What are the important events that happened on May 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 30: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 30 is the 151st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 17, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,717,027,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectapentacontahenagon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 244 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,178 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 30 Historical Events
- 70 –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 kilometers.
- 1431 –Hundred Years’ War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Because of this the Catholic Church remember this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
- 1539 –In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
- 1574 –Henry III becomes King of France.
- 1642 –From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
- 1815 –The East Indiaman ship Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
- 1834 –Joaquim António de Aguiar issue a law extinguishing “all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders”, earning him the nickname of “The Friar-Killer”.
- 1942 –World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
- 1961 –Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- 1966 –Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
Who were born on May 30?
- 1922 –Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
- 1936 –Keir Dullea, American actor
- 1939 –Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
- 1946 –Allan Chapman, English historian of science
- 1950 –Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
- 1964 –Wynonna Judd, American country singer
- 1974 –Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
- 1976 –Rasho Nesterovič, Slovenian basketball player
- 1978 –Cyrus King, American actor
- 1983 –Jennifer Ellison, English actress, model, singer
Who died on May 30?
- 1159 –Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
- 1252 –King Ferdinand III of Castile (b. 1199)
- 1868 –Okita Sōji, Japanese law enforcement figure (b. 1823)
- 1918 –Georgi Plekhanov, Russian Marxist theoretician (b. 1856)
- 1964 –Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
- 1976 –Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
- 1994 –Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
- 1995 –Lofty England, English automotive engineer (b. 1911)
- 2005 –Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
- 2006 –David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
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