Year

Event In History On May 30th

2002

Standing among trees in Sequoia National Park in California, President Bush pledged to protect "these works of God" and other natural treasures from mankind.

Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was convicted of corruption and sentenced to six months in prison.

Moses Malone and college coaches Mike Krzyzewski and John Chaney entered the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Year

Event In History On May 30th

1901

Cornelia Otis Skinner, actress (Swimmer, Kismet) & writer, was born.

1902

On this day in 1902, Nathan Stubblefield demonstrated radio broadcasting at Fairmont Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hem Day, Belgian scholar, secondhand bookseller, pacifist, anarchist, & writer, is born.

1903

Countee Cullen, American poet, born in Louisville, Kentucky.

1904

Baseball's Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader.

1908

Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and countless other Warner Bros. cartoon characters, is born this day in San Francisco.

1909

National Conference on the Negro convened, resulting in the formation of the NAACP.

Benny Goodman, jazz swinger, is born.

1911

Indianapolis saw its first long-distance auto race; Ray Harroun was the winner.

1912

Two companies of Marines rushed to Nicaragua to "protect U.S. interests".

Joseph Stein (playwright: Fiddler on the Roof, Enter Laughing) is born.

1913

First Balkan War ends, Treaty of London.

Pee Wee (George) Erwin (musician: trumpet: Tommy Dorsey Band) is born.

1915

Frank Blair (newscaster: The Today Show [8/3/1953-3/14/1975]) is born.

1916

Dr. Joseph W Kennedy (discovered Plutonium) was born.

1920

Franklin Schaffner (director of Patton, Lionheart); and George London (actor of Maytime) are born.

1922

Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington D.C., by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during the middle of a baseball doubleheader. Both play for both teams today.

'Smilin' Ed McConnell debuted on radio, smiling and playing his banjo.

1925

The Anglo-American police in Shanghai fire on anti-Japanese demonstrators parading on the Nanking Lu, killing 12 Chinese students & workers.

1926

Steklov, mathematician, dies.

Johnny Gimble, Country muiscian, is born.

1927

Clint Walker (actor of Small Soldiers, Dirty Dozen, Bounty Man) is born.

1933

Sally Rand introduced her exotic and erotic fan dance to audiences at Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition.

1935

Lee Gunther (producer of Transformers GI Joe, Dungeons&Dragons) is born.

1936

Keir Dullea (actor of Alien Hunter, Starlost) and Ruta Lee (actress in Smurfs, Scoobie Doo) were born today.

1937

Carl Hubbell pitches 24th consecutive baseball victory in a two-year period.

US: Police murder 10 fleeing workers, wounded 30 more & beat 55 so badly they required hospitalization during the "Memorial Day Massacre" at the Republic Steel plant in south Chicago.

1939

Michael J. Pollard, (actor in Dick Tracy, Tango & Cash, Hannibal Brooks), is born.

1940

David Ackroyd, (actor in No Strings Attached, Johnny Quest, Dallas, Exo-man) is born.

1942

A thousand-plane raid on the German city of Cologne is launched by Great Britain in Operation Millenium as 1,500 tons of bombs rained down in 90 minutes.

1943

American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.

US: San Antonio, Texas bureaucrats shut down the Chili Queens, now memorialized every year on Memorial Day.

Gale Sayers (Chicago Bears: NFL Rookie of the Year [1965]) is born.

1944

Lenny Davidson (of The Dick Clark Five) is born.

1945

Meredith MacRae (actress for "Fall Guy", "Beverly Hillbillies", "Mantrap") is born.

1946

Mike (Michael George) Sadek (baseball: catcher: SF Giants) is born.

1947

Jocelyn Bourassa (golf champion: DuMaurier Classic [1973]) is born.

1949

Lydell Mitchell (football: Penn State Univ. [single-season rushing record: 1,567 yards in 1971];) is born.

1950

Bert Angeles (producer of Lady & Her Maid, Two Of A Kind) died.

1951

Stephen Tobolwsky (actor in Storm Of the Century, Green Mile) is born.

1953

Colm Meaney (actor in Star Trek Next Generation, Con Air, Die Hard ) is born.

1955

Nicky "Topper" Headon (of The Clash) and Jake Roberts (ECW's Jake The Snake) is born.

1958

Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Ted McGinley, (actor in Pearl Harbor, Revenge Of Nerds 4), and Marie Fredriksson (of Roxette) are born.

1961

Ralph Carter, (actor of TV series Good Times), and Harry Endfield (Young Indiania Jones Chronicials); and John Terlesky (actor in Vampirella, Love Boat) is born.

1962

Benny Goodman led the first American jazz band to play in the Soviet Union.

Tonya Pinkins, (actress in All My Children), and Tom Morell, rock musician for Audioslave, and Kevin Eastman (writer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) is born.

1963

In Paris, France, Brazilian poet & short story writer, Ribeiro Couto, dies.

Lynda Wiessmeier (Playmate July 82) was born.

1964

Wynonna Judd, country singer, and Todd Rippon (Actor in Hercules & Xena) is born.

1965

Tom Morello, rock musician of Rage Against The Machine,and Anne Welles (actress in Ring Of Fire and Red Zone) is born.

1966

Benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization at Winterland in Frisco. The Jefferson Airplane performed.

Country singer Dolly Parton and Carl Dean were married.

1967

After suffering through years of suppression under Nigeria's military government, the breakaway state of Biafra proclaims its independence from Nigeria.

Actor Claude Rains, best known for his role as the dapper chief of police in Casablanca, dies at age 77.

Daredevil Evel Knievel jumped 16 automobiles in a row in a motorcycle stunt at Ascot Speedway in Gardena, CA.

Ian Hodgkinson (WCW's Vampiro) is born.

1968

France in a massive General Strike!

Renee Griffin (Showdown in Little Tokyo) was born.

1969

US: 20,000 rally in a peaceful protest in Berkeley, California, to oppose state suppression of People's Park, put flowers on the fences.

Tammy Parks (porn actress) is born.

1970

David Dukas (actor in Operation Delta Force, Return of Merlin); Ron Kennell (actor in Flowers for Algernon) is born.

1971

Federal law changed the observance of the holiday to the last Monday in May and extended it to honor all soldiers who died in American wars.

American space probe Mariner Nine blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla., on a journey to Mars.

36 Grateful Dead fans treated for hallucinations caused by LSD they unwittingly ingested from a spiked apple drink served at San Francisco's Winterland.

1972

England: The Stoke Newington Eight trial begins, lasting until 6 December, making a record as the longest trial in British history.

US: Labor union ban begins against French airlines & business mail in protest of French nuclear testing.

Trey Parker, actor in "Newsies", and baseball players Manny Ramirez & Scott Eyre, are born.

1973

Chris Taloa (actor in Blue Crush) is born.

1974

Cee-Lo, rapper of Goodie Mob, is born.

1976

Omri Katz (actor in Dallas) is born.

1978

Helen Adams (starred in Big Brother, Audience With Kylie Minogue) was born.

1979

Brett Anderson (actress from Jawbreaker, Saturday Night Live) is born.

1980

Though many say disco is deader than a door nail, "Mickey Mouse Disco" turns platinum.

Carl Radle, bass player for Derek & the Dominos & Leon Russell among others, dies of a chronic kidney problem.

1981

Blake Bashoff, (actor in Big Bully), is born.

Ziaur Rahman, the President of Bangladesh, is assassinated.

1982

Spain became NATO's 16th member.

1984

Bomb explodes during Eden Pastora's press conference at La Penca, Nicaragua, killing eight, wounding 28, including American Tony Avirgan.

Ethan Glazer (actor in Seaquest DSV) is born.

1985

"Mammals in the Limelight" opens in the National Museum of Natural History as a permanent exhibition

1986

European Space Agency launched a rocket carrying the Intelsat V communications satellite.

1987

In Liverpool, England, Adam Horovitz (Beastie Boys) was arrested for allegedly assaulting a female fan during a riot at a Beastie Boys show.

1989

The "Goddess of Democracy" statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

1990

Midnight Oil closes down 6th Avenue in New York City as they play a protest concert in front of Exxon's offices. This was in reaction to the Exxon Valdez disaster.

1992

Charles Geschke, president of Adobe Systems, was rescued after kidnappers held him hostage for four days.

Paul Simon (of Simon & Garfunkel) and Edie Brickell were married.

Zygmund, mathematician, died today.

1993

President Bush ordered the seizure of Yugoslav government assets in the United States after the United Nations imposed sanctions in an effort to force Yugoslavia to observe a cease-fire in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Emerson Fittipaldi won the 77th Indianapolis 500, driving at an average speed of 157.207 mph.

1996

Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their ten-year marriage.

1997

Neil Young canceled his European tour because he had cut his finger while slicing a ham sandwich.

1998

Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka, whose 1994 murder inspired "Megan's Law," requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.

Northern Afghanistan was rocked by a powerful earthquake believed to have killed up to 5,000 people.

1999

In London, a bomb threat at a Kenny Rogers concert being held at Royal Albert Hall.

In New Jersey, Lenny Kravitz walked off stage after 40 minutes and collapsed from heat exhaustion. He had been performing in a fur coat.

Year

Event In History On May 30th

1800

Mathematician, Feuerbach, is born.

1806

Andrew Jackson (former senator, representative of Tennessee) wins duel, killing Charles Dickinson, a lawyer after Andrew's wife, Rachel, was slandered as a bigamist by Dickinson.

1811

Vissarion Grigoryevitch Belinsky, Russian literary critic, often called the father of the Russian radical intelligentia; is born.

1814

The First Treaty of Paris was declared, which returned France to its 1792 borders.

Russia: Anarchist theorist Mikhail Bakunin is born in Prjamuchino. Conspirator, rival of Marx, assassin of God.

Mathematician, Catalan, is born.

1819

Hannah Myers Longshore, physician, is born.

1821

Samuel Newell, missionary to India, died.

1835

Alfred Austin, successor of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as British poet laureate, is born.

1839

The first Lutheran synod was held in Australia.

1842

England: Near miss: John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill with Albert.

1846

Peter Faberge, Russian Jeweler; is born.

1848

W.G. Young patented the ice cream freezer.

1853

Kate Nichols Trask, writer, playwright, founder of Yaddo; is born.

1854

The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.

1868

Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic issued General Order Number 11 designating May 30 as a memorial day.

1874

Josephine Preston Peabody, poet, is born.

1875

Giovanni Gentile, Italian idealist poet philosopher, politician, educator, sometimes called the philosopher of Fascism; is born.

1879

William Vanderbilt renamed New York City's Gilmore's Garden to Madison Square Garden.

1882

Jane Deeter Rippin, head of the American Girl Scouts, is born.

1883

12 people were trampled to death when a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in imminent danger of collapsing triggered a stampede.

1889

The brassiere was invented.

1892

Stepin Fetchit (actor: Amazing Grace, The Sun Shines Bright, Miracle in Harlem, Judge Priest) was born.

1896

The first automobile accident occurred in New York City.

Howard Hawks, American film director, screenwriter, & producer is born. Awarded honorary Oscar in 1975. Directed Viva Villa; To Have & Not Have; The Big Sleep.

Year

Event In History On May 30th

1744

Alexander Pope, hymnist, died in Twickenham.

1765

First black student to graduate from the University of Alabama, Vivian Malone Jones.

1778

French philosopher, satirist Voltaire dies. Possibly the greatest 18th-century European writer. His greatest work is Candide (1759).

1783

Pennsylvania Evening Post begins, first daily newspaper in the country.

1794

Zilpah Polly Grant Banister (educator) is born.

Year

Event In History On May 30th

1640

Peter Paul Rubens, painter, dies.

1650

Joachim Neander, hymnist, was born.

1672

Peter The Great, Tsar of Russia is born.

Year

Event In History On May 30th

1536

king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour

1539

Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida.

1593

Playwright Christopher Marlowe, 29, is killed in a brawl over a bar tab on this day.

Year

Event In History On May 30th

1416

Jerome of Prague was burned as a heretic by the Church.

1423

Mathematician, Peurbach, was born.

1431

Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

Year

Event In History On May 30th

339

Eusebius of Caesarea died at age 74. He was the author of ten volumes of _Ecclesiastical History.

727

Hubert, bishop of Maastrict, died. As the story goes, He was considered the patron saint of hunters.

1133

The Council of Pisa convened to condemn Peter of Bruys, a reformer who denied the value of infant baptism.