On this day: 30 May

Years ago today

Events · 28

• 1381(Julian date)
  Peasants' Revolt of 1381 — major uprising across large parts of England in 1381
• 1434
  Battle of Lipany — fought at Lipany, Vitice in 1434 during the Hussite Wars
• 1626
  Wanggongchang Explosion — explosion disaster in a gunpowder factory in Beijing
• 1635
  Peace of Prague — 1635 peace treaty between the Emperor (the Cathiloc League) and the Electorat of Saxony
• 1796
  Battle of Borghetto — battle during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars
• 1814
  War of the Sixth Coalition — 1813–1814 conflict during the Napoleonic Wars
• 1814
  Treaty of Paris — 1814 treaty
• 1854
  Kansas Territory — territory of the United States between 1854 and 1861
• 1868
  Memorial Day — federal holiday in the United States of America for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces
• 1913
  Treaty of London — signed on 30 May during the London Conference of 1913
• 1922
  Lincoln Memorial — memorial in Washington, D.C., United States
• 1925
  May Thirtieth Movement — 1925 anti-imperialist labor movement in Republic-era China
• 1930
  Jiandao Communist Party Incident
• 1937
  Memorial Day massacre of 1937 — Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago
• 1959
  Auckland Harbour Bridge — road bridge in Auckland, New Zealand
• 1961
  Viasa Flight 897 — aviation accident
• 1967
  Biafra — secessionist state in Nigeria
• 1969
  1969 Curaçao uprising — series of riots and protests
• 1972
  Lod Airport massacre — 1972 terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, Israel
• 1975
  European Space Agency — European organisation dedicated to space exploration
• 1979
  Downeast Flight 46 — 1979 aviation accident
• 1998
  May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake — 1998 severe earthquake centered in Takhar Province, Afghanistan
• 1998
  Chagai-II — nuclear test in Pakistan, 1998
• 1999
  Nyamiha disaster — stampede on 30 May 1999
• 2003
  Depayin massacre
• 2005
  disappearance of Natalee Holloway — 2005 disappearance of an American teenager in Aruba
• 2008
  TACA Flight 390 — 2008 aviation accident in Honduras
• 2015
  Bonin Islands 2015 earthquake — Japanese seismic event

Births · 60

• 1010(Julian date)
  Emperor Renzong of Song — Chinese emperor from 1022 to 1063
• 1201(Julian date)
  Theobald I of Navarre — King of Navarre from 1234 to 1253
• 1423(Julian date)
  Georg von Peuerbach — Austrian mathematician and astronomer (1423-1461)
• 1672(Julian date)
  Peter the Great — Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
• 1757
  Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804
• 1814
  Mikhail Bakunin — Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)
• 1814
  Eugène Charles Catalan — French and Belgian mathematician (1814–1894)
• 1835
  Alfred Austin — British writer and poet (1835–1913)
• 1845
  Amadeo I of Spain — Italian Royal and temporary Head of State of Spain (1845–1890)
• 1846
  Peter Carl Fabergé — Russian jeweller (1846–1920)
• 1881
  Georg von Küchler — German field marshal (1881–1968)
• 1887
  Alexander Archipenko — American sculptor and artist of Ukrainian origin (1887–1964)
• 1896
  Howard Hawks — American film director, producer and screenwriter (1896–1977)
• 1899
  Irving Thalberg — American film producer (1899-1936)
• 1908
  Hannes Alfvén — Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
• 1908
  Mel Blanc — American voice actor (1908–1989)
• 1909
  Benny Goodman — American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909–1986)
• 1912
  Julius Axelrod — American biochemist (1912–2004)
• 1912
  Hugh Griffith — Welsh actor (1912–1980)
• 1919
  René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño — President of Bolivia (1919–1969)
• 1921
  Franklin J. Schaffner — American film director (1920–1989)
• 1922
  Hal Clement — American author (1922–2003)
• 1926
  Christine Jorgensen — first American to become widely known for having sex reassignment surgery (1926–1989)
• 1928
  Agnès Varda — French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)
• 1934
  Alexey Leonov — Soviet-Russian pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934–2019)

Deaths · 60

• 340(Julian date)
  Eusebius of Caesarea — Greek Christian scholar, c. 260–c. 339
• 727(Julian date)
  Hubertus — Christian saint, first bishop of Liège (c.656-727)
• 1035
  Baldwin IV — Count of Flanders (980-1035)
• 1159(Julian date)
  Władysław II the Exile — High Duke of Poland
• 1252(Julian date)
  Ferdinand III of Castille — 13th-century saint and king of Castile, Leon and Galicia
• 1416(Julian date)
  Jerome of Prague — Czech philosopher
• 1431(Julian date)
  Joan of Arc — French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death
• 1434(Julian date)
  Prokop the Great — Hussite priest and military leader
• 1472(Julian date)
  Jacquetta of Luxembourg — Figure of the Wars of the Roses
• 1574(Julian date)
  Charles IX of France — King of France (1550–1574)
• 1593(Julian date)
  Christopher Marlowe — English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)
• 1606
  Guru Arjan — guru of Sikhism (1563-1606)
• 1640
  Peter Paul Rubens — Flemish painter (1577–1640)
• 1744(Julian date)
  Alexander Pope — English poet (1688–1744)
• 1770
  François Boucher — French painter (1703–1770)
• 1778
  Voltaire — French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
• 1832
  James Mackintosh — British politician (1765-1832)
• 1867
  Ramón Castilla — president of Peru (1797-1867)
• 1901
  Victor D'Hondt — Belgian jurist (1841-1901)
• 1918
  Georgi Plekhanov — Russian philosopher (1856–1918)
• 1925
  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck — German historian (1876–1925)
• 1926
  Vladimir Steklov — Russian mathematician (1863–1926)
• 1927
  Vincenzo Cerulli — Italian astronomer (1859–1927)
• 1934
  Tōgō Heihachirō — Japanese admiral of the fleet (1848–1934)
• 1941
  Prajadhipok — King of Siam