SomeFacts | May 30

On this day - May 30

70 — Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the ...

1381 — Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.

1416 — The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a ...

1431 — Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old ...

1434 — Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, ...

1510 — During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel ...

1536 — King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a ...

1539 — In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 ...

1574 — Henry III becomes King of France.

1588 — The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon ...

1631 — Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.

1635 — Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.

1642 — From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are ...

1723 — Johann Sebastian Bach assumed the office of Thomaskantor in ...

1796 — War of the First Coalition: In the Battle of Borghetto, ...

1806 — Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson ...

1814 — The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French ...

1815 — The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at ...

1834 — Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law ...

1842 — John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives ...

1845 — The Fatel Razack coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria ...

1854 — The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the U.S. ...

1862 — American Civil War: The Siege of Corinth ends in a Union ...

1866 — Bedrich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride ...

1868 — Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial ...

1876 — The secret decree of Ems Ukaz, issued by Russian Tsar ...

1876 — Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his ...

1883 — In New York City, 12 people are killed in a stampede on the ...

1899 — Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage ...

1911 — At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ...

1913 — The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; ...

1914 — The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS ...

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

1925 — May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot ...

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

1941 — World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the ...

1942 — World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute ...

1943 — The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of ...

1948 — A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating ...

1958 — Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American ...

1959 — The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in ...

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

1961 — The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is ...

1963 — A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the ...

1966 — Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several ...

1967 — The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the ...

1968 — Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to ...

1971 — Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the ...

1972 — In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, ...

1972 — The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings ...

1974 — The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.

1975 — European Space Agency is established.

1979 — Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional ...

1982 — Cold War: Spain joins NATO.

1989 — Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high ...

1990 — Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, ...

1998 — Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the ...

1998 — The 6.5 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of ...

2003 — Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the ...

2008 — TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín ...

2008 — Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.

2012 — Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 ...

2013 — Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

2020 — The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, ...

2024 — Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in ...