am conscious of my own inability to grasp, in all its detail, and positive development, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole... I receive and I give — such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. Therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination. ~ Mikhail Bakunin (born 30 May 1814)

• selected by Kalki

2007

I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

• proposed by Kalki

2008

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ~ Mikhail Bakunin (born 30 May 1814)

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ~ Mikhail Bakunin

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. ~ Mikhail Bakunin (born May 30)

• 3 because, as the quote implies, the image of God has been used to enslave many people, instill heavy belief, and target religions against each other. This quote is very true, because more negative has come from religious fanaticism instead of positive. The belief in itself makes all living beings susceptible to feeling as if they are slaves to one master, the creator, so to speak. This image is well painted by Bakunin in this single quote, regardless of whether or not I agree with it. Zarbon 05:50, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

What all other men are is of the greatest importance to me. However independent I may imagine myself to be, however far removed I may appear from mundane considerations by my social status, I am enslaved to the misery of the meanest member of society. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

• 2 Zarbon 16:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Thus the individual, his freedom and reason, are the products of society, and not vice versa: society is not the product of individuals comprising it; and the higher, the more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom — and the more he is the product of society, the more does he receive from society and the greater his debt to it. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

• 2 Zarbon 16:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

• 2 Zarbon 16:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC) (though this might be a variant translation of a statement already used within a larger quote.)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his causes. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

• 2 Zarbon 16:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

• 2 Zarbon 16:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 — a great tribute to a great piece of music.
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

No one can want to destroy without having some idea, true or false, of the order of things that should, according to him or her, replace what presently exists. ~ Mikhail Bakunin

• 2 Zarbon 16:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 22:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. ~ Joan of Arc (died 30 May 1431, birthdate unknown)

• 4 Kalki 13:11, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 02:42, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

And when you're out there
Without care,
Yeah, I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
~ Crazy - Cee-Lo Green (Gnarls Barkley)

• 3 Zarbon 14:59, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
Just like me
~ Crazy - Cee-Lo Green (Gnarls Barkley)

• 3 Zarbon 14:59, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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Games released on May 30.

From Familypedia

May 30 is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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 burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
• 1434 - Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany - Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilated 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.
• 1635 - Thirty Years' War: Peace of Prague signed.
• 1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
• 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - Treaty of Paris signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
• 1832 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is first opened.
• 1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
• 1868 - Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclaimation 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 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: Treaty of London signed 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 to New York City.
• 1917 - Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
• 1922 - In Washington, 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.
• 1941 - World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the athenian Acropolis, tear down the nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
• 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 within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
• 1953 - The Auckland Harbour Bridge was officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
• 1956 - Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen premieres his piece Gesang der Jünglinge in Cologne.
• 1958 - Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1966 - Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 1967 - At the Ascot Park in Gardena, 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
• 1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 launched to Map 70% of the surface and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface of 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.
• 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.

Births

• 1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
• 1423 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
• 1623 - John Egerton, English politician (d. 1686)
• 1653 - Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
• 1672 (O.S.) - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725)
• 1713 - Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
• 1718 - Wills Hill, English politician (d. 1793)
• 1719 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
• 1757 - Henry Addington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
• 1814 - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
• 1814 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
• 1819 - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
• 1820 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
• 1845 - King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
• 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)
• 1903 - Countee Cullen, American writer (d. 1946)
• 1906 - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (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 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
• 1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
• 1912 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1912 - Erich Bagge, German physicist
• 1912 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
• 1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
• 1918 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
• 1919 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
• 1920 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
• 1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1926 - Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)
• 1927 - Clint Walker, American actor
• 1928 - Agnès Varda, French director
• 1928 - Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
• 1930 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
• 1930 - Robert Ryman, American painter
• 1932 - Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist
• 1934 - Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut
• 1934 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach
• 1936 - Keir Dullea, American actor
• 1939 - Michael J. Pollard, American actor
• 1939 - Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
• 1940 - Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1943 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
• 1943 - Gale Sayers, American football player
• 1944 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1947 - Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian LPGA golfer
• 1948 - Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1949 - P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
• 1950 - Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
• 1950 - Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
• 1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
• 1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian singer
• 1953 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor
• 1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)
• 1956 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (d. 2005)
• 1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)
• 1958 - Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-New York)
• 1959 - Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
• 1961 - Harry Enfield, British comedian
• 1962 - Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator
• 1962 - Tonya Pinkins, American actress
• 1964 - Wynonna Judd, American Country/Bluegrass Singer
• 1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
• 1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
• 1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
• 1967 - Tim Burgess, English singer (The Charlatans)
• 1968 - Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
• 1970 - Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress
• 1970 - Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
• 1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
• 1972 - Manny Ramírez, Dominican-born American baseball player
• 1972 - Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
• 1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
• 1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician
• 1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
• 1974 - Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer
• 1974 - Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
• 1974 - David Wilkie, American ice hockey player
• 1975 - Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
• 1976 - Radoslav Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player
• 1976 - Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
• 1977 - Akwá, Angolan footballer
• 1977 - Rachael Stirling, British actress
• 1979 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 - Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
• 1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer
• 1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
• 1981 - Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver
• 1981 - Blake Bashoff, American actor
• 1982 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
• 1984 - Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
• 1990 - Dean Collins, American Actor

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 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, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
• 1718 - Arnold Joost van Keppel, 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, United States 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)
• 1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
• 1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
• 1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
• 1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
• 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 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
• 1981 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
• 1986 - Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
• 1993 - Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
• 1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• 1994 - Marcel Bich, French industrialist (Société Bic) (b. 1914)
• 1995 - Ted Drake, former English footballer (b. 1912)
• 1995 - Bobby Stokes, former English footballer (b. 1951)
• 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)
• 2006 - Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2006 - David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
• 2007 - Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor, director, screenwriter and author (b. 1933)

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).
• Canary Islands – Canary Islands' Day

Liturgical feasts

• Saint Ferdinand III
• Saint Gabinus
• Saint Isaac of Dalmatia
• Saint Joan of Arc
• Saint Reinhilde

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada