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This day in history: 30 May

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428 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 30 May.
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2024: Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case.

Holidays and observances

Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967. (Anguilla)

Canary Islands Day (Spain)

Christian feast day: Basil the Elder and Emmelia of Caesarea

Christian feast day: Blessed Otto Neururer

Christian feast day: Dymphna

Christian feast day: Ferdinand III of Castile and León

Christian feast day: Isaac of Dalmatia

Christian feast day: Joan of Arc

Christian feast day: Joseph Marello

Christian feast day: Luke Kirby

Christian feast day: Matiya Mulumba

Christian feast day: May 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Events

2024Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case.

2020Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from 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.

2013Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

2012Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

2008Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.

2008TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.

2003Depayin 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.

199953 people are killed in a stampede at the Nyamiha metro station in Minsk, Belarus.

1998Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.

1998The 6.5 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.

1990Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.

1989Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

1982Cold War: Spain joins NATO.

1979Downeast Airlines Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.

1975The European Space Agency is established.

1974The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.

1972In 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.

1972The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.

1971Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.

1968Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, West 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 Pari

1967The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.

1966Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.

1963A 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 presidency of Ngo Dinh Diem.

1961The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

1961Viasa Flight 897 crashes after takeoff from Lisbon Airport, killing 61.

1959The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.

1958Memorial 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.

1948A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

1943The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.

1942World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.

1941World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.

1937Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.

1925May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.

1922The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1914The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.

1913The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War between the Balkan allies and the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans cede all their European territories west of a straight line between Enos and Media and Albania becomes an independent

1911At 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.

1899Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.

1883In New York City, 12 people are killed in a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge.

1876Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.

Born on this day

2002Natty, Thai singer based in South Korea

2000Jared S. Gilmore, American actor

1999Eddie Nketiah, English footballer

1999Guanyu Zhou, Chinese race car driver

1997Charlie Hall, American actor

1997Jake Short, American actor

1997Jung Eun-bi, South Korean singer and actress

1996Aleksandr Golovin, Russian footballer

1996Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player

1994Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player

1992Danielle Harold, English actress

1992Harrison Barnes, American basketball player

1992Jeremy Lamb, American basketball player

1991Jonathan Fox, English swimmer

1990Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player

1990Im Yoon-ah, South Korean singer and actress

1990Zack Wheeler, American baseball player

1989Ailee, Korean-American singer and songwriter

1989Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player

1986Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian international footballer

1986Will Peltz, American actor

1985Aaron Volpatti, Canadian ice hockey player

1985Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (died 2013)

1985Igor Lewczuk, Polish footballer

1984Alexander Sulzer, German ice hockey player

1984Matt Maguire, Australian footballer

1984Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer

1982Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (died 2007)

1982James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player

1982Leonid Radvinsky, American businessman (died 2026)

1981Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer

1981Devendra Banhart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1981Gianmaria Bruni, Italian race car driver

1981Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer

1981Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player

1981Remy Ma, American rapper

1980Ilona Korstin, Russian basketball player

1980Ryōgo Narita, Japanese author

1980Steven Gerrard, English international footballer and manager

1979Clint Bowyer, American race car driver

Died on this day

2025Étienne-Émile Baulieu, French biochemist and endocrinologist (born 1926)

2025John E. Thrasher, American politician (born 1943)

2025Loretta Swit, American actress and singer (born 1937)

2025Valerie Mahaffey, American actress (born 1953)

2024Drew Gordon, American professional basketball player (born 1990)

2024Geneviève de Galard, French nurse (born 1925)

2021Jason Dupasquier, Swiss motorcycle road racer (born 2001)

2020Michael Angelis, British actor (born 1944)

2019Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (born 1983)

2019Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)

2016Rick MacLeish, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1950)

2016Tom Lysiak, Polish-Canadian ice hockey player (born 1953)

2015Beau Biden, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 44th Attorney General of Delaware (born 1969)

2015Joël Champetier, Canadian author and screenwriter (born 1957)

2015L. Tom Perry, American religious leader and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1922)

2014Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1927)

2014Hienadz Buraukin, Belarusian poet, journalist, and diplomat (born 1936)

2014Joan Lorring, British actress (born 1926)

2014Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral (born 1932)

2013Jayalath Jayawardena, Sri Lankan physician and politician (born 1953)

2013Larry Jones, American football player and coach (born 1933)

2012Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)

2012Gerhard Pohl, German economist and politician (born 1937)

2012Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1934)

2012John Fox, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1957)

2011Clarice Taylor, American actress (born 1917)

2011Isikia Savua, Fijian police officer and diplomat (born 1952)

2011Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (born 1942)

2011Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)

2011Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (born 1970)

Quote of the day

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

Marcus Aurelius

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