Page 7: Historical Events In May - 30

1945  Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator, executed on May - 30.   

1946  United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die on this day in history.   

1947  Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1949  East Germans constitution approved on May - 30.   

1949  NPS/VHP win first general election in Suriname on May - 30.   

1951  On May - 30 hermann Broch, writer, dies at 64   

1953  George Barnes, cinematographer, dies at 60 on May - 30.   

1954  Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs on this day in history.   

1954  Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67 on May - 30.   

1955  Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government on May - 30.   

1955  On this day in history tunisia begins domestic self governing   

1956  On this day in history bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL   

1956  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) on May - 30.   

1957  Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid on this day in history.   

1957  Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies on May - 30.   

1958  Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington on May - 30.   

1958  US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) on May - 30.   

1959  Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality on this day in history.   

1959  President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua on this day in history.   

1959  World's first hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England on May - 30.   

1959  Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1960  Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70 on May - 30.   

1961  On May - 30 dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die   

1961  Rafael L Trujillo Molina, dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered at 69 on May - 30.   

1962  On May - 30 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)   

1962  Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres on this day in history.   

1964  Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1 on this day in history.   

1964  On this day in history leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66   

1965  On this day in history france performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)   

1965  Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins on this day in history.   

1965  On May - 30 vivian Malone, is first black to graduate from University of Alabama   

1966  On this day in history 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam   

1966  On May - 30 uS launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon   

1967  Biafra declares independence from Nigeria on May - 30.   

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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 this day in history.   

1423  Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461) was born on this day in history.   

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  On May - 30 birth of wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized   

1623  John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686) was born on May - 30.   

1653  On this day in history birth of claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)   

0727  Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72 on this day in history.   

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

1159  On May - 30 death of wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)   

1252  On May - 30 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  On this day in history death of joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)   

1434  On May - 30 death of prokop the Great, Hussite general   

1469  Death of Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop on this day in history.