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, 29,142,720 minutes 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
- 1434 –Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
- 1631 –Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.
- 1806 –Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
- 1832 –The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
- 1871 –The Paris Commune falls.
- 1876 –Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
- 1917 –Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
- 1922 –In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
- 1966 –Launch of Surveyor 1 the first US spacecraft to achieve landing on an extraterrestrial body.
- 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.
Who were born on May 30?
- 1846 –Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
- 1899 –Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
- 1901 –Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)
- 1919 –René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
- 1929 –Georges Gilson, French Catholic bishop
- 1935 –Lee Gunther, American television producer and editor (d. 1998)
- 1973 –Leigh Francis, British comedian
- 1975 –Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
- 1978 –Eric Searle American Musician
- 1979 –Kugimiya Rie, Japanese voice actress
Who died on May 30?
- 1159 –Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
- 1770 –François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
- 1941 –King Prajadhipok of Thailand (b. 1893)
- 1971 –Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
- 2000 –Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
- 2005 –Tomasz Pacyński, Polish writer (b. 1958)
- 2006 –David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
- 2008 –Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
- 2010 –Peter Orlovsky, American poet (b. 1933)
- 2011 –Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
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