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 150th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 17, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,748,563,200 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 ‘hectapentacontagon’ day.
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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 263 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 4,543 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 30 Historical Events
- 1536 –King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
- 1631 –Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.
- 1642 –From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
- 1883 –In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
- 1925 –May 30 Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shot 13 protesting workers to death.
- 1941 –World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika.
- 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.
- 1966 –Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.
- 1998 –A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
Who were born on May 30?
- 1423 –Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
- 1768 –Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French cavalry commander (d. 1815)
- 1844 –Félix Arnaudin, French poet and folklorist (d. 1921)
- 1901 –Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)
- 1912 –Erich Bagge, German physicist (d. 1996)
- 1963 –Helen Sharman, British chemist, the first Briton in space
- 1968 –Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author
- 1976 –Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
- 1979 –Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 –Jordan Palmer, American football player
Who died on May 30?
- 1593 –Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
- 1829 –Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French military figure (b. 1774)
- 1961 –Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, Dominican Republic dictator (b. 1891)
- 1964 –Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
- 1994 –Marcel Bich, French industrialist (b. 1914)
- 2000 –Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
- 2006 –David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
- 2008 –Noel Moore, British civil servant (b. 1928)
- 2010 –Joan Rhodes, British performer and stuntwoman (b. 1921)
- 2011 –Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
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