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Events on the 30th of May in history

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30 May 1970 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
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30 May 1035 Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
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30 May 1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
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30 May 1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
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30 May 1381 Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
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30 May 1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex
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30 May 1416 The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
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30 May 1431 Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
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30 May 1434 Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
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30 May 1434 Battle at Lipany
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30 May 1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
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30 May 1510 During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.
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30 May 1522 French troops driven out of Genoa
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30 May 1527 University of Marburg (Germany) founded
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30 May 1536 King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
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30 May 1536 English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
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30 May 1539 In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
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30 May 1539 Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
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30 May 1574 Henry III becomes King of France.
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30 May 1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
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30 May 1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
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30 May 1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
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30 May 1588 The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
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30 May 1588 Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England
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30 May 1631 Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
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30 May 1631 France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
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30 May 1635 Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
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30 May 1635 Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague
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30 May 1642 From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
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30 May 1646 Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
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30 May 1783 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
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30 May 1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
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30 May 1806 Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
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30 May 1808 Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
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30 May 1814 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: The Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon is exiled to Elba.
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30 May 1814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
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30 May 1815 The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
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30 May 1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
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30 May 1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
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30 May 1832 End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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30 May 1832 The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
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30 May 1832 Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
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30 May 1834 Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law extinguishing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders" in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
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30 May 1842 John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
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30 May 1842 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
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30 May 1845 The Fatel Razack lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first East Indians to the country.
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30 May 1848 Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado in return for $15 million
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30 May 1848 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
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30 May 1848 M
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30 May 1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
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30 May 1854 Territories of Kansas and Nebraska created
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30 May 1854 The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
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30 May 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
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30 May 1858 Hudson Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked
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30 May 1862 Battle of Front Royal, Virginia
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30 May 1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth MS
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30 May 1864 Battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia
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30 May 1864 Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia
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30 May 1866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
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30 May 1866 The opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
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30 May 1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves
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30 May 1868 Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5).
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30 May 1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
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30 May 1876 Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
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30 May 1879 92
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30 May 1879 Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
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30 May 1883 In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
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30 May 1883 Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
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30 May 1889 Brassier invented
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30 May 1889 The brassiere is invented
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30 May 1890 1st Dodger homerun (Dave Foutz)
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30 May 1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 homeruns in 1 baseball game
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30 May 1895 W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
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30 May 1896 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
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30 May 1899 Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
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30 May 1899 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
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30 May 1901 Memorial Day 1st observed in US
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30 May 1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
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30 May 1903 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
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30 May 1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
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30 May 1906 40th Belmont Stakes: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
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30 May 1907 41st Belmont Stakes: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
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30 May 1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
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30 May 1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
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30 May 1908 42nd Belmont Stakes: Joe Notter aboard Colin wins
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30 May 1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
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30 May 1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
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30 May 1909 National Conference on the Negro is held
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30 May 1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
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30 May 1910 44th Belmont Stakes: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
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30 May 1911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 mph (120 km/h)
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30 May 1911 At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
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30 May 1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
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30 May 1913 As managers who have won 1,000 games
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30 May 1913 John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, and Connie Mack
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30 May 1913 First Balkan War: The Treaty of London, is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
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30 May 1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
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30 May 1913 John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games
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30 May 1913 New country of Albania is formed
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30 May 1914 The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
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30 May 1917 Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
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30 May 1921 Lord Dunsany's "If" premieres in London
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30 May 1921 Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WWI, unveiled at Polo Grounds
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30 May 1921 Salzburg Austria votes to join Germany
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30 May 1922 The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
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30 May 1922 Cubs swap Max Flack for Cardinals Cliff Heathcote during the middle of a doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
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30 May 1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
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30 May 1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated
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30 May 1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres
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30 May 1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
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30 May 1925 May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
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30 May 1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
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30 May 1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indianapolis 500
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30 May 1925 Roger Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
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30 May 1927 Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
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30 May 1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
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30 May 1931 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
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30 May 1932 The National Theatre of Greece is founded.
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30 May 1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
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30 May 1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
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30 May 1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
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30 May 1937 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall, Pennsylvania
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30 May 1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
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30 May 1937 Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
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30 May 1937 Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
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30 May 1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers end Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24 over 2 seasons
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30 May 1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die
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30 May 1938 Yankees sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
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30 May 1941 World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
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30 May 1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
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30 May 1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
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30 May 1941 German capture Kreta
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30 May 1942 World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
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30 May 1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WWII
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30 May 1942 Reichsf
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30 May 1942 Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
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30 May 1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
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30 May 1943 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
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30 May 1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
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30 May 1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
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30 May 1946 Braves Bernard Malamud homerun shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
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30 May 1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die
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30 May 1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
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30 May 1948 Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
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30 May 1949 East Germans constitution approved
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30 May 1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
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30 May 1949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 May 1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
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30 May 1951 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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30 May 1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
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30 May 1952 Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite" premieres
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30 May 1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
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30 May 1953 23rd French Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Vic Seixas (6-3 6-4 1-6 6-2)
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30 May 1953 23rd French Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (6-2 6-4)
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30 May 1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
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30 May 1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
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30 May 1954 Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca" premieres
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30 May 1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 May 1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government
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30 May 1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
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30 May 1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
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30 May 1956 Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st homerun out of Yankee Stadium
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30 May 1957 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
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30 May 1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs England at Edgbaston
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30 May 1958 Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
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30 May 1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington
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30 May 1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
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30 May 1959 "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
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30 May 1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
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30 May 1959 "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 performances
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30 May 1959 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality
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30 May 1959 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
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30 May 1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
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30 May 1959 World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
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30 May 1961 Maris hits his 10th and 11th of 61 HRs
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30 May 1961 The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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30 May 1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
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30 May 1961 Roger Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 homeruns
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30 May 1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
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30 May 1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres
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30 May 1963 A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
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30 May 1964 "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
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30 May 1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
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30 May 1964 Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1
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30 May 1964 Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 innings, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & New York's 22 K's in 2nd games
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30 May 1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
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30 May 1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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30 May 1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
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30 May 1965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
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30 May 1966 The former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
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30 May 1966 Launch of Surveyor 1, the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
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30 May 1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
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30 May 1966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
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30 May 1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
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30 May 1967 The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
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30 May 1967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
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30 May 1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
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30 May 1967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
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30 May 1967 Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
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30 May 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
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30 May 1968 University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
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30 May 1968 Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.
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30 May 1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
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30 May 1968 University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown up
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30 May 1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
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30 May 1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao
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30 May 1969 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
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30 May 1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
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30 May 1970 "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
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30 May 1970 Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
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30 May 1971 Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
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30 May 1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; after drinking LSD apple juice
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30 May 1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die
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30 May 1971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
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30 May 1971 Willie Mays hits his 638th homerun, sets National League record of 1,950 runs scored
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30 May 1972 The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
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30 May 1972 In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
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30 May 1972 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport
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30 May 1973 Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup
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30 May 1974 The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
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30 May 1974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4
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30 May 1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
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30 May 1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
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30 May 1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
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30 May 1976 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt
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30 May 1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for the fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
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30 May 1977 Cleveland Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0
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30 May 1979 Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
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30 May 1979 Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
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30 May 1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
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30 May 1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to NYC
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30 May 1980 1st papal visit to France since 1814
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30 May 1980 Tiger relief pitcher John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
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30 May 1980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
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30 May 1980 Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
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30 May 1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
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30 May 1981 Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
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30 May 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
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30 May 1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin NYC after 5 performances
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30 May 1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" closes at Alvin NYC after 5 performances
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30 May 1982 Closest Indianapolis 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
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30 May 1982 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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30 May 1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
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30 May 1983 American League president Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
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30 May 1983 Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
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30 May 1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
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30 May 1984 Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome
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30 May 1984 National League suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
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30 May 1985 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 1
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30 May 1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
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30 May 1986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to average over 170 mph in the Indianapolis 500
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30 May 1986 France performs nuclear test
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30 May 1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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30 May 1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for World Boxing Council heavyweight boxing title
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30 May 1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
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30 May 1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for International Boxing Federation heavyweight boxing title
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30 May 1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
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30 May 1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
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30 May 1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
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30 May 1990 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
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30 May 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,878.56
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30 May 1990 Earthquake (6.4) hits Peru, killing 135
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30 May 1991 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
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30 May 1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
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30 May 1991 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
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30 May 1992 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager and 40 year old
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30 May 1992 New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
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30 May 1992 New York Yankee pitcher Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
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30 May 1992 Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
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30 May 1992 UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
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30 May 1993 Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
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30 May 1993 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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30 May 1996 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
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30 May 1996 Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
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30 May 1996 John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
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30 May 1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
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30 May 1997 Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
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30 May 1998 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
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30 May 1998 Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
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30 May 2003 Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
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30 May 2005 American student Natalee Holloway disappears while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, and caused a media sensation in the United States.
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30 May 2012 Former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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30 May 2013 Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
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