Page 8: Historical Events In May - 30

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   

1969  In this year, Gibraltar formally adopts constitution.   

1969  Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66   

1971  36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; after drinking LSD apple juice   

1971  Train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die.   

1971  US Mariner 9 inaugural satellite to orbit Mars launched   

1971  Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46   

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

1972  Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104   

1973  In this year, Ajax claims 3rd Europe Cup.   

1973  Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66.   

1975  European Space Agency (ESA) forms   

1975  Wings release "Venus and Mars" album.   

1975  Michel Simon, actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80.   

1976  Bobby Unser sets world record for the quickest pit stop (4 seconds).   

1977  Claire Goll, writer, dies at 86   

1979  In this year, Nottingham Forrest claims 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich.   

1979  Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80.   

1979  Jack Raine, actor (Quartet), dies at 82   

1980  The inaugural papal visit to France since 1814.   

1980  Turner's painting "Juliet and Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million.   

1980  Carl Radle, bassist (Derek and Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment.   

1981  "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)   

1981  Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers.   

1981  Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated   

1982  Spain is recorded as becoming 16th member of NATO   

1983  Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever.   

1983  Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84   

1984  Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua.   

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

1434  Death of Prokop the great: Hussite general   

1469  Death of Lope de barrientos: Spanish bishop