Page 7: Historical Events In May - 30

1953  George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60   

1954  Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs.   

1954  Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67   

1955  Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government.   

1955  Tunisia begins domestic self governing   

1956  Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL.   

1957  In this year, Real Madrid claims 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid   

1957  Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies.   

1958  Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII and Korean War buried in Arlington.   

1959  Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality   

1959  President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua   

1959  World's inaugural hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England   

1959  Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85   

1960  Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70.   

1961  Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die   

1961  Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69.   

1962  69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)   

1962  Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres   

1964  Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1   

1964  Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66.   

1965  France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground).   

1965  Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins   

1965  Vivian Malone, is inaugural black to graduate from University of Alabama.   

1966  300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam   

1966  US launches Surveyor 1 to the 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   

1967  Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77   

1968  Beatles begin work on their only double album "The Beatles"   

1968  President De Gaulle disbands French parliament   

1968  University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown up   

1968  West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law.   

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1010  Emperor renzong of china: Emperor renzong of china (d. 1063)   

1220  Alexander nevski: [aleksandr], russian great ruler (1252-63)   

1423  Georg purbach: German mathematician and astronomer   

1524  Selam ii sari: The blonde, sultan of turkey (1566-74)   

1578  Valentin dretzel: Composer   

1623  Wallerand vaillant: Painter/engraver, baptized   

1623  John egerton: 2nd earl of bridgewater, english politician   

1653  Claudia felicitas of austria: Empress consort of germany   

0727  Hubertus: Bishop of tongeren-maastricht/saint,   

1035  Boudouin iv: Count of flanders (988-1035),   

1159  Wladislaus ii the exile of poland: Wladislaus ii the exile of poland (b. 1105)   

1252  Ferdinand iii the holy: King of castile/leon,   

1416  Jerome of prague: Burned as a heretic by church   

1431  Joan of arc: French heroine and saint (b. 1412)   

1434  Prokop the great: Hussite general   

1469  Death of Lope de barrientos: Spanish bishop