May 30
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic in Rouen, France.
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 Kansas and Nebraska were established.
1922 - The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated by Chief Justice and former President William Howard Taft.
1937 - Ten people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago.
1958 - Unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 - The American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a journey to Mars.
1982 - Spain became the 16th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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, New Jersey, 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 killed an estimated 5,000 and injured thousands more.
2002 - A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the agonizing cleanup at ground zero in New York, nearly nine months after the 9/11 attacks.
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.
2017 - The Pentagon scored an important success in a test of its oft-criticized missile defense program, destroying a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean with an interceptor.
2017 - Actress/comedian Kathy Griffin appeared in a brief video holding what looked like President Donald Trump's bloody, severed head; the comic ended up apologizing, acknowledging that she had gone way too far.
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. 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.
2021 - A restrictive voting bill in Texas that was on the verge of reaching Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk failed to pass after Democrats walked out of the House chamber before a midnight deadline. (After months of Democratic protests, the Republican-controlled legislature would enact sweeping changes in the state’s election code in August.)
Birthdays
22 - Jared Gilmore (actor)
23 - Sean Giambrone (actor)
25 - Jake Short (actor)
26 - Alexxis Lemire (actress)
33 - Ailee (singer)
35 - Javicia Leslie (actress)
41 - Blake Bashoff (actor)
47 - Cee Lo Green (rapper)
51 - Idina Menzel (actress/singer)
51 - John Ross Bowie (actor)
58 - Mark Sheppard (actor)
58 - Wynonna Judd (singer)
60 - Tonya Pinkins (actress)
61 - Ralph Carter (actor)
64 - Ted McGinley (actor)
67 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts (professional wrestler)
69 - Colm Meaney (actor)
71 - Stephen Tobolowsky (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 30
1911 - The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun, with an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.
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 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators recorded his 113th career shutout. It was also the final shutout of his career.
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.
1935 - Babe Ruth played in his final major league baseball game for the Boston Braves, leaving after the first inning in the first game of a double header against the Philadelphia Phillies. (Ruth announced his retirement three days later.)
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.
1970 - Voting for baseball's All-Star game was returned to the fans.
1971 - Willie Mays hit his 638th home run. He set a National League record of 1,950 runs scored.
1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of what would be his record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
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.
2021 - Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 for skipping a news conference after her first-round victory at the French Open. (Osaka, who said she experienced anxiety before speaking to the media, would withdraw from the tournament before her next match.)Today
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake as a heretic in Rouen, France.
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 Kansas and Nebraska were established.
1922 - The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated by Chief Justice and former President William Howard Taft.
1937 - Ten people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago.
1958 - Unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 - The American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a journey to Mars.
1982 - Spain became the 16th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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, New Jersey, 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 killed an estimated 5,000 and injured thousands more.
2002 - A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the agonizing cleanup at ground zero in New York, nearly nine months after the 9/11 attacks.
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.
2017 - The Pentagon scored an important success in a test of its oft-criticized missile defense program, destroying a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean with an interceptor.
2017 - Actress/comedian Kathy Griffin appeared in a brief video holding what looked like President Donald Trump's bloody, severed head; the comic ended up apologizing, acknowledging that she had gone way too far.
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. 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.
2021 - A restrictive voting bill in Texas that was on the verge of reaching Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk failed to pass after Democrats walked out of the House chamber before a midnight deadline. (After months of Democratic protests, the Republican-controlled legislature would enact sweeping changes in the state’s election code in August.)
Birthdays
22 - Jared Gilmore (actor)
23 - Sean Giambrone (actor)
25 - Jake Short (actor)
26 - Alexxis Lemire (actress)
33 - Ailee (singer)
35 - Javicia Leslie (actress)
41 - Blake Bashoff (actor)
47 - Cee Lo Green (rapper)
51 - Idina Menzel (actress/singer)
51 - John Ross Bowie (actor)
58 - Mark Sheppard (actor)
58 - Wynonna Judd (singer)
60 - Tonya Pinkins (actress)
61 - Ralph Carter (actor)
64 - Ted McGinley (actor)
67 - Jake "The Snake" Roberts (professional wrestler)
69 - Colm Meaney (actor)
71 - Stephen Tobolowsky (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 30
1911 - The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun, with an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.
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 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators recorded his 113th career shutout. It was also the final shutout of his career.
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.
1935 - Babe Ruth played in his final major league baseball game for the Boston Braves, leaving after the first inning in the first game of a double header against the Philadelphia Phillies. (Ruth announced his retirement three days later.)
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.
1970 - Voting for baseball's All-Star game was returned to the fans.
1971 - Willie Mays hit his 638th home run. He set a National League record of 1,950 runs scored.
1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of what would be his record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
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.
2021 - Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 for skipping a news conference after her first-round victory at the French Open. (Osaka, who said she experienced anxiety before speaking to the media, would withdraw from the tournament before her next match.)Today
