Page 4: Historical Events In May - 30

1879  Colin Blythe, cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I) on May - 30.   

1883  On May - 30 a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge is in danger of collapsing triggers a stampede that kills 12   

1883  On May - 30 rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12   

1883  Riccardo Zandonai, composer on this day in history.   

1887  On May - 30 alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer   

1888  On May - 30 james A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)   

1889  The brassiere is invented (good or bad?) on this day in history.   

1889  On this day in history brassier invented   

1890  On May - 30 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)   

1891  Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter on this day in history.   

1894  On this day in history bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game   

1894  Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45) on this day in history.   

1895  On this day in history w G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days   

1895  On this day in history maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)   

1896  First car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC) on this day in history.   

1896  On this day in history the birth of Howard Hawks, American film director   

1896  1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC) on this day in history.   

1896  On May - 30 howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)   

1899  24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47 on this day in history.   

1901  On May - 30 hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated   

1901  On this day in history cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)   

1902  Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist on this day in history.   

1903  On May - 30 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8   

1903  Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems) on this day in history.   

1904  On this day in history frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader   

1904  Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60) on this day in history.   

1906  40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20 on May - 30.   

1906  On May - 30 william Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30   

1907  On this day in history 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins   

1908  On May - 30 aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System   

1908  First federal workmen's compensation law approved on May - 30.   

1908  On May - 30 paris advocate E Archdeacon is first passenger in a airplane   

1908  The birth of Mel Blanc, Provided many cartoon voices for Warner Brothers on this day in history.   

1908  US Assay Office in Salt Lake City UT authorized on this day in history.   

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1010  Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063) was born on May - 30.   

1220  On this day in history birth of alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63)   

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 this day in history.   

1623  John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686) was born on this day in history.   

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

0727  Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72 on May - 30.   

1035  On this day in history boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035), dies   

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

1252  On this day in history ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon, dies   

1416  On May - 30 death of jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church   

1431  Death of Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412) on this day in history.   

1434  On this day in history death of prokop the Great, Hussite general   

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