Page 7: Historical Events In May - 30

1945  Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed on this day in history.   

1946  United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die on this day in history.   

1947  On this day in history sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72   

1949  On May - 30 east Germans constitution approved   

1949  On this day in history nPS/VHP win first general election in Suriname   

1951  Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1953  On this day in history george Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60   

1954  Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs on May - 30.   

1954  On this day in history ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67   

1955  Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government on this day in history.   

1955  Tunisia begins domestic self governing on May - 30.   

1956  On May - 30 bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL   

1956  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) on May - 30.   

1957  Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid on this day in history.   

1957  On this day in history toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies   

1958  On May - 30 unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington   

1958  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) on May - 30.   

1959  Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality on this day in history.   

1959  President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua on May - 30.   

1959  On this day in history world's first hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England   

1959  Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1960  On May - 30 boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70   

1961  Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die on May - 30.   

1961  On May - 30 rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69   

1962  69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India) on this day in history.   

1962  On May - 30 benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres   

1964  On this day in history beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1   

1964  Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1965  On this day in history france performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)   

1965  On May - 30 viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins   

1965  On May - 30 vivian Malone, is first black to graduate from University of Alabama   

1966  On May - 30 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam   

1966  On May - 30 uS launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon   

1967  On this day in history biafra declares independence from Nigeria   

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1010  Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063) was born on this day in history.   

1220  On this day in history birth of alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63)   

1423  Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461) was born on this day in history.   

1524  On this day in history birth of selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)   

1578  On May - 30 birth of valentin Dretzel, composer   

1623  Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized was born on May - 30.   

1623  John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686) was born on May - 30.   

1653  On May - 30 birth of claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)   

0727  On this day in history hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72   

1035  On this day in history boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies   

1159  On May - 30 death of wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)   

1252  On May - 30 ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies   

1416  On this day in history death of jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church   

1431  On this day in history death of joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)   

1434  On this day in history death of prokop the Great, Hussite general   

1469  Death of Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop on May - 30.