May 30 birthdays & history

Famous people born on May 30

• 1814Mikhail Bakunin, Russian philosopher and theorist
• 1980Steven Gerrard, English international footballer and manager
• 1934Alexei Leonov, Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut
• 1908Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1909Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader
• 1928Agnès Varda, Belgian-French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1846Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler
• 1975CeeLo Green, American singer-songwriter
• 1896Howard Hawks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1912Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on May 30

• 1536Jane Seymour, a former lady-in-waiting, married King Henry VIII, becoming the queen consort of England.
• 1845The Fatel Razack, coming from India, lands in the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying the first Indians to the country.
• 1866Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.
• 1876The secret decree of Ems Ukaz is issued by Russian Tsar Alexander II in the German city of Bad Ems, aimed at stopping the printing and distribution of Ukrainian-language publications in the Russian Empire.
• 1899Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• 1911At 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.
• 1914RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.
• 1914The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
• 1922The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of the sixteenth U.S. president Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.
• 1959The Auckland Harbour Bridge officially opened, connecting the suburbs of Saint Marys Bay and Northcote in Auckland, New Zealand, across Waitematā Harbour.
• 2005American student Natalee Holloway disappeared on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.
• 2020Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercial mission to the International Space Station.

Also observed on May 30

• Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967. (Anguilla)
• Canary Islands Day (Spain)
• Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Kaamatan, harvest festival in the state of Sabah and the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia)
• Mother's Day (Nicaragua)
• Statehood Day (Croatia)