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What happend on 30. May in History
In our data base we found 362 events happened on 30. May:
• 70: Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers. [category: Events]
• 1010: Emperor Renzong of Song (d. 1063) [category: Births]
• 1159: Władysław II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105) [category: Deaths]
• 1220: Saint Alexander Nevsky (d.1263) [category: Births]
• 1252: Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199) [category: Deaths]
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• 1416: Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (b. 1379) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1423: Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461) [category: Births]
• 1431: Joan of Arc, French military figure and saint (b. 1412) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1434: Prokop the Great, Hussite general [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1469: Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop (b. 1382) [category: Deaths]
• 1536: King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. [category: Events]
• 1539: In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. [category: Events]
• 1574: Charles IX of France (b. 1550) [category: Deaths]
• 1574: Henry III becomes King of France. [category: Events]
• 1576: Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai retainer [category: Deaths]
• 1588: The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. [category: Events]
• 1593: Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564) [category: Deaths]
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• 1623: John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686) [category: Births]
• 1631: Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper. [category: Events]
• 1635: Thirty Years' War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed. [category: Events]
• 1640: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577) [category: Deaths]
• 1642: From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament. [category: Events]
• 1653: Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676) [category: Births]
• 1696: Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician (b. 1638) [category: Deaths]
• 1712: Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645) [category: Deaths]
• 1713: Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757) [category: Births]
• 1718: Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793) [category: Births]
• 1718: Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, (b. 1670) [category: Deaths]
• 1719: Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806) [category: Births]
• 1730: Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648) [category: Deaths]
• 1744: Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688) [category: Deaths]
• 1757: Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English statesman (d. 1844) [category: Births]
• 1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1768: Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French commander (d. 1815) [category: Births]
• 1770: François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703) [category: Deaths]
• 1778: Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, and author (b. 1694) [category: Deaths]
• 1800: Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose French bishop and senator (d. 1883) [category: Births]
• 1806: Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. [category: Events]
• 1814: Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1814: Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary, and philosopher, and theorist (d. 1876) [category: Births]
• 1814: Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to Elba. [category: Events]
• 1815: The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives. [category: Events]
• 1819: William McMurdo, English army officer (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1820: Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French-Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (d. 1890) [category: Births]
• 1829: Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (b. 1774) [category: Deaths]
• 1832: James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician, and historian (b. 1765) [category: Deaths]
• 1832: End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. [category: Events]
• 1832: The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened. [category: Events]
• 1834: Joaquim António de Aguiar issue a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders", earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer". [category: Events]
• 1842: John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert. [category: Events]
• 1844: Félix Arnaudin, French poet and photographer (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1845: Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890) [category: Births]
• 1846: Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1854: The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas. [category: Events]
• 1858: Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1865: John Catron, American jurist (b. 1786) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: Okita Sōji, Japanese Shinsengumi captain (b. 1823) [category: Deaths]
• 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). [category: Events]
• 1871: Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1874: Ernest Duchesne, French physician (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1875: Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1876: Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V. [category: Events]
• 1878: Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1879: Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1881: Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1882: Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1883: In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people. [category: Events]
• 1886: Laurent Barré, Canadian author and politician (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1886: Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1887: Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian artist (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1887: Paulette Noizeux, French actress (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1890: Roger Salengro, French politician (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1892: Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1894: Hubertus van Mook, Dutch administrator and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1895: Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1896: Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1899: Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1899: Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona. [category: Events]
• 1901: Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1901: Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841) [category: Deaths]
• 1902: Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1906: Bruno Gröning, German mystic (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1907: Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1907: Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1908: Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1908: Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1909: Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1909: Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1910: Harry Bernstein, English-American writer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1910: Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1910: Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete and politician (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1911: Milton Bradley, American businessman, founder of the Milton Bradley Company (b. 1836) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1912: Erich Bagge, German physicist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1912: Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1912: Joseph Stein, American playwright (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1912: Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1912: Wilbur Wright, American airplane inventor, manufacturer, and pilot (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation. [category: Events]
• 1914: Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1916: Justin Catayée, French politician (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1917: Alexander I becomes king of Greece. [category: Events]
• 1918: Bob Evans, American restaurateur and businessman, founder of Bob Evans Restaurants (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1918: Pita Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1918: Georgi Plekhanov, Russian theoretician (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: René Barrientos, Bolivian politician, 55th President of Bolivia (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1920: Franklin Schaffner, American director (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1922: Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1922: In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated. [category: Events]
• 1925: Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot 13 protesting workers to death. [category: Events]
• 1926: Christine Jorgensen, American transgender (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1926: Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Clint Walker, American actor [category: Births]
• 1928: Agnès Varda, French director [category: Births]
• 1928: Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1929: Georges Gilson, French bishop [category: Births]
• 1930: Mark Birley, English nightclub owner, founded Annabel's (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1930: Robert Ryman, American painter [category: Births]
• 1931: Larry Silverstein, American businessman and real estate investor [category: Births]
• 1932: Pauline Oliveros, American accordionist, composer, and author (Deep Listening Band) [category: Births]
• 1934: Alexey Leonov, Russian astronaut [category: Births]
• 1934: Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach [category: Births]
• 1934: Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Guy Tardif, Canadian politician (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1935: Lee Gunther, American producer and editor (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1936: Keir Dullea, American actor [category: Births]
• 1936: Ruta Lee, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1937: Harry Statham, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1937: Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill 10 labor demonstrators. [category: Events]
• 1939: Dieter Quester, Austrian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1939: Michael J. Pollard, American actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1941: Prajadhipok, King of Thailand (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika. [category: Events]
• 1942: World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany. [category: Events]
• 1943: Gale Sayers, American football player [category: Births]
• 1943: James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1944: Lenny Davidson, English guitarist (The Dave Clark Five) [category: Births]
• 1944: Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1944: Stav Prodromou, Greek-American businessman [category: Births]
• 1945: Norman Eshley, English actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Allan Chapman, English historian [category: Births]
• 1946: Louis Slotin, Canadian scientist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Jocelyne Bourassa, French-Canadian golfer [category: Births]
• 1947: Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austro-Hungarian navy officer (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1948: József Klekl, Slovene politician (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. [category: Events]
• 1949: Klaus Flouride, American musician, songwriter, and producer (Dead Kennedys) [category: Births]
• 1949: P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1949: Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Bertrand Delanoë, French politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Dann Glenn, American bassist, composer, and author [category: Births]
• 1950: Paresh Rawal, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer-songwriter (Ambasadori and Korni Grupa) [category: Births]
• 1951: Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Kerry Fraser, Canadian ice hockey referee [category: Births]
• 1952: Scott Holmes, American actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Colm Meaney, Irish actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Jake Roberts, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1955: Topper Headon, English musician and songwriter (The Clash and Mirkwood) [category: Births]
• 1955: Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician (Roxette) [category: Births]
• 1958: Michael Lopez-Alegria, Spanish-American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1958: Steve Israel, American politician [category: Births]
• 1958: Ted McGinley, American actor [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1959: Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Phil Brown, English footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1959: Randy Ferbey, Canadian curler [category: Births]
• 1959: The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham. [category: Events]
• 1960: Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Bob Yari, Iranian-American film producer [category: Births]
• 1961: Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor, writer, and director [category: Births]
• 1961: Ralph Carter, American actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. [category: Events]
• 1962: Kevin Eastman, American comic book artist, writer, and publisher [category: Births]
• 1962: Tonya Pinkins, American actress [category: Births]
• 1963: Helen Sharman, English chemist and astronaut [category: Births]
• 1963: Michel Langevin, Canadian drummer and songwriter (Voivod) [category: Births]
• 1963: Élise Lucet, French journalist and television host [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1964: Andrea Montermini, Italian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1964: Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and activist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchman, and Axis of Justice) [category: Births]
• 1964: Wynonna Judd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Judds) [category: Births]
• 1964: Dave MacDonald, American race car driver (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Leó Szilárd, Hungarian physicist (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Abderraouf Jdey, Tunisian terrorist [category: Births]
• 1965: Billy Donovan, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1965: Iginio Straffi, Italian businessman, founder of Rainbow S.r.l. [category: Births]
• 1965: Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Stephen Malkmus, American singer and musician (Pavement and Silver Jews) [category: Births]
• 1966: Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu. [category: Events]
• 1966: Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body. [category: Events]
• 1967: Tim Burgess, English singer-songwriter (The Charlatans and The Chavs) [category: Births]
• 1967: Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian director (b.1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war. [category: Events]
• 1968: Jason Kenney, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1968: Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author [category: Births]
• 1968: Zacarias Moussaoui, French terrorist [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1969: Naomi Kawase, Japanese director [category: Births]
• 1969: Ryuhei Kitamura, Japanese director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1970: Flora Chan, Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Ness Wadia, Indian businessman [category: Births]
• 1971: Duncan Jones, English director [category: Births]
• 1971: Idina Menzel, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Jiri Slegr, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1971: Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1972: Manny Ramirez, Dominican-American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1972: Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1972: In Tel Aviv, Israel members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others. [category: Events]
• 1972: The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1973: Leigh Francis, English comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Big L, American rapper (Children of the Corn and Diggin' in the Crates Crew) (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1974: Cee Lo Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley) [category: Births]
• 1974: David Wilkie, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1974: Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor [category: Births]
• 1974: The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service. [category: Events]
• 1975: Andy Farrell, English rugby player [category: Births]
• 1975: Brian Fair, American singer and musician (Shadows Fall and Overcast) [category: Births]
• 1975: Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Leonel Grave de Peralta, Cuban activist [category: Births]
• 1976: Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1976: Margaret Okayo, Kenyan runner [category: Births]
• 1976: Rasho Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Akwá, Angolan footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Federico Vilar, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Marc Dos Santos, Canadian soccer manager and coach [category: Births]
• 1977: Rachael Stirling, English actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Cyrus King, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Eric Searle American singer and guitarist (Light Pupil Dilate) [category: Births]
• 1978: Kevin Hart, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1978: Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1978: Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, conductor, and composer (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Clint Bowyer, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1979: Fabian Ernst, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Francis Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1979: Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1979: Rie Kugimiya, Japanese voice actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Steven Gerrard, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Carl Radle, American musician and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Blake Bashoff, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Devendra Banhart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Megapuss) [category: Births]
• 1981: Gianmaria Bruni, Italian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1981: Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Remy Ma, American rapper and songwriter (Terror Squad) [category: Births]
• 1981: Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi statesman (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1982: James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player [category: Births]
• 1983: Jennifer Ellison, English actress, model, singer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1984: Alexander Sulzer, German ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Jordan Palmer, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Aaron Volpatti, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1985: Jennifer Winget, Indian Actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Joyce Cheng, Hong Kong singer, writer, actress, and model [category: Births]
• 1988: Antonio Winterstein, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1988: Kelvin Etuhu, Nigerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Ailee, American-Korean singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Hyomin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (T-ara) [category: Births]
• 1989: Kevin Covais, American singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1989: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. [category: Events]
• 1990: Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1990: Dean Collins, American actor [category: Births]
• 1990: Im Yoona, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation) [category: Births]
• 1991: Jonathan Fox, English swimmer [category: Births]
• 1992: Liam Mower, English actor and dancer [category: Births]
• 1993: Sun Ra, American musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Hugo Leclercq, French music producer [category: Births]
• 1994: Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Ezra Taft Benson, American religious figure (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Marcel Bich, French businessman and industrialist, co-founder of BIC Corp. (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Lofty England, English automotive engineer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1996: Léon-Etienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Jake Short, American actor [category: Births]
• 1998: A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000. [category: Events]
• 1998: Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt. [category: Events]
• 2000: Jared S. Gilmore, American actor [category: Births]
• 2000: Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Denis Whitaker, Canadian soldier and author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Mickie Most, English singer and producer, founded Rak Records (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 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 fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards. [category: Events]
• 2005: Alma Ziegler, American baseball player (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Shohei Imamura, Japanese director (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (b.1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Auguste Legros, French politician (b.1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Lorenzo Odone, American adrenoleukodystrophy patient (b. 1978) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Noel Moore, English civil servant (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Joan Rhodes, English wrestler, stuntwoman, and strongwoman (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Peter Orlovsky, American poet (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Eddie Morrison, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Hans Nogler, Austrian skier (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Henri Chammartin, Swiss horse rider (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Isikia Savua, Fijian diplomat (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Paul B. Ferrara, American scientist (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Ricky Bruch, Swedish athlete and actor (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Syed Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Tillmann Uhrmacher, German DJ, producer, and radio host (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Charles Lemmond, American politician (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Farideh Mashini, Iranian activist [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Gerhard Pohl, German politician (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Fox, American comedian (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Pete Cosey, American guitarist (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• _: Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967. (Anguilla) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Canary Islands Day (Canary Islands) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary can fall, while July 3 is the latest; celebrated 20 days after Pentecost. (Roman Catholic church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ferdinand III of Castile [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Isaac of Dalmatia [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Joan of Arc (celebrated in France) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Lod Massacre Remembrance Day (Puerto Rico) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: May 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mother's Day (Nicaragua) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Parliament Day (Croatia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of the Kaamatan harvest festival (Labuan, Sabah) [category: Holidays and observances]