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 150^th 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, 485,712 hours 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.

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.

May 30 Historical Events

• 1832 –
  The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
• 1876 –
  Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
• 1883 –
  In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
• 1899 –
  Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• 1914 –
  The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika.
• 1942 –
  World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
• 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.
• 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 in France.
• 1998 –
  Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.

Who were born on May 30?

• 1858 –
  Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
• 1886 –
  Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
• 1922 –
  Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1928 –
  Agnès Varda, French director
• 1935 –
  Lee Gunther, American television producer and editor (d. 1998)
• 1974 –
  Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
• 1975 –
  Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player
• 1978 –
  Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1982 –
  James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player
• 1984 –
  Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer

Who died on May 30?

• 1434 –
  Prokop the Great, Hussite general
• 1469 –
  Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop (b. 1382)
• 1696 –
  Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
• 1770 –
  François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
• 1925 –
  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
• 1926 –
  Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
• 1953 –
  Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
• 1994 –
  Ezra Taft Benson, American religious figure (b. 1899)
• 2005 –
  Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
• 2011 –
  Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)