About May 30
May 30, 2025 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.
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Gemini is the sun 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.
What Happened On May 30
- 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.
- 1635 –Thirty Years’ War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed.
- 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.
- 1832 –End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- 1854 –The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
- 1871 –The Paris Commune falls.
- 1876 –Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
- 1879 –New York, New York’s Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
- 1899 –Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
- 1911 –At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
- 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.
- 1917 –Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
- 1941 –World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika.
- 1966 –Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
- 1989 –Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high “Goddess of Democracy” statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
- 1998 –A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
- 1998 –Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
- 2003 –Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
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