This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
05/30/1220 Alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63) 
05/30/1524 SelŒm II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74) 
05/30/1578 Valentin Dretzel, composer 
05/30/1672 Peter I, (the Great), tsar of Russia (1682-1725) 
05/30/1757 Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04) 
05/30/1797 Johann Christian Lobe, composer 
05/30/1800 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach) 
05/30/1808 Joaquim Casimiro Junior, composer 
05/30/1812 John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers) 
05/30/1829 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert 
05/30/1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
05/30/1832 George Doherty Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army) 
05/30/1835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden) 
05/30/1844 Louis Varney, composer 
05/30/1845 Amadeus I FM, duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73) 
05/30/1846 Peter Carl Faberg‚, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker 
05/30/1847 Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independenc

05/30/1853 Andries Andr‚, actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen 
05/30/1853 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer 
05/30/1859 Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist 
05/30/1867 Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57) 
05/30/1881 George KFW von Kchler, German field marshal (Invasion Netherlands) 
05/30/1883 Riccardo Zandonai, composer 
05/30/1887 Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer 
05/30/1887 Gino Tagliapietra, composer 
05/30/1888 James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38) 
05/30/1891 Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter 
05/30/1894 Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonization (1942-45) 
05/30/1896 Howard Hawks, US director/producer: Rio Bravo/Scarface 
05/30/1901 Cornelia Otis Skinner, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay) 
05/30/1902 Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], actor (Miracle in Harlem) 
05/30/1903 Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems) 
05/30/1904 Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panam  (1956-60) 
05/30/1908 Hannes OG Alfv‚n, Swedish physicist (Nobel 1970) 
05/30/1908 Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig 
05/30/1909 Benny Goodman, Chicago Ill, swinger/clarinetist, 'King of Swing' 
05/30/1911 Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats) 
05/30/1912 Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!) 
05/30/1913 Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer 
05/30/1914 Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show) 
05/30/1916 Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium) 
05/30/1922 Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld) 
05/30/1923 Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill) 
05/30/1924 Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952) 
05/30/1925 Claude Prey, composer 
05/30/1925 Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician 
05/30/1926 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual 
05/30/1926 Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph) 
05/30/1927 Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen) 
05/30/1927 Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder) 
05/30/1927 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals) 
05/30/1929 Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger) 
05/30/1932 Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns) 
05/30/1932 Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer 
05/30/1934 Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II Soyuz 19) 
05/30/1936 Galina Sjostakovitsj, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri 
05/30/1936 Keir Dullea, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa) 
05/30/1936 Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar) 
05/30/1938 Wilfried A de Pree, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (PvdA) 
05/30/1939 Michael J Pollard, Passaic NJ, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne) 
05/30/1940 David Ackroyd, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of Me) 
05/30/1942 Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida) 
05/30/1943 Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears) 
05/30/1944 Larry Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over) 
05/30/1945 Meredith MacRae, Houston Tx, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons)

05/30/1951 Stephen Tobolowsky, actor (Single White Female, Thelma & Louise) 
05/30/1952 Zoltan Kocsis, composer 
05/30/1955 Nicky 'Topper' Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control) 
05/30/1957 Allison Roe, Auckland NZ, marathoner (NYC-1981) 
05/30/1957 Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez) 
05/30/1958 Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj Swed, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Lov

05/30/1958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, US Navy Lt Commander/astronau

05/30/1960 Stephen 'Tea Tower' Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song) 
05/30/1961 Ella Arolovich, entertainer 
05/30/1961 Ralph Carter, actor (Michael Evans-Good Times) 
05/30/1961 Trey Parker, actor (Newsies) 
05/30/1962 Tonya Pinkins, Chicago Ill, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children) 
05/30/1963 Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12) 
05/30/1963 Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982) 
05/30/1964 Wynonna Judd, [Christina], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me) 
05/30/1968 Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know) 
05/30/1972 Trey Parker, rapper/actor (Hull High) 
05/30/1976 Omri Hairi Katz, LA Calif, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana) 
05/30/1986 Ashley Slaney, daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard Slaney 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/30/ 727 Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72 
05/30/1035 Boudewijn IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies 
05/30/1252 Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castili‰/Le¢n, dies 
05/30/1416 Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church 
05/30/1431 Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19 
05/30/1434 Prokopius, [Bohemia?], leader of taboriets, dies in battle 
05/30/1574 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies 
05/30/1593 Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist/poet/spy, murdered 
05/30/1640 Andr‚ Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies 
05/30/1718 Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48 
05/30/1718 Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist, dies at 63 
05/30/1744 Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 
05/30/1746 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69 
05/30/1778 Voltaire, [Fran‡ois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies 
05/30/1791 Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56 
05/30/1797 Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48 
05/30/1809 Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43 
05/30/1833 Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27 
05/30/1840 Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59 
05/30/1864 James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26 
05/30/1865 William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 

05/30/1870 Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89 
05/30/1906 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30 
05/30/1912 Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies 
05/30/1918 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies 
05/30/1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 
05/30/1923 Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63 
05/30/1935 Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49 
05/30/1938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49 
05/30/1940 Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104 
05/30/1944 Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies 
05/30/1947 Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72 
05/30/1953 George Barnes, cinematographer, dies 
05/30/1957 Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies 
05/30/1959 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 86 
05/30/1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70 
05/30/1961 Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69

05/30/1964 Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66 
05/30/1966 W„in” V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor, dies at 72 
05/30/1967 Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77 
05/30/1969 Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 67 
05/30/1969 John Cipollini, guitarist, dies at 45 of ephysema 
05/30/1971 Marcel Dupr‚, French composer, dies at 85 
05/30/1971 Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies at 66

05/30/1972 Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104 
05/30/1973 Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 
05/30/1975 Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80 
05/30/1977 Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52 
05/30/1979 Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82 
05/30/1980 Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment 
05/30/1981 Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated 
05/30/1983 Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84 
05/30/1986 Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55 
05/30/1987 Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94 
05/30/1987 Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71 
05/30/1988 Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at 66 
05/30/1989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83 
05/30/1991 Manolo Gomez Bur, entertainer, dies 
05/30/1992 Daniel Addes, actor, dies 
05/30/1992 Karl Carstens, president Germany (1979-84), dies at 77 
05/30/1992 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72 
05/30/1993 Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 7

05/30/1993 Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79 
05/30/1994 Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at 85 
05/30/1994 Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79

 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/30/1035 Boudewijn V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders 
05/30/1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad 
05/30/1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht 
05/30/1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex 
05/30/1416 Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church 
05/30/1434 Battle at Lipany 
05/30/1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America 
05/30/1527 U of Marburg (Germany) founded 
05/30/1539 Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto lands in Florida 
05/30/1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France 
05/30/1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)

05/30/1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland 
05/30/1588 Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade Englan

05/30/1646 Spain & Netherlands signs temporary ceasefire 
05/30/1814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication 
05/30/1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged) 
05/30/1832 variste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 3

05/30/1848 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians 
05/30/1848 William Young patents ice cream freezer 
05/30/1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery

05/30/1854 Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created 
05/30/1858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked 
05/30/1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth 
05/30/1862 Battle of Front Royal, VA 
05/30/1864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA 
05/30/1864 Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia 
05/30/1866 Opera 'Die Verkaufte Braut' premieres (Prague) 
05/30/1889 Brasierre is invented 
05/30/1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game 
05/30/1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated 
05/30/1901 Memorial Day 1st observed in US 
05/30/1903 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #511 Davida 
05/30/1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader 
05/30/1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved 
05/30/1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System 
05/30/1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane 
05/30/1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized 
05/30/1911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 75 MPH (120 KPH) 
05/30/1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua 
05/30/1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London 
05/30/1913 Conclusion of 1st Balkan War 
05/30/1913 New country of Albania, formed 
05/30/1921 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany 
05/30/1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord 
05/30/1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated 
05/30/1924 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1032 Pafuri 
05/30/1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists 
05/30/1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators 
05/30/1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy 
05/30/1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph) 
05/30/1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins 
05/30/1933 Patent on invisible glass installation 
05/30/1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies 
05/30/1937 Denny Shute wins PGA golf tournament 
05/30/1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 d

05/30/1937 Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory 
05/30/1937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago 
05/30/1938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium 
05/30/1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia 
05/30/1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government 
05/30/1941 German capture Kreta 
05/30/1942 1st Bombing attack on Cologne (1,000 bombers) 
05/30/1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor 
05/30/1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers 
05/30/1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians 
05/30/1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 di

05/30/1949 East Germans constitution approved 
05/30/1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname 
05/30/1949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting 
05/30/1951 Heavyweight Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in Chicago 
05/30/1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2 
05/30/1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs 
05/30/1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2) 
05/30/1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasti

05/30/1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing 
05/30/1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida 
05/30/1959 Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua 
05/30/1959 Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament 
05/30/1959 World's 1st hovercraft tested at Cowes England 
05/30/1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die 
05/30/1961 Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs 
05/30/1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India) 
05/30/1964 Beatles 1961 record of 'Cry for a Shadow' is #1 in Australia 
05/30/1964 Beatles' 'Love Me Do,' single goes #1 
05/30/1965 Viet-cong offensive against US base Da Nang 
05/30/1965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama 
05/30/1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam 
05/30/1966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph) 
05/30/1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon 
05/30/1967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria 
05/30/1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo 
05/30/1967 Robert 'Evel' Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles 
05/30/1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album 'Beatles' 
05/30/1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament 
05/30/1968 University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up 
05/30/1968 West German Bondsdag accept emergency crisis law 
05/30/1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution 
05/30/1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Cura‡ao 
05/30/1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice 
05/30/1971 Train crash at Pigeon droppings, 5 die 
05/30/1971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched 
05/30/1972 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airpo

05/30/1973 Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup 
05/30/1974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4 
05/30/1975 Wings release 'Venus & Mars' album 
05/30/1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds) 
05/30/1977 Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits Calif Angels, 2-0 
05/30/1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80 
05/30/1979 Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC 
05/30/1980 Turner's painting 'Juliet & Her Nurse' sells for $6.4 million 
05/30/1981 'Nightline' extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday) 
05/30/1982 Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds 
05/30/1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO 
05/30/1985 Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
05/30/1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched 
05/30/1986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500 
05/30/1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square 
05/30/1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house 
05/30/1990 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru 
05/30/1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56 
05/30/1992 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven becomes 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old

05/30/1992 NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams 
05/30/1992 Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell 
  
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