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Events from History on May 30

1035 : Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 : German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 : Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 : English boer uprising begins in Essex
1416 : Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church
1434 : Battle at Lipany
1498 : Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 : French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 : U of Marburg (Germany) founded
1536 : English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
1539 : Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
1574 : Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 : Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 : Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1588 : Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England
1631 : France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 : Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague
1646 : Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1783 : Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1793 : Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1808 : Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 : 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
1821 : James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 : House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 : Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1842 : John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1848 : 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 : Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of
1848 : Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1848 : William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1854 : Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1854 : Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
1858 : Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1862 : Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1862 : Battle of Front Royal, VA
1864 : Battle of Bethesda Church VA
1864 : Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia
1866 : Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1868 : Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi
1868 : placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
1872 : Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1879 : Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1883 : Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a
1883 : stampede that kills 12
1889 : Brassier invented
1890 : 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
1895 : W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
1896 : 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1901 : Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1901 : Memorial Day 1st observed in US
1904 : Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1907 : 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
1908 : 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 : 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win
1908 : Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 : Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 : US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1909 : National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 : Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1912 : US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 : 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1913 : John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack
1913 : New country of Albania, forms
1921 : Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
1921 : Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
1921 : Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
1922 : Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle
1922 : Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 : Lincoln Memorial dedicated
1922 : of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
1923 : Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres
1924 : Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 : British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 : Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
1925 : Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1927 : Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1931 : Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
1932 : Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
1933 : Patent on invisible glass installation
1937 : 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA
1937 : 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends
1937 : Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
1937 : Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
1937 : Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
1938 : Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1941 : 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 : English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 : German capture Kreta
1942 : 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
1942 : Reichsfhrer Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 : Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
1942 : US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1943 : French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 : US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 : Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1946 : Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
1946 : United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
1949 : East Germans constitution approved
1949 : NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1949 : WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1951 : Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1952 : Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1952 : Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres
1953 : 23rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (63 64 16 62)
1953 : 23rd French Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)
1954 : Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 : Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres
1955 : KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 : Said el-Mufti forms Jordan govt
1955 : Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 : Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
1956 : Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium
1956 : US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 : Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
1958 : US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 : Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
1959 : "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
1959 : "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1959 : Iraq terminates milt assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1959 : Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 : Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 : World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
1961 : Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1961 : Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
1962 : 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962 : Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres
1964 : "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 perfs
1964 : Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of
1965 : France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
1965 : Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 : Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 : 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 : US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
1967 : Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
1967 : King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 : Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1967 : Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
1968 : Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
1968 : President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 : University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
1968 : West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 : Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 : People revolt in Willemstad, Cura‡ao
1970 : "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
1970 : Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
1971 : 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
1971 : Train crash at Duivendrecht Neth, 5 die
1971 : US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1972 : 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
1974 : 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 : European Space Agency (ESA) forms
1975 : Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 : 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt
1976 : Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1977 : Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits Calif Angels, 2-0
1979 : Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
1979 : Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 : Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1980 : 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 : Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 : Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1981 : "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1981 : Bangladesh Pres Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1982 : "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin NYC after 5 perf
1982 : Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
1982 : Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1983 : AL Pres Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for
1983 : Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
1983 : one week, for his public criticism of umpires
1984 : Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
1984 : NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
1986 : Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 : Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
1986 : France performs nuclear test
1987 : Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 : North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 : Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 : West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1989 : Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1990 : 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
1990 : Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
1990 : Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135
1991 : Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they
1991 : give police & can be held accountable
1992 : Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
1992 : NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
1992 : Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
1992 : UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1996 : Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks
1996 : John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 : Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson

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