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What Happened on May 30th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
2013	Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
2012	Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
2008	Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
2008	TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.
2003	Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi flees the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
1998	The 6.5 Mw  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
1998	Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
1990	Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
1989	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1982	Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
1979	Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
1975	European Space Agency is established.
1974	The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
1972	The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
1972	In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
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.
1968	Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
1967	The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1966	Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1963	A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1961	The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1961	Viasa Flight 897 crashes after takeoff from Lisbon Airport, killing 61.
1959	The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
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.
1948	A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1943	The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
1942	World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1941	World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.
1937	Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
1925	May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
1922	The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1914	The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
1913	The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation.
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.
1899	Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1883	In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
1876	Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
1868	Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time after a proclamation by John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic (a veterans group).
1866	Bedrich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.
1854	The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the U.S. territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
1845	The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the country.
1842	John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
1834	Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
1815	The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
1814	The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792 extent, and restoring the House of Bourbon to power.
1806	Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
1642	From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are retroactively annulled by Parliament.
1635	Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
1631	Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
1588	The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1574	Henry III becomes King of France.
1539	In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1536	King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1510	During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
1434	Hussite 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.
1431	Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
1416	The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1381	Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
70	Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.

Famous People Born on May 30

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Year	Name
1982	Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
1898	John Gilroy, English artist and illustrator (d. 1985)
1909	Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (d. 1988)
1423	Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1961	Bob Yari, Iranian-American director and producer
1930	Robert Ryman, American painter (d. 2019)
1931	Larry Silverstein, American real estate magnate
1885	Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1942)
1944	Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
1985	Igor Lewczuk, Polish footballer

Famous People Deaths On May 30

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Date	Name
1926	Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1864)
1986	Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded his own eponymous fashion brand (b. 1940)
1892	Mary Hannah Gray Clarke, American author, correspondent, and poet (b. 1835)
1778	Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
2014	Hienadz Buraukin, Belarusian poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1936)
1712	Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)
1376	Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon, French noblewoman
1925	Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author (b. 1876)
1431	Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (b. 1412)
1981	Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)