Page 7: Historical Events In May - 30

1947  Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72.   

1949  East Germans constitution approved   

1949  NPS/VHP win inaugural general election in Suriname.   

1951  Hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64   

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.   

1956  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests).   

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   

1958  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)   

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   

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

1416  Death of Jerome of prague: Burned as a heretic by church   

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

1434  Death of Prokop the great: Hussite general   

1469  Lope de barrientos: Spanish bishop