Historical Events on May 30

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• 1035 Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders

• 1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
• 1381 English peasant uprising begins in Essex
• 1416 Jerome of Prague burned at the stake for heresy by church Council of Constance

• 1434 The Battle of Lipany (also called the Battle of Česky Brod), ending Taborites influence

• 1522 French troops driven out of Genoa
• 1527 University of Marburg (Germany) founded

• 1564 (-31st) The first battle of Öland (between the islands of Gotland and Öland): Lübeck & Denmark beat Sweden

• 1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
• 1584 Earl Adolf of Nieuwenaar and Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
• 1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrender to Dutch and English forces under Maurice of Nassau
• 1626 An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people
• 1631 The Treaty of Fontainebleau signed between Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and the Kingdom of France, establishing a secret alliance between them during the Thirty Years' War.

• 1646 Spain & Netherlands sign temporary cease fire
• 1783 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
• 1793 French revolutionary Georges Couthon chosen to be a member of French Committee the Salut Public

• 1814 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
• 1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
• 1822 George Wilson and Joe LaRoche betray a planned slave revolt organized by Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina, confirming an earlier warning from Peter Prioleau. 35 Black people are later hanged. (date is approximate)
• 1832 Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
• 1832 The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened. Oldest continuously operated canal system in North America.

• 1848 Second Battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
• 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between US and Mexico comes into force, giving New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado to the US in return for $15 million
• 1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
• 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
• 1858 Hudson's Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked
• 1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
• 1864 Battle of Bethesda Church [Totopotomoy Creek], cavalry battle fought in Hanover County, Virginia, inconclusive result (US Civil War)
• 1866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
• 1868 "Decoration Day", later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states
• 1876 Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
• 1879 92°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
• 1879 An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
• 1879 Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden

• 1890 First baseman Dave Foutz hits Brooklyn Bridegrooms' (later Dodgers) first ever home run during doubleheader defeats to Chicago Colts at Washington Park, Brooklyn
• 1894 Boston Beaneaters baseball second baseman Bobby Lowe first to hit 4 home runs in MLB game in 20-11 win against Cincinnati Reds

• 1896 First car accident occurs; Henry Wells hits a cyclist in NYC

• 1899 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
• 1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
• 1902 Spanish King Alfonso XII, who was elected as a constitutional monarch, suspends the Cortes, Spain's parliament
• 1903 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
• 1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
• 1904 The Japanese Army capture the City of Dairen after landing troops along the south coast of Manchuria
• 1906 40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20

• 1907 41st Belmont Stakes: George Mountain aboard 3 year old stallion Peter Pan wins
• 1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
• 1908 42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win
• 1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
• 1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
• 1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
• 1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
• 1910 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
• 1911 1st Indianapolis 500: Ray Harroun driving a Marmon Wasp for Nordyke & Marmon Company comes out of retirement, wins inaugural event; average speed: 74.602 mph (120.060 km/h)
• 1912 Indianapolis 500: Joe Dawson in the American-manufactured, 4-cylinder National, wins in race record 6:21:06; time is 21:02 faster than previous 1911 record
• 1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
• 1913 Indianapolis 500: Frenchman Jules Goux becomes first non-American to win race in a car owned by French manufacturer Peugeot
• 1913 John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games
• 1913 Treaty of London signed by the Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Balkan League (Serbia, Greece, Kingdom of Bulgaria, and Montenegro) bringing an end to the First Balkan War
• 1914 Indianapolis 500: Frenchman René Thomas driving for Louis Delâge wins ahead of Arthur Duray of Belgium
• 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.
• 1916 Indianapolis 500: Dario Resta accompanied by riding mechanic Bob Dahnke lead 103 of 120 laps to claim victory; only Indy 500 scheduled for less than 500 miles (300)
• 1917 Jazz standard "Dark Town Strutters Ball" by Shelton Brooks recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
• 1921 Indianapolis 500: Tommy Milton accompanied by riding mechanic Harry Franck wins the first of two 500 victories after Ralph DePalma had led for 109 laps
• 1921 Lord Dunsany's "If" premieres in London
• 1921 Memorial to Capt. Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds, NYC
• 1921 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany

• 1922 Cubs and Cardinals trade outfielders between morning and afternoon games of doubleheader; Max Flack goes to St. Louis, Cliff Heathcote heads to Chicago; both get hits for new clubs in the nightcap
• 1922 Indianapolis 500: Jimmy Murphy becomes first driver to win the race from pole position; accompanied by riding mechanic Ernie Olson
• 1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord

• 1923 Indianapolis 500: 1921 champion Tommy Milton becomes first multiple race winner; Howdy Wilcox drives relief for laps 103-151 as Milton's hands are bandaged due to blisters
• 1924 Indianapolis 500: Lora Lawrence Corum starts the race and is relieved midway by Joe Boyer who drives to victory; both drivers credited as "co-winners"
• 1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
• 1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
• 1925 In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
• 1925 Indianapolis 500: Race winner Peter DePaolo becomes first driver to complete 500 miles in under 5 hours, and have an average over 100 mph; Norman Batten drives 21 laps of relief while DePaolo has his hands bandaged due to blisters
• 1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
• 1927 Indianapolis 500: First-time starter George Souders wins by 8 laps, largest margin since 1913; first driver to win full-500 mile race with no help from relief driver or riding mechanic

• 1928 Indianapolis 500: Rookie driver Louis Meyer takes first of 3 career Indy victories after 20 lap duel with Tony Gulotta and Jimmy Gleason
• 1929 Indianapolis 500: Ray Keech takes lead for final time on lap 158 for his first Indy 500 win; car owner Maude A. Yagle is first and only female winning owner in Indy history
• 1930 Indianapolis 500: Polesitter Billy Arnold takes lead on lap 3 and never gives it up; total 198 laps stands as all-time Indy 500 race record; accompanied by riding mechanic Spider Matlock
• 1931 Indianapolis 500: Defending champion Billy Arnold leads for 155 laps before axle trouble; Louis Schneider leads final 34 laps accompanied by riding mechanic Jigger Johnson

• 1932 Indianapolis 500: Fred Frame takes lead for good on lap 152, winning from 27th on starting grid; accompanied by riding mechanic Jerry Houck
• 1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
• 1933 Indianapolis 500: Louis Meyer wins accompanied by riding mechanic Lawson Harris; Mark Billman killed in a crash on lap 79; Lester Spangler and riding mechanic "Monk" Jordan die in a crash on lap 132
• 1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
• 1934 Indianapolis 500: Indianapolis native Bill Cummings accompanied by riding mechanic Earl Unversaw wins race where only 12 of 33 entrants finish
• 1935 Indianapolis 500: Kelly Petillo accompanied by riding mechanic Jimmy Dunham win; Pete DePaolo becomes first to win race separately as a driver (1925) and owner

• 1936 Indianapolis 500: Louis Meyer becomes first 3-time winner of the race; Lawson Harris is first 2-time riding mechanic; famous tradition of serving milk in victory lane commences
• 1937 42nd Men's French Championships: Henner Henkel beats Bunny Austin (6-1, 6-4, 6-3)
• 1937 42nd Women's French Championships: Hilde Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu (6-2, 6-4)
• 1937 Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago Police Department shoot and kill 10 unarmed demonstrators during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States

• 1938 Indianapolis 500: Polesitter Floyd Roberts claims winner's cheque $32,075; car owner Lou Moore is also the chief mechanic
• 1938 New York Yankees sweep arch rival Boston Red Sox, 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium

• 1939 Indianapolis 500: Reigning champion Floyd Roberts is killed in crash on lap 109; Wilbur Shaw wins his second of 3 Indy 500 titles
• 1940 Indianapolis 500: Wilbur Shaw drives same Maserati 8CTF he had driven to victory in 1939; first driver in the history to win at Indy in consecutive years
• 1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
• 1941 British Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
• 1941 Indianapolis 500: Floyd Davis/Mauri Rose win final 500 prior to United States involvement in WWII; final time one car would carry 2 drivers to victory at Indy
• 1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II

• 1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

• 1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
• 1944 Transport number 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
• 1946 Bama Rowell hits a home run in a baseball match - the ball shatters Bulova Clock in Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York
• 1946 Indianapolis 500: Resumes after WWII; George Robson wins by 44 seconds ahead of rookie Jimmy Jackson
• 1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
• 1947 Indianapolis 500: Mauri Rose leads for final 8 laps after confused pit messages with teammate Bill Holland to take the controversial victory; race marred by a 41st lap crash that claims life of Shorty Cantlon
• 1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

• 1949 East German constitution approved
• 1949 Indianapolis 500: After finishing runner-up the previous 2 years, Bill Holland finally wins giving car owner Lou Moore his 3rd consecutive Indy victory; 1947-48 winner Mauri Rose fired after the race for ignoring team orders
• 1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
• 1949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1951 Indianapolis 500: Lee Wallard wins in a Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser that loses its brakes, suffers damaged exhaust pipe and broken shock absorber mounting
• 1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
• 1952 Indianapolis 500: Troy Ruttman at 22 years 80 days sets record for youngest 500 winner in history; his Kuzma-Offenhauser is last dirt track car to win at Indy
• 1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2

• 1953 Indianapolis 500: Labelled "Hottest 500" due to high temperatures, Bill Vukovich wins first of 2 consecutive Indy 500 victories; Carl Scarborough drops out of race, and later dies of heat prostration
• 1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
• 1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
• 1954 Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca" premieres
• 1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan government
• 1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
• 1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
• 1956 Indianapolis 500: Pat Flaherty wins in a Watson-Offenhauser; first 500 to be governed by the United States Automobile Club

• 1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

• 1957 Indianapolis 500: Sam Hanks wins in his thirteenth attempt; first driver to win a $100,000 single-race payday
• 1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
• 1958 Indianapolis 500: Jimmy Bryan wins a race best known for a massive first-lap, 15-car pileup that results in death of fan-favourite driver Pat O'Connor
• 1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
• 1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)

• 1959 58th Men's French Championships: Nicola Pietrangeli beats Ian Vermaak (3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1)
• 1959 58th Women's French Championships: Christine Truman beats Zsuzsi Kormoczy (6-4, 7-5)

• 1959 Indianapolis 500: Rodger Ward earns first of 2 career Indy 500 victories as a record 16 cars complete full 500 miles; for the first time all cars required to have roll bars
• 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom)
• 1959 President Luis Somoza Debayle ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
• 1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
• 1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
• 1960 Indianapolis 500: Greatest two-man duel in race history; winner Jim Rathmann and Rodger Ward battle out then-record 29 lead changes until Ward slows with tire trouble

• 1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die

• 1961 Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
• 1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)

• 1962 Indianapolis 500: Rodger Ward and Len Sutton finish 1st-2nd for Leader Cards Racing; Parnelli Jones breaks 150 mph (240 km/h) barrier in qualifying
• 1963 Indianapolis 500: Parnelli Jones takes his only Indy 500 win despite his car spewing oil from a cracked overflow tank for many laps
• 1964 "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
• 1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
• 1964 French Championships Men's Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Nicola Pietrangeli (6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5)

• 1964 Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & NY's 22 K's in 2nd games
• 1964 Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt wins but race primarily remembered for fiery 7-car accident resulting in deaths of Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald; last race won by a front-engined "roadster"
• 1964 The Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1 in the United States
• 1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
• 1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
• 1965 Vivian Malone is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
• 1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam

• 1966 The Beatles release single "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" in US; "Rain" featured experimental studio tricks of slowed down bass and drums tracks, and backwards vocals in the fade out
• 1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon

• 1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
• 1967 Republic of Biafra, a predominantly Igbo secessionist state in eastern Nigeria, is founded by Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu

• 1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"

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