Page 7: Historical Events In May - 30

1945  On this day in history irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed   

1946  United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die on May - 30.   

1947  Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1949  East Germans constitution approved on May - 30.   

1949  On May - 30 nPS/VHP win first general election in Suriname   

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

1953  George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60 on May - 30.   

1954  Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history tunisia begins domestic self governing   

1956  Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL on May - 30.   

1956  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) on this day in history.   

1957  On this day in history real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid   

1957  On May - 30 toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies   

1958  Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington on May - 30.   

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

1959  Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality on May - 30.   

1959  On May - 30 president Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua   

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 May - 30.   

1960  On this day in history boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70   

1961  On May - 30 dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die   

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 May - 30.   

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

1964  Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1 on May - 30.   

1964  On May - 30 leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66   

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

1965  Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins on this day in history.   

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

1966  300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam on this day in history.   

1966  US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon on this day in history.   

1967  Biafra declares independence from Nigeria on this day in history.   

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1010  On this day in history birth of emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)   

1220  Alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63) was born on May - 30.   

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  Valentin Dretzel, composer was born on May - 30.   

1623  Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized was born on this day in history.   

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

1653  Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676) was born on this day in history.   

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

1035  Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies on May - 30.   

1159  On this day in history death of wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)   

1252  Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies on this day in history.   

1416  Death of Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church on May - 30.   

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

1434  On May - 30 death of prokop the Great, Hussite general   

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