This Day in History for 30th May

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 231

1035 - Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 - German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 - Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 - English boer uprising begins in Essex
1416 - Jerome of Prague, burned at the stake for heresy by church Council of Constance
1431 - Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
1434 - Battle at Lipany
1498 - Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 - French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 - U of Marburg (Germany) founded
1539 - Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
1574 - Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 - Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 - Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1631 - France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 - Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague
1642 - From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
1646 - Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1783 - Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
French National Heroine Joan of Arc 1793 - Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1808 - Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
1821 - James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 - House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 - Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1832 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1842 - John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1848 - 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 - William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1848 - Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1854 - Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
1858 - Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
US President & General Andrew Jackson 1862 - Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1864 - Cavalry fight at Battle of Bethesda Church/Totopotomoy Creek Virginia during US Civil War
1866 - Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1868 - Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1879 - 92°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1879 - Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1879 - An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
1883 - Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
1889 - Brassier invented
1890 - 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
1894 - Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
1895 - W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
1896 - 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1899 - 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
1901 - Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1901 - Memorial Day 1st observed in US
1903 - 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
1904 - Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1906 - 40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
1907 - 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
1908 - 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 - 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win
1908 - Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 - Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1909 - National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 - Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1910 - 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
1912 - US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 - 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1913 - New country of Albania, forms
1913 - John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack
1913 - as managers who have won 1,000 games
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.
1921 - Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
1921 - Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
1921 - Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
1922 - Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 - Lincoln Memorial dedicated
1922 - Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
1923 - Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres
1924 - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 - British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 - Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
1925 - Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1925 - In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
1927 - Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1930 - Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1931 - Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
1932 - Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
1933 - Patent on invisible glass installation
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1935 - Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 - 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA
1937 - Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
1937 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
1937 - Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
1937 - 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1938 - Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1941 - 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 - English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 - German capture Kreta
1942 - 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
1942 - Reichsfuhrer Himmler arrives in Prague

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 206

1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
1220 - Alexander Nevsky, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal, Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir, considered the key figure in medieval Rus (1252-63)
1423 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1524 - Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1578 - Valentin Dretzel, composer
1623 - Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized
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, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
1797 - Johann Christian Lobe, composer
1800 - Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
1808 - Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
1812 - John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers)
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)
Key Figure of Medieval Rus Alexander Nevsky (1220) 1829 - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
1830 - Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 - George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 - Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
1844 - Louis Varney, composer
1845 - Amadeus/Amadeo I, duke of Aosta and King of Spain (1870-73)
1846 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1847 - Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
1853 - Andries Andre, Dutch actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
1853 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1859 - Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
1867 - Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
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, cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I)
1881 - Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
1883 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer
1886 - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1887 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1887 - Gino Tagliapietra, composer
1888 - James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
1891 - Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
1892 - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
1894 - Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
1895 - Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)
1896 - Howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)
1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
1902 - Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist
1902 - Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], Fla, actor (Miracle in Harlem)
1903 - Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems)
1903 - Ray Howard-Jones, artist
1904 - Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60)
1906 - Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
1907 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
1907 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
1908 - Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig)
1909 - Benny Goodman, Chicago, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing)
1909 - George Headley, cricketer (in Panama All-time great WI batsman)
1910 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
1911 - Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1912 - Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
1912 - Hugh Griffith, Wales, actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!)
1912 - Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)
1912 - Julian Gustave Symons, writer
1913 - Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
1914 - Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1915 - Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
1916 - Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
1918 - Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
1919 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1920 - John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
1922 - Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld)
1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
1923 - Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
1924 - Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 - Claude Prey, composer
1925 - Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
1925 - Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)
1926 - Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
1926 - Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
1926 - James Whitman McLamore, businessman
1927 - Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
1927 - Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
1927 - Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals)
1928 - John Keith Wright, English economist/asst sect of state (1971-84)
1928 - Agnès Varda, French director
1928 - Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
1928 - Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
1929 - Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
1930 - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1930 - Robert Ryman, American painter
1932 - Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns)
1932 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
1934 - Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19)
1934 - Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, (d. 2012)
1936 - Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1536 - English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, his 3rd wife
1992 - Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
1998 - Nephew of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven (30) weds to commoner Marilene van den Broek (28) in Apeldoorn
1999 - "The Goodbye Girl" actor Richard Dreyfuss (51) weds accountant Janelle Lacey in Los Angeles
2008 - Film actor Charlie Sheen (42) weds socialite Brooke Mueller (30) at a private estate in Los Angeles, California

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 121

727 - Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72
1035 - Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
1159 - Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
1252 - Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies
1416 - Jerome of Prague, Czech radical Christian teacher burned at the stake for heresy by church Council of Constance
1431 - Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
1434 - Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1469 - Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1574 - Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
1576 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1593 - Christopher Marlowe, Brit dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered
1640 - Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies
1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62
1696 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
1718 - Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48
1718 - Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63
1730 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 - Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
Poet Alexander Pope (1744) 1770 - François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 - Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42
1791 - Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
1797 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
1809 - Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43
1833 - Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
1840 - Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59
1864 - James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26
1865 - William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
1870 - Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
1901 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
1906 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
1912 - Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
1916 - John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate officer, dies at 82
1918 - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
The Gray Ghost John Singleton Mosby (1916) 1919 - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1922 - David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
1923 - Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
1923 - Charles Fichardt, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96), dies
1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1926 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1934 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1935 - Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
1938 - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
1939 - Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
1940 - Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
1941 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
1944 - Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
1945 - Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed
1946 - Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
1947 - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
1947 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
1951 - Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64
1953 - George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60
1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1954 - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1957 - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
1959 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85
Novelist & Poet Boris Pasternak (1960) 1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
1961 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69
1964 - Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
1964 - Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
1964 - Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
1967 - Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
1969 - Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66
1969 - John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
1971 - Audie Murphy, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46
1971 - Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66
1971 - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
1972 - Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
1973 - Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
1975 - Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1975 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1976 - Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1977 - Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86
1977 - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
1979 - Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82
1980 - Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
1981 - Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1981 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1983 - Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
1986 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
1987 - Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
1987 - Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66
1989 - Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1991 - Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian dies at 74
1992 - Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59
1992 - Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84), dies at 77
1992 - Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
1993 - Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
1993 - Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79
1994 - Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1994 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
1994 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58
1994 - Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85
1994 - Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79
1994 - Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1995 - Bobby Stokes, soccer star, dies at 44
1995 - Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
1995 - Ted Drake, soccer star, dies at 82