About May 30
May 30, 2024 is the 151st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 215 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 244 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 30
- 70 –Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers.
- 1631 –Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.
- 1642 –From this date all honors granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
- 1806 –Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
- 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.
- 1832 –The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
- 1842 –John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
- 1854 –The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
- 1883 –In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
- 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.
- 1922 –In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
- 1948 –A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
- 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.
- 1966 –Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
- 1971 –Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
- 1972 –The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
- 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.
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