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May 30 in history

208 sourced entries recorded on May 30, from 375 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 823Emperor Saga abdicates the throne, after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Junna, as the 53rd emperor of Japan.source
  • 1096Members of the People's Crusade led by the priest Folkmar from Saxony persecute Jews in Prague, despite the opposition of the local Catholic hierarchy. Local citizens try to hide them in their own houses. Later the Jews manage to escape to safety in neighboring villages, but are slaughtered by the hundreds.source
  • 1123The Venetian fleet arrives at Ascalon and instantly sets about attacking the Fatimid fleet. The Egyptians fall into a trap, caught between two Venetian squadrons, and are destroyed or captured. While sailing back to Acre, the Venetians capture a merchant-fleet of ten richly laden vessels.source
  • 1213Battle of Damme: The English fleet under William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, destroys a French fleet off the Belgian port in the first major victory for the fledgling Royal Navy.source
  • 1225King Louis VII of France meets in Péronne with a hermit who claims to be Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and the Latin Emperor of Constantinople, who had not been seen in public since being taken a prisoner in Bulgaria. Concluding that the hermit is an impostor, King Louis gives the man three days to leave France, and the "false Baldwin" instead leads a rebellion, eventually losing and being executed.source
  • 1232Anthony of Padua is canonized by Pope Gregory IX at Spoleto, less than a year after his death. He becomes the patron saint of lost items.source
  • 1306The English Parliament meets at Westminster in a one-day session, on orders of King Edward I, a week after Whit Sunday and passes a five percent tax on "citizens and burgesses and communities of all the cities and boroughs of the realm and the tenants of our demesne."source
  • 1323King Edward II of England makes a 13-year truce with Scotland at York. Despite the truce, Edward refuses to accept Robert the Bruce as ruler of an independent Scottish kingdom.source
  • 1323Less than three months after Harclay's execution, King Edward II agrees to a thirteen-year truce with Scotland.source
  • 1371Pope Gregory XI names 12 new Roman Catholic cardinals to supplement the existing 20 living cardinals. The new cardinals at Avignon include Robert de Geneve who will become the first antipope of the Western Schism.source
  • 1378The War of Chioggia begins on the Italian peninsula between the navies of the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa, with a surprise attack on 11 Genoese galleys at Capo d'Anzio by a 10-galley fleet led by Venetian Admiral Vettor Pisani. Venice captures five of the Genoese ships and takes their crews as prisoners of war, including the Genoese admiral, Luigi de' Fieschi.source
  • 1407Ming–Việt War: In a last ditch effort to stop the Chinese invasion, the Vietnamese forces fight a final battle at Thanh Hóa, where the Emperor Hon Han Thuong had moved his capital. The Viet force loses 10,000 additional soldiers and the Vietnamese royal family flees during the retreat.source
  • 1416The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague for heresy at the Council of Constance.source
  • 1434Hussite Wars – Battle of Lipany: The Catholics and Utraquists defeat the Taborites, ending the Hussite Wars.source
  • 1445At a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, the coronation of Margaret of Anjou as Queen consort of England takes place before John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury.source
  • 1460Demetrios Palaiologos, the ruler of the Byzantine despotate of Morea in southern Greece surrenders the capital, Mystras,to the Ottomans. The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II grants some islands in the Aegean Sea to Palaiologos, and he lives for several years in relative comfort.source
  • 1468After invading Syria, Shah Suwar, the Ottoman Governor of Dulkadir, triumphs in battle over various Mamluk Syrian governors and emirs and captures Kulaksiz. The Governor of Damascus, Uzbek Bey, is seriously wounded but manages to escape.source
  • 1484The coronation of the 13-year-old son of the late Louis XI, Charles the Affable, as King of France takes place at Reims.source
  • 1484The coronation of the Charles VIII as King of France at Reims.source
  • 1498Christopher Columbus sets out on his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere from Sanlúcar, Spain.source
  • 1505Poland's Act of Nihil novi is granted by King Alexander I Jagiellon after being passed by the Sejm, making Poland a Nobles' Democracy rather than an absolute monarchy.source
  • 1510the Portuguese abandon Goa to its former ruler Ismail Adil Shahsource
  • 1510Rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated and captured by commander Qiu Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua rebellion.source
  • 1518At the request of Pope Leo X of the Roman Catholic Church, Martin Luther, father of the Protestant Reformation, writes a lengthy summary of his theology.source
  • 1522In Italy, the siege of Genoa, defended by France against the Holy Roman Imperial armies of General Fernando d'Avalos, ends after 10 days as the Imperial troops overrun the city. Since Genoa had refused to surrender, the Imperial troops are permitted to pillage the fallen city.source
  • 1522France loses the siege of Genoa after 10 days against the Holy Roman Imperial armies of General Fernando d'Avalos.source
  • 1536Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour.source
  • 1539Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay, Florida with 600 soldiers, with the goal of finding gold. He also introduces pigs into North America.source
  • 1546Cornelius O'Dea is nominated by Henry VIII as first Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (consecrated 12 July).source
  • 1551Ilie II Rareș, Ruler of Moldavia since 1546, is forced by the Ottoman Empire to abdicate the throne.source
  • 1555King Gustav Vasa introduced mandatory internal passports.source
  • 1555Foundation of Trinity College, Oxford, England, to teach Catholic theology.source
  • 1563At Bornholm, the Danish fleet fires on the Swedish navy, leading to a Danish defeat and precipitating the Northern Seven Years' War.source
  • 1566The Augsburg Imperial Coin Edict issues from the Holy Roman Empire, authorizing a new coin, the thaler. The new unit of money, the Reichsthaler, follows standards providing that the weight should be based on one-ninth of a Cologne mark of silver (the "9 Thaler standard") with each minted coin to weigh 29.23 grams and to contain 25.96 grams of silver. The word thaler, an abbreviation for the "Joachimsthaler" minted from the silver mines at Joachimsthal (modern-day Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), is anglicized to dollar, the name of currencies in many nations.source
  • 1574On the death of King Charles IX of France of a tubercular condition at the Château de Vincennes, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, acts as Regent, until Henry arrives from Poland.source
  • 1591Zutphen is captured by the Dutch and English, under Maurice of Nassau.source
  • 1591Timbuktu is captured by an expedition of Arma people sent by the Saadi ruler of Morocco and led by Judar Pasha.source
  • 1593Christopher Marlowe is stabbed to death in a dispute over a bill at a lodging house in Deptford.source
  • 1619Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, conquers Jayakarta, and renames it Batavia.source
  • 1621June 24 – Huguenot rebellions: Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély – Royal victory.source
  • 1626Wanggongchang Explosion in Beijing, China: a gunpowder factory explosion destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people.source
  • 1631Thirty Years' War: Bavaria and France sign the Treaty of Fontainebleau, forming a secret alliance; however, this does not last long.source
  • 1631Thirty Years' War: France and Bavaria sign the Treaty of Fontainebleau, forming a secret alliance; this is largely negated by autumn.source
  • 1631Gaston of Orléans issues at Nancy a manifesto against Richelieu.source
  • 1631Gazette de France, the first weekly French newspaper, is published.source
  • 1631La Gazette, the first French newspaper, is founded by Théophraste Renaudot.source
  • 1635Thirty Years' War – The Peace of Prague is signed, which ends the German civil war aspect of the conflict.source
  • 1645May 20–30 - Yangzhou massacre, one of the most destructive massacres in historysource
  • 1646Eighty Years' War: Habsburg Spain and the Dutch Republic sign a temporary cease-fire.source
  • 1723Johann Sebastian Bach assumed the office of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, presenting his first new cantata, Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75, in the St. Nicholas Church on the first Sunday after Trinity.source
  • 1743The Dalecarlian rebellion (1743) breaks out in Sweden.source
  • 1755General Braddock's troops begin a difficult trek across the heavily wooded Allegheny Mountains from western Maryland into the Ohio country.source
  • 1756the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise is formed by merger of the Bishopric of Ardagh with that of Clonmacnoise. Augustine Cheevers serves as first bishop until August when he is succeeded by Anthony Blake.source
  • 1766The Theatre Royal, Bristol, opens in England. Also this year in England, the surviving Georgian Theatre (Stockton-on-Tees) opens as a playhouse.source
  • 1768Eggert Ólafsson and his wife, Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir drowned after their boat capsizes in Breiðafjörður.source
  • 1769Claes Ekeblad appointed Privy Council Chancellery.source
  • 1771Gustav III of Sweden returns to Sweden as monarch.source
  • 1778Benedict Arnold signs U.S. oath of allegiance at Valley Forge.source
  • 1778Benedict Arnold signs the U.S. Oath of Allegiance at Valley Forge.source
  • 1791Robespierre delivers a speech on the abolition of the death penalty but without success.source
  • 1794May 28–June 1 – The Glorious First of June (Battle of Ushant): The British win a crushing tactical victory over the French fleet, but the merchant convoy escorted by the French fleet arrives safely in France.source
  • 1794May 30–June 4 – Battle of Port-Républicain: British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti from the French.source
  • 1796War of the First Coalition - Battle of Borghetto: French troops (28,000 men) under Napoleon Bonaparte force a crossing of the Mincio River and push the Austrian army back towards the Tyrol. The Austrians lose 572 men killed or wounded, while the French lose some 500 men.source
  • 1797English abolitionist William Wilberforce marries Barbara Ann Spooner about six weeks after their first meeting.source
  • 1800Bar of Quebec is founded.source
  • 1803Following Britain's declaration of war on France, Édouard Mortier leads 12,000 troops in an Invasion of Hanoversource
  • 1806Future President of the United States Andrew Jackson fights his third duel, killing lawyer Charles Dickinson following a dispute over payment of a forfeit.source
  • 1806Future President Andrew Jackson fights his second duel, killing Charles Dickinson.source
  • 1812The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.source
  • 1814Napoleonic Wars: The First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning France's borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon is exiled to Elba on the same day.source
  • 1815The Arniston, a British troop transport East Indiaman, is wrecked at Waenhuiskrans near Cape Agulhas while returning from the British campaigns in Ceylonsource
  • 1815The Arniston, an East Indiaman ship repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa, with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.source
  • 1818Church Building Act makes available £1 million for the construction of new Anglican "Commissioners' churches" to serve the expanding urban population.source
  • 1832The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario (Canada) is opened.source
  • 1832The Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity in Germany, ends with no result.source
  • 1832The Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity, ends with no result.source
  • 1834Extinction of religious orders by D. Pedro and his minister Joaquim António de Aguiarsource
  • 1840Parliament considers petitions for Dutch to be made an official language, organised by Ferdinand Augustijn Snellaert and Jean-Baptist David.source
  • 1845Fatel Razack (Fath Al Razack, 'Victory of Allah the Provider', قتح الرزاق) is the first ship to bring indentured labourers from India to Trinidad and Tobago, landing in the Gulf of Paria with 227 immigrants.source
  • 1848The Prudential Mutual Assurance Investment and Loan Association is established at Hatton Garden in London (England) to provide loans to professional and working people, origin of the multinational life insurance and financial services group.source
  • 1854The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law (replacing the Missouri Compromise of 1820), creating the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory, west of the State of Missouri and the State of Iowa. The Kansas–Nebraska Act also establishes that these two new Territories will decide either to allow or disallow slavery, depending on balloting by their residents (these areas would have been strictly "free territory" under the Missouri Compromise, which allowed slavery in the State of Missouri but disallowed it in any other new state north of latitude 36° 30', which forms most of the southern boundary of Missouri. This prohibition of slavery extended all the way from the western boundary of Missouri to the Pacific Ocean).source
  • 1859Austro-Sardinian War: Battle of Palestro – The Sardinians defeat the Austrian army.source
  • 1866Bedrich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.source
  • 1868Memorial Day is observed in the United States for the first time (it was proclaimed on May 5 by General John A. Logan).source
  • 1876Abdülaziz is deposed by his nephew Murad V as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire on the grounds of mismanaging the economy; 6 days later, Abdülaziz is found dead at the Çırağan Palace in Istanbul and 93 days later Murad is deposed by Abdul Hamid II on the grounds of mental illness. For this reason, in Turkey 1876 is known as the 'Year of the Three Sultans'.source
  • 1876The Ems Ukaz, a secret decree, is issued by Tsar Alexander II of Russia in the German city of Bad Ems, aimed at stopping the printing and distribution of Ukrainian-language publications in the Russian Empire.source
  • 1879New York City's Gilmore's Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.source
  • 1883A rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede, which crushes 12 people.source
  • 1883In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede which crushes 12 people.source
  • 1884Fenian dynamite campaign: Three bombs explode in London: at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department and the Metropolitan Police Service's Special Irish Branch; in the basement of the Carlton Club (a gentlemen's club frequented by members of the Conservative Party); and outside the home of Conservative MP Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn; ten people are injured. A fourth bomb planted at the foot of Nelson's Column fails to explode.source
  • 1886The SS Ly-Ee-Moon sinks off Green Cape, New South Wales, with the loss of 71 persons.source
  • 1888Hong Kong's Peak Tram begins operation.source
  • 1889A tornado crossing West Virginia kills two.source
  • 1890The five-story skylight Arcade opens in Cleveland, Ohio.source
  • 1894The leaders of the Fasci Siciliani are sentenced in Palermo: Giuseppe de Felice Giuffrida to 18 years and Rosario Garibaldi Bosco, Nicola Barbato and Bernardino Verro to 12 years in jail.source
  • 1896Khodynka Tragedy: a crowd crush at Khodynka Field in Moscow kills at least 1,200 of those marking the coronation year of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia.source
  • 1898William Ramsay and Morris Travers make the first of their discovery of noble gases, krypton, followed on 7 June by neon and on 12 July by xenon at University College London.source
  • 1904Alpha Gamma Delta, which becomes an international sorority, is founded by 11 women at Syracuse University.source
  • 1905Japan's Prime Minister Katsura Tarō asks U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to moderate peace discussions to end the Russo-Japanese War.source
  • 1906Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu runs aground on the island of Lundy and becomes a loss.source
  • 1911The first Indianapolis 500 automobile race is held in the United States, won by Ray Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.source
  • 1913First Balkan War: The Treaty of London is signed, ending the war. Greece is granted those parts of southern Epirus which it does not already control, and the independence of Albania is recognised.source
  • 1914Ocean liner RMS Aquitania makes her maiden voyage.source
  • 1919By agreement with the United Kingdom, later confirmed by the League of Nations, Belgium is given the mandate over part of German East Africa (Ruanda-Urundi).source
  • 1922In Washington, D.C., United States, the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.source
  • 1924Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against fascism. A few days later he is kidnapped and murdered in Rome.source
  • 1928Rookie driver Louis Meyer wins his first Indianapolis 500 (he will win that race again, in 1933 and 1936).source
  • 1929United Kingdom general election.source
  • 1930Film director Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October.source
  • 1932German chancellor Heinrich Brüning is dismissed by President von Hindenburg. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government, known as the "Government of the President's Friends", which is openly dedicated to the destruction of democracy and the Weimar Republic. The downfall of Brüning is largely the work of Schleicher, who has been scheming against him since the beginning of May. Schleicher takes the position of Defense Minister in his friend Papen's government.source
  • 1937Memorial Day massacre of 1937: The Chicago Police Department shoot and kill 10 unarmed demonstrators in Chicago.source
  • 1941WWII: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas tear down the Nazi swastika on the Acropolis in Athens and replace it with the Greek flag.source
  • 1942May 30–31 – WWII: Bombing of Cologne – British RAF Bomber Command's "Operation Millennium", its first "1,000 bomber raid", with associated fires make 13,000 families homeless and kills around 475 people, mostly civilians; 3,330 non-residential buildings are destroyed.source
  • 1943The Holocaust: Josef Mengele begins his position as a medical officer in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.source
  • 1944Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne, resigns in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, who later reigns as Prince Rainier III of Monaco.source
  • 1947Eastern Air Lines Flight 605: A Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashes near Bainbridge, Maryland, killing all 53 aboard (49 passengers, 4 crew), in America's worst commercial aviation disaster to this date.source
  • 1948Inga Ravna Eira, Northern Sami language poet, children's writer and translatorsource
  • 1948A dike along the Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon, within minutes; 15 people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.source
  • 19536 June: Singapore celebrated the coronation of Elizabeth II with a week of festivities.source
  • 1957Real Madrid beats Fiorentina 2–0 at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, to win the 1956–57 European Cup (football).source
  • 1958The bodies of unidentified United States soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns, in Arlington National Cemetery.source
  • 1959The 1959 General Elections was held. Lee Kuan Yew was elected as Prime Minister of Singapore.source
  • 1962The 1962 FIFA World Cup begins in Chile.source
  • 1967Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence, which is not recognized.source
  • 1968Bobby Unser wins the Indianapolis 500 automobile race.source
  • 1969May 26–June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second bed-in. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Lennon composes and records the song "Give Peace a Chance" during the event.source
  • 1969Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island.source
  • 1971Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.source
  • 1972The Troubles: The Official Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.source
  • 1972Lod Airport massacre: Three Japanese Red Army members operating on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations kill 26 and injure 80 people at Lod Airport, Israel.source
  • 19731973 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Romania 2-0 at Ruzhdi Bizhuta, Elbasansource
  • 1976Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 km.source
  • 1976An explosion caused by the release of gasoline tears through a block of houses in Pfaffenthal, killing 3 and injuring at least 20.source
  • 1982Indianapolis 500: 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds. Leading to the closest finish to this date, Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps, in what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history.source
  • 1984Liverpool beat Roma 5–2 after penalties in the final of the 1984 European Cup football tournament.source
  • 1988May 29–June 3 – The Moscow Summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev takes place, where the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was finalized.source
  • 1989A car bomb containing 220 lbs of dynamite explodes in Bogotá. It kills 5, not including the intended target Miguel Maza Márquez, and injures over 100.source
  • 1990May 30–31 – 1990 Vrancea earthquakessource
  • 1996The Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, wins a narrow victory in the Israeli general election.source
  • 1996The airline Baires Fly is established.source
  • 1998A second nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-II, is conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).source
  • 1998The second nuclear test — Codename Chagai-II — was conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) on May 30, 1998.source
  • 1998A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.source
  • 2002The formal nine-month rescue and recovery operation at Ground Zero in New York City officially concluded with a solemn, largely silent ceremony, marking the completion of the removal of approximately 1.8 million tons of debris from the site following the September 11 attacks.source
  • 2003Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand resigns following political pressure, and Surya Bahadur Thapa is appointed Prime Minister.source
  • 2003Opposition figures and peace activists, including Aung San Suu Kyi, are arrested in Myanmar.source
  • 20051st Africa Movie Academy Awards take place in Yenagoa.source
  • 2008International Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted in Dublin.source
  • 2015May 30-31 - The 2015 South American Junior Championships in Athletics are held in Cuenca.source
  • 2016Former Chadian President Hissène Habré is sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his tenure from 1982 to 1990, the first time an African Union-backed court has convicted a former ruler of a country within its jurisdiction.source
  • 2018May 28–June 7 – The 2018 Stanley Cup Final are played between the Washington Capitals and the Vegas Golden Knights and won by the former.source
  • 2019July 14 – The 2019 Cricket World Cup is held in England (one match in Wales) with England defeating New Zealand in the final.source
  • 2020The first crewed flight of the SpaceX Dragon 2 (initially scheduled for May 27 but delayed due to weather) is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first crewed spacecraft to take off from U.S. soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011.source
  • 2024Former United States President Donald Trump is found guilty on 34 counts in his hush money trial, the first time any American president had been found guilty of a crime.source
  • 2025Three former paramilitaries are convicted of crimes against humanity for rape and other abuses committed against 36 Achi women in Rabinal from 1981 to 1985 during the Guatemalan Civil War and sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment.source

Births

  • 1010Zhao Zhen, Emperor Renzong of the Song dynasty (died 1063)source
  • 1201Theobald I of Navarre ("the Troubadour"), French-born nobleman (died 1253)source
  • 1423Georg von Peuerbach, Austrian astronomer (died 1461)source
  • 1464Barbara of Brandenburg, Bohemian queen (died 1515)source
  • 1653Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (died 1676)source
  • 1664Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman (died 1754)source
  • 1718Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (died 1793)source
  • 1757Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1844)source
  • 1814Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (died 1876)source
  • 1845King Amadeo I of Spain (died 1890)source
  • 1896Howard Hawks, American director (died 1977)source
  • 1971Idina Menzel, American singer, songwriter and actresssource

Deaths

  • 375Emmelia of Caesarea, Byzantine Eastern Orthodox priestsource
  • 383Isaac of Dalmatia, Byzantine Orthodox priest and saintsource
  • 531Xiao Tong, prince of the Liang Dynasty (born 501)source
  • 727Hubertus, bishop of Liègesource
  • 947Ma Xifan, king of Chu (Ten Kingdoms) (born 899)source
  • 1035Baldwin IV of Flanders ("the Bearded"), French nobleman (born 980)source
  • 1078Gleb Svyatoslavich, Kievan princesource
  • 1159Wladislaus II, the Exile of Poland (born 1105)source
  • 1252King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leonsource
  • 1347John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, English peer (born 1290)source
  • 1373Andronikos IV is arrested, imprisoned, and blinded in one eye on orders of his father, the Emperor John V Palaiologos, who was directed by Sultan Murad to carry out the punishment.Savci, who was completely blinded, is executed on orders of Murad, his father. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands to blind his son.source
  • 1376Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon, French countess regentsource
  • 1416Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (executed) (born 1379)source
  • 143119-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen.source
  • 1431Joan of Arc, French soldier and saint (born c. 1412)source
  • 1431Having been found guilty Joan of Arc is executedsource
  • 1434Prokop the Great, Hussite general (born 1380)source
  • 1469Lope de Barrientos, powerful Castilian bishop and statesman (born 1382)source
  • 1472Jacquetta of Luxembourg, English duchess, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (born 1416)source
  • 1574King Charles IX of France (born 1550)source
  • 1574Charles IX of France (born 1550)source
  • 1593Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (murdered) (born 1564)source
  • 1606Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (executed) (born 1563)source
  • 1640Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (born 1577)source
  • 1640André Duchesne, historian and geographer (born 1584)source
  • 1663Jean Guyon, French colonist (born 1592)source
  • 1701Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon, 17th-century English politician and Jacobite (born 1650)source
  • 1715Roeloff Swartwout, American city founder in New York (born 1634)source
  • 1744Alexander Pope, English writer (born 1688)source
  • 1760Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, German duchess (born 1712)source
  • 1770François Boucher, French painter (born 1703)source
  • 1778Voltaire, French philosopher (born 1694)source
  • 1867Ramón Castilla, Peruvian military leader and politician, three times President of Peru (born 1797)source
  • 1877Yakub Beg of Yettishar dies having been poisoned in Korla.source
  • 1912Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, of typhoid (born 1867)source
  • 1960Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (born 1890)source
  • 1961Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, ruler of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush.source
  • 1961Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician and soldier, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (born 1891)source
  • 1981Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in Chittagong.source
  • 1981Ziaur Rahman, 45, Bangladeshi military leader and politician, he served two terms as the Chief of Army Staff (1975, 1975–1978), he also served as the president of Bangladesh from 1977 until his death in 1981, he is credited as a solid administrator with pragmatic policies who contributed to the economic recovery of Bangladesh by liberalizing trade and promoting private sector investments.assassinated by members of the Bangladesh Army. Following Rahman's death, Muhammed Abul Manzur led a failed coup d'état. Manzur soon lost the support of his own troops.source
  • 1985Ross Jones, 67, New Zealand rugby player.source