Historical Events In May - 30

1967  On May - 30 king Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo  

1967  Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles on May - 30.  

1967  Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball on May - 30.  

1967  Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77 on May - 30.  

1968  On May - 30 beatles begin work on their only double album "The Beatles"  

1968  President De Gaulle disbands French parliament on this day in history.  

1968  University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown up on May - 30.  

1968  West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law on May - 30.  

1969  On this day in history gibraltar adopts constitution  

1969  On May - 30 people revolt in Willemstad, Curaçao  

1969  On this day in history gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66  

1971  On this day in history 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; after drinking LSD apple juice  

1971  On this day in history train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die  

1971  US Mariner 9 first satellite to orbit Mars launched on this day in history.  

1971  Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46 on May - 30.  

1972  3 Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport on May - 30.  

1972  On this day in history margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104  

1973  On May - 30 ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup  

1973  Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1975  On this day in history european Space Agency (ESA) forms  

1975  Wings release "Venus & Mars" album on this day in history.  

1975  On this day in history michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80  

1976  Bobby Unser sets world record for the fastest pit stop (4 seconds) on May - 30.  

1977  On May - 30 claire Goll, writer, dies at 86  

1979  On this day in history nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich  

1979  On this day in history percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80  

1979  On May - 30 jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82  

1980  The first papal visit to France since 1814 on this day in history.  

1980  On this day in history turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million  

1980  On May - 30 carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment  

1981  "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday) on May - 30.  

1981  On May - 30 bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers  

1981  Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated on May - 30.  

1982  Spain becomes 16th member of NATO on this day in history.  

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1010  On May - 30 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 May - 30.  

1524  Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74) was born on May - 30.  

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 May - 30 hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72  

1035  On May - 30 boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies  

1159  Death of Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105) on May - 30.  

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

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  Death of Prokop the Great, Hussite general on this day in history.  

1469  On May - 30 death of lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop