May 30 in history
Events on May 30
Notable events that happened on May 30 in past years.
- 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.
Wikipedia article: Donald Trump - 2008
TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.
Wikipedia article: TACA Flight 390 - 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.
Wikipedia article: Nuclear weapons testing - 1975
The European Space Agency is established.
Wikipedia article: European Space Agency - 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.
Wikipedia article: Mariner program - 1961
The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Wikipedia article: Rafael Trujillo - 1948
A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
Wikipedia article: 1948 Columbia River flood - 1925
May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
Wikipedia article: May Thirtieth Movement - 1899
Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
Wikipedia article: Pearl Hart - 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).
Wikipedia article: Memorial Day - 1842
John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
Wikipedia article: Queen Victoria - 1806
Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
Wikipedia article: Andrew Jackson - 1631
Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
Wikipedia article: La Gazette (France) - 1536
King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
- 1381
Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
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