May 30
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic.
1536 - King Henry VIII of England married his third wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after he had his second wife, Anne Boleyn, executed.
1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.
1854 - The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1883 - Twelve people were trampled to death in a stampede sparked by a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing.
1922 - The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft in a ceremony also attended by President Warren G. Harding and Robert Todd Lincoln.
1937 - Ten people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.
1943 - During World War II, American troops secured the Aleutian island of Attu from Japanese forces.
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 - The American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a journey to Mars.
1982 - Spain became NATO's 16th member.
1989 - Student protesters in Beijing erected a “Goddess of Democracy” statue in Tiananmen Square (the statue was destroyed in the Chinese government’s crackdown).
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.
1997 - Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka. (The case inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.)
1998 - An earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (and subsequent aftershocks) killed an estimated 5,000 and injured at least 1,500. A quake on Feb. 4 in the same area had killed about 2,300.
2002 - A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2005 - Vice President Dick Cheney predicted the Iraq war would end before the Bush administration left office, saying "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency," on CNN's "Larry King Live.".
2006 - The FBI said it had found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm.
2006 - A jury in Rockville, Maryland, convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.
2011 - Germany announced plans to abandon nuclear power over the next 11 years, outlining an ambitious strategy in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster to replace atomic power with renewable energy sources.
2015 - Vice President Joe Biden's son, former Delaware attorney general Beau Biden, died at age 46 after a battle with brain cancer.
2020 - Tense protests over the death of George Floyd and other police killings of Black people grew across the country; racially diverse crowds held mostly peaceful demonstrations in dozens of cities, though many later descended into violence, with police cars set ablaze. The National Guard was deployed outside the White House, where crowds taunted law enforcement officers, who fired pepper spray. A fourth day of violence in Los Angeles prompted the mayor to impose a citywide curfew and call in the National Guard. Street protests in New York City over police killings spiraled into the city’s worst day of unrest in decades, as fires burned, windows were smashed and confrontations between demonstrators and officers flared.
2020 - A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral to carry two Americans to the International Space Station; it ushered in a new era of commercial space travel.
Birthdays
21 - Jared Gilmore (actor)
22 - Sean Giambrone (actor)
24 - Jake Short (actor)
34 - Javicia Leslie (actress)
35 - Jennifer Winget (actress)
40 - Blake Bashoff (actor)
40 - Remy Ma (rapper)
46 - Cee Lo Green (rapper)
50 - Idina Menzel (actress)
50 - John Ross Bowie (actor)
57 - Mark Sheppard (actor)
57 - Wynonna Judd (country singer)
59 - Tonya Perkins (actress)
60 - Ralph Carter (actor)
63 - Ted McGinley (actor)
65 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts (professional wrestler)
70 - Stephen Tobolowsky (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 30
1911 - The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun; his average speed was 74.59 mph.
1922 - Max Flack (Chicago Cubs) and Cliff Heathcote (St. Louis Cardinals) were traded for each other between the morning and afternoon games of a Memorial Day twin bill. They played one game for each team.
1927 - Jim Cooney (Chicago Cubs) became the sixth player to record an unassisted triple play against the Pittsburgh Pirates. He caught Paul Waner's line drive, stepped on second to double Lloyd Waner and then tagged Clyde Barnhart coming from first.
1927 - Johnny Neun (Detroit Tigers) became the seventh player to record an unassisted triple play.
1927 - Walter Johnson recorded his 113th career shutout. It was also the final shutout of his career.
1935 - Babe Ruth, as a member of the Boston Braves, appeared in is final major league baseball game.
1937 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell got his 24th consecutive victory.
1955 - Bob Sweikert won the Indianapolis 500. During the race Bill Vukovich hit the 3-car pileup of Al Keller, Johnny Boyd, and Rodger Ward. He was killed when his car became airborne and went out of the course, landing upside down and on fire.
1967 - New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford announces his retirement from baseball.
1970 - Voting for baseball's All-Star game was returned to the fans.
1971 - Willie Mays hit his 638th career home run and set a National League record with his 1,950th run scored.
1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
1983 - Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was suspended for one week for his public criticism of umpires.
1985 - The Edmonton Oilers defeat the Philadelphia Flyers in five games to win the Stanley Cup.
1986 - Barry Bonds makes his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1987 - Eric Davis (Cincinnati Reds) became the first National League player to hit three grand slams in a month and set a National League record of 19 home runs in April and May.
1992 - Scott Sanderson (New York Yankees) became the 9th pitcher to beat all 26 teams.
2001 - Barry Bonds hit two home runs to move into 11th place on the major league career list with 522.
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic.
1536 - King Henry VIII of England married his third wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after he had his second wife, Anne Boleyn, executed.
1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.
1854 - The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1883 - Twelve people were trampled to death in a stampede sparked by a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing.
1922 - The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft in a ceremony also attended by President Warren G. Harding and Robert Todd Lincoln.
1937 - Ten people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.
1943 - During World War II, American troops secured the Aleutian island of Attu from Japanese forces.
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 - The American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a journey to Mars.
1982 - Spain became NATO's 16th member.
1989 - Student protesters in Beijing erected a “Goddess of Democracy” statue in Tiananmen Square (the statue was destroyed in the Chinese government’s crackdown).
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.
1997 - Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka. (The case inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.)
1998 - An earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (and subsequent aftershocks) killed an estimated 5,000 and injured at least 1,500. A quake on Feb. 4 in the same area had killed about 2,300.
2002 - A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2005 - Vice President Dick Cheney predicted the Iraq war would end before the Bush administration left office, saying "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency," on CNN's "Larry King Live.".
2006 - The FBI said it had found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm.
2006 - A jury in Rockville, Maryland, convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.
2011 - Germany announced plans to abandon nuclear power over the next 11 years, outlining an ambitious strategy in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster to replace atomic power with renewable energy sources.
2015 - Vice President Joe Biden's son, former Delaware attorney general Beau Biden, died at age 46 after a battle with brain cancer.
2020 - Tense protests over the death of George Floyd and other police killings of Black people grew across the country; racially diverse crowds held mostly peaceful demonstrations in dozens of cities, though many later descended into violence, with police cars set ablaze. The National Guard was deployed outside the White House, where crowds taunted law enforcement officers, who fired pepper spray. A fourth day of violence in Los Angeles prompted the mayor to impose a citywide curfew and call in the National Guard. Street protests in New York City over police killings spiraled into the city’s worst day of unrest in decades, as fires burned, windows were smashed and confrontations between demonstrators and officers flared.
2020 - A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral to carry two Americans to the International Space Station; it ushered in a new era of commercial space travel.
Birthdays
21 - Jared Gilmore (actor)
22 - Sean Giambrone (actor)
24 - Jake Short (actor)
34 - Javicia Leslie (actress)
35 - Jennifer Winget (actress)
40 - Blake Bashoff (actor)
40 - Remy Ma (rapper)
46 - Cee Lo Green (rapper)
50 - Idina Menzel (actress)
50 - John Ross Bowie (actor)
57 - Mark Sheppard (actor)
57 - Wynonna Judd (country singer)
59 - Tonya Perkins (actress)
60 - Ralph Carter (actor)
63 - Ted McGinley (actor)
65 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts (professional wrestler)
70 - Stephen Tobolowsky (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 30
1911 - The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun; his average speed was 74.59 mph.
1922 - Max Flack (Chicago Cubs) and Cliff Heathcote (St. Louis Cardinals) were traded for each other between the morning and afternoon games of a Memorial Day twin bill. They played one game for each team.
1927 - Jim Cooney (Chicago Cubs) became the sixth player to record an unassisted triple play against the Pittsburgh Pirates. He caught Paul Waner's line drive, stepped on second to double Lloyd Waner and then tagged Clyde Barnhart coming from first.
1927 - Johnny Neun (Detroit Tigers) became the seventh player to record an unassisted triple play.
1927 - Walter Johnson recorded his 113th career shutout. It was also the final shutout of his career.
1935 - Babe Ruth, as a member of the Boston Braves, appeared in is final major league baseball game.
1937 - Pitcher Carl Hubbell got his 24th consecutive victory.
1955 - Bob Sweikert won the Indianapolis 500. During the race Bill Vukovich hit the 3-car pileup of Al Keller, Johnny Boyd, and Rodger Ward. He was killed when his car became airborne and went out of the course, landing upside down and on fire.
1967 - New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford announces his retirement from baseball.
1970 - Voting for baseball's All-Star game was returned to the fans.
1971 - Willie Mays hit his 638th career home run and set a National League record with his 1,950th run scored.
1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
1983 - Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was suspended for one week for his public criticism of umpires.
1985 - The Edmonton Oilers defeat the Philadelphia Flyers in five games to win the Stanley Cup.
1986 - Barry Bonds makes his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1987 - Eric Davis (Cincinnati Reds) became the first National League player to hit three grand slams in a month and set a National League record of 19 home runs in April and May.
1992 - Scott Sanderson (New York Yankees) became the 9th pitcher to beat all 26 teams.
2001 - Barry Bonds hit two home runs to move into 11th place on the major league career list with 522.
