Events
Pre-1600
*
70 –
Siege of Jerusalem:
Titus
Titus Caesar Vespasianus ( ; 30 December 39 – 13 September 81 AD) was Roman emperor from 79 to 81. A member of the Flavian dynasty, Titus succeeded his father Vespasian upon his death.
Before becoming emperor, Titus gained renown as a mili ...
and his
Roman legion
The Roman legion ( la, legiō, ) was the largest military unit of the Roman army, composed of 5,200 infantry and 300 equites (cavalry) in the period of the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and of 5,600 infantry and 200 auxilia in the period o ...
s breach the Second Wall of
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a
circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.
*
1381
Year 1381 ( MCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* March 14 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venic ...
– Beginning of the
Peasants' Revolt
The Peasants' Revolt, also named Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising, was a major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. The revolt had various causes, including the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Blac ...
in England.
*
1416 – The
Council of Constance
The Council of Constance was a 15th-century ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418 in the Bishopric of Constance in present-day Germany. The council ended the Western Schism by deposing or accepting the r ...
, called by
Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of
Antipope John XXIII, burns
Jerome of Prague
Jerome of Prague ( cs, Jeroným Pražský; la, Hieronymus Pragensis; 1379 – 30 May 1416) was a Czech scholastic philosopher, theologian, reformer, and professor. Jerome was one of the chief followers of Jan Hus and was burned for heresy ...
following a trial for
heresy
Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, in particular the accepted beliefs of a church or religious organization. The term is usually used in reference to violations of important relig ...
.
*
1431 –
Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War (; 1337–1453) was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English House of Plantagen ...
: In
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population ...
, France, the 19-year-old
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= �an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronat ...
is
burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
*
1434
Year 1434 ( MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* April 14 – The foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral in Nantes, France, is laid ...
–
Hussite Wars
The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars or the Hussite Revolution, were a series of civil wars fought between the Hussites and the combined Catholic forces of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, the Papacy, Eur ...
:
Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the war,
Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate
Taborite forces led by
Prokop the Great.
*
1510
Year 1510 ( MDX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January – Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter.
* ...
– During the reign of the
Zhengde Emperor
The Zhengde Emperor (; 26 October 149120 April 1521) was the 11th Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1505 to 1521.
Born Zhu Houzhao, he was the Hongzhi Emperor's eldest son. Zhu Houzhao took the throne at only 14 with the era name Z ...
,
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...
rebel leader
Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu Yue, ending the
Prince of Anhua rebellion.
*
1536 – King
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...
marries
Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour (c. 150824 October 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII of England from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne ...
, a
lady-in-waiting
A lady-in-waiting or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom sh ...
to his first two wives.
*
1539
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Year 1539 ( MDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January – Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War – Battle of Naungyo, Burm ...
– In
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...
,
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto (; ; 1500 – 21 May, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and ''conquistador'' who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire ...
lands at
Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding
gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile ...
.
*
1574 –
Henry III becomes King of France.
*
1588 – The last ship of the
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada (a.k.a. the Enterprise of England, es, Grande y Felicísima Armada, links=no, lit=Great and Most Fortunate Navy) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, an ar ...
sets sail from
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits w ...
heading for the
English Channel
The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" ( Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), ( Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Ka ...
.
1601–1900
*
1631 – Publication of ''
Gazette de France
''La Gazette'' (), originally ''Gazette de France'', was the first weekly magazine published in France. It was founded by Théophraste Renaudot and published its first edition on 30 May 1631. It progressively became the mouthpiece of one roy ...
'', the first French newspaper.
*
1635 –
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of batt ...
: The
Peace of Prague is signed.
*
1642 – From this date all honors granted by
Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after ...
are retroactively
annulled by Parliament.
*
1806
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon.
* January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall ...
– Future U.S. President
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, he gained fame as ...
kills
Charles Dickinson in a duel.
*
1814 – The
First Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792 extent, and restoring the
House of Bourbon
The House of Bourbon (, also ; ) is a European dynasty of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France. Bourbon kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Spani ...
to power.
*
1815
Events
January
* January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England.
* January 3 – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Pru ...
– The
East Indiaman
East Indiaman was a general name for any sailing ship operating under charter or licence to any of the East India trading companies of the major European trading powers of the 17th through the 19th centuries. The term is used to refer to vesse ...
''
Arniston'' is wrecked during a storm at
Waenhuiskrans
Arniston is a small seaside settlement on the coast of the Overberg region of South Africa, close to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa. Prior to the wreck of , it is also known as Waenhuiskrans, an Afrikaans name meaning literally "Wa ...
, near
Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
*
1834 – Minister of Justice
Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the
Catholic religious order
In the Catholic Church, a religious order is a community of consecrated life with members that profess solemn vows. They are classed as a type of religious institute.
Subcategories of religious orders are:
* canons regular (canons and cano ...
s in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
*
1842 – John Francis attempts to murder
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previ ...
as she drives down
Constitution Hill in London with
Prince Albert.
*
1845 – The ''
Fatel Razack'' coming from
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
, lands in the
Gulf of Paria in
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...
carrying the first
Indians to the country.
*
1854 – The
Kansas–Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 () was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed by the 33rd United States Congress, and signed into law ...
becomes law establishing the
U.S. territories of
Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
and
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
.
*
1866 –
Bedrich Smetana's comic opera ''
The Bartered Bride'' premiered in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
.
*
1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "
Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time after a proclamation by
John A. Logan, head of the
Grand Army of the Republic
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy ( U.S. Navy), and the Marines who served in the American Civil War. It was founded in 1866 in Decatur, ...
(a veterans group).
*
1876 – Ottoman sultan
Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew
Murad V.
*
1883
Events
January–March
* January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States.
* January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.
* Janua ...
– In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/ suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East Rive ...
killed twelve people.
*
1899 –
Pearl Hart
Pearl Hart (born Pearl Taylor; 1871–1955) was a Canadian-born outlaw of the American Old West. She committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies in the United States, and her crime gained notoriety primarily because of her gender. M ...
, a female outlaw of the
Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of
Globe, Arizona.
1901–present
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
– At the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is an automobile racing circuit located in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the home of the Indianapolis 500 and the Verizon 200, and and formerly the home of the United Sta ...
, the first
Indianapolis 500
The Indianapolis 500, formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, and commonly called the Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indi ...
ends with
Ray Harroun in his
Marmon ''Wasp'' becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
*
1913 – The
Treaty of London is signed, ending the
First Balkan War
The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...
;
Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and share ...
becomes an independent nation.
*
1914 – The new, and then the largest,
Cunard
Cunard () is a British shipping and cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc. Since 2011, Cunard and its three ships have been registered in Hamilton, Ber ...
ocean liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships).
Ca ...
, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from
Liverpool
Liverpool is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the List of English districts by population, 10th largest English district by population and its E ...
, England, to New York City.
*
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
– The
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in ...
is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
*
1925 –
May Thirtieth Movement
The May Thirtieth Movement () was a major labor and anti-imperialist movement during the middle-period of the Republic of China era. It began when the Shanghai Municipal Police opened fire on Chinese protesters in Shanghai's International Set ...
:
Shanghai Municipal Police
The Shanghai Municipal Police (SMP; ) was the police force of the Shanghai Municipal Council which governed the Shanghai International Settlement between 1854 and 1943, when the settlement was retroceded to Chinese control.
Initially composed o ...
Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
*
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into ...
–
Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
*
1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar E ...
–
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
:
Manolis Glezos
Manolis Glezos ( el, Μανώλης Γλέζος; 9 September 1922 – 30 March 2020) was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and folk hero, best known for his participation in the World War II resistance.
In Greece, he is best ...
and
Apostolos Santas
Apostolos Santas ( el, Απόστολος Σάντας; 22 February 1922 – 30 April 2011), commonly known as Lakis, was a Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II, most notable for his partici ...
climb the Athenian
Acropolis
An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense. The term is typically used to refer to the Acropolis of Athens, ...
and tear down the German flag.
*
1942 – World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a
90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
*
1943 –
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europ ...
:
Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the ''Zigeunerfamilienlager'' (
Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
family camp) at
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. I ...
.
*
1948 – A dike along the flooding
Columbia River
The Columbia River ( Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia ...
breaks, obliterating
Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
– Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the
Korean War
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respectively, are buried at the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is one of two national cemeteries run by the United States Army. Nearly 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington, Virginia. There are about 30 funerals conducted on weekdays and 7 held on Sa ...
.
*
1959 – The
Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the
Waitemata Harbour Waitemata or Waitematā may refer to:
* Waitematā Harbour, the primary harbour of Auckland, New Zealand
* Waitematā (local board area), a local government area in Auckland, New Zealand
** Waitematā Local Board, a local board of Auckland Council, ...
in
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ...
, New Zealand, is officially opened by
Governor-General
Governor-general (plural ''governors-general''), or governor general (plural ''governors general''), is the title of an office-holder. In the context of governors-general and former British colonies, governors-general are appointed as viceroy t ...
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham
Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, (8 August 1909 – 20 March 1977) was the ninth Governor-General of New Zealand and an English cricketer from the Lyttelton family.
Background and education
Lyttelton was born in Kensington, London ...
.
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
– The long-time Dominican dictator
Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( , ; 24 October 189130 May 1961), nicknamed ''El Jefe'' (, "The Chief" or "The Boss"), was a Dominican dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from February 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He ser ...
is assassinated in
Santo Domingo
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, postal_code = 10100–10699 ( Distrito Nacional)
, webs ...
,
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
.
* 1961 –
Viasa Flight 897 crashes after takeoff from
Lisbon Airport, killing 61.
*
1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the
Buddhist crisis
The Buddhist crisis ( vi, Biến cố Phật giáo) was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign o ...
is held outside
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of
Ngo Dinh Diem.
*
1966 – Former
Congolese Prime Minister,
Évariste Kimba
Évariste Leon Kimba Mutombo (16 July 1926 – 2 June 1966) was a Congolese journalist and politician who served as Foreign Minister of the State of Katanga from 1960 to 1963 and Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 13 Oct ...
, and several other politicians are publicly executed in
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of ...
on the orders of President
Joseph Mobutu.
*
1967 – The
Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
n Eastern Region declares independence as the
Republic of Biafra, sparking a
civil war
A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).
The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government polici ...
.
*
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* J ...
–
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Governm ...
reappears publicly after his flight to
Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the
Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of
May 1968 events in France.
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
J ...
–
Mariner program: ''
Mariner 9
Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars '71 / Mariner-I) was a robotic spacecraft that contributed greatly to the exploration of Mars and was part of the NASA Mariner program. Mariner 9 was launched toward Mars on May 30, 1971 from LC-36B at Cape Canaveral A ...
'' is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ...
.
*
1972 –
The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
* 1972 – In
Ben Gurion Airport
Ben Gurion International Airport, ; ar, مطار بن غوريون الدولي , commonly known by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the main international airport of Israel. Situated on the northern outskirts of the city of Lod, it is th ...
(at the time:
Lod Airport),
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, members of the
Japanese Red Army
The was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001. It was designated a terrorist organization by Japan and the United States. The JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu and Tsuyoshi Okudaira in February 1971 and was most active i ...
carry out the
Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...
– The
Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
–
European Space Agency
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, headquarters = Paris, Île-de-France, France
, coordinates =
, spaceport = Guiana Space Centre
, seal = File:ESA emblem seal.png
, seal_size = 130px
, image = Views in the Main Control Room (120 ...
is established.
*
1979 –
Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to
Knox County Regional Airport
Knox County Regional Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport in the town of Owls Head, Knox County, Maine, United States. It is located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Rockland, Maine. The ...
in
Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
*
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C ...
–
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because t ...
:
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, ...
joins
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two N ...
.
*
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
–
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth ...
: The 10-metre high "
Goddess of Democracy"
statue
A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone. Typical statues are life-sized or close to life-size; a sculpture t ...
is unveiled in
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square (; 天安门广场; Pinyin: ''Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng''; Wade–Giles: ''Tʻien1-an1-mên2 Kuang3-chʻang3'') is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the eponymous Tiananm ...
by student demonstrators.
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...
–
Croatian Parliament
The Croatian Parliament ( hr, Hrvatski sabor) or the Sabor is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Croatia. Under the terms of the Croatian Constitution, the Sabor represents the people and is vested with legislative power. The Sa ...
is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the
National Day of
Croatia
, image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg
, image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg
, anthem = " Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
, image_map =
, map_caption =
, capi ...
.
*
1998 – The 6.5
Afghanistan earthquake shook the
Takhar Province of northern
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is borde ...
with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''), killing around 4,000–4,500.
* 1998 –
Nuclear Testing
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine nuclear weapons' effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability. Testing nuclear weapons offers practical information about how the weapons function, how detonations are affected by ...
: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the
Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a
plutonium
Plutonium is a radioactive chemical element with the symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is an actinide metal of silvery-gray appearance that tarnishes when exposed to air, and forms a dull coating when oxidized. The element normally exh ...
device with yield of 20kt
TNT equivalent.
*
2003
File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A ...
–
Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the
National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2 ...
flees the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
*
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
–
Convention on Cluster Munitions
The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) is an international treaty that prohibits all use, transfer, production, and stockpiling of cluster bombs, a type of explosive weapon which scatters submunitions ("bomblets") over an area. Additionally, ...
is adopted.
* 2008 –
TACA Flight 390
TACA Flight 390 was a scheduled flight on May 30, 2008, by TACA International from San Salvador, El Salvador, to Miami, Florida, United States, with intermediate stops at Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula in Honduras. The aircraft, an Airb ...
overshoots the runway at
Toncontín International Airport in
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa (, , ), formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District ( es, Tegucigalpa, Municipio del Distrito Central or ''Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.''), and colloquially referred to as ''Tegus'' or ''Teguz'', is the capital and largest city ...
,
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
and crashes, killing five people.
*
2012 – Former
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast� ...
n president
Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the
Sierra Leone Civil War.
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
–
Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
passes a law
banning same-sex marriage.
*
2020 – The
Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the
Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers. Since December 196 ...
, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...
since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the
International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest Modular design, modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos ( ...
.
Births
Pre-1600
*
1010 –
Ren Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1063)
*
1201 –
Theobald IV, count of Champagne (d. 1253)
*
1423
Year 1423 ( MCDXXIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* April 27 – Hussite Wars – Battle of Hořice: The Taborites decisively bea ...
–
Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
*
1464 –
Barbara of Brandenburg, Bohemian queen (d. 1515)
*
1580 –
Fadrique de Toledo, 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza (d. 1634)
*
1599
__NOTOC__
Events
January–June
* January 8 – The Jesuit educational plan, known as the ''Ratio Studiorum'', is issued.
* March 12 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by Queen Elizabeth I o ...
–
Samuel Bochart, French Protestant biblical scholar (d. 1667)
1601–1900
*
1623 –
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater
John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater PC (30 May 1623 – 26 October 1686) was an English nobleman from the Egerton family.
Life
He was a son of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater and his wife Lady Frances Stanley. His maternal grandpar ...
, English politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire
There has been a Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire almost continuously since the position was created by King Henry VIII in 1535. The only exception to this was the English Civil War and English Interregnum between 1643 and 1660 when there was no ...
(d. 1686)
*
1686 –
Antonina Houbraken
Antonina Houbraken (30 May 1686 – December 1736) was an 18th-century Dutch draughtswoman who is known for her many topographical drawings of Dutch sites. She also drew landscapes. She is recorded as a skilled portraitist.
Life
Antonina ...
, Dutch illustrator (d. 1736)
*
1718 –
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician,
Secretary of State for the Colonies
The secretary of state for the colonies or colonial secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies.
History
The position was first created in 1768 to deal with the increas ...
(d. 1793)
*
1719
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Carolean Death March begins: A catastrophic retreat by a largely-Finnish Swedish- Carolean army under the command of Carl Gustaf Armfeldt across the Tydal mountains in a blizzard kills around 3, ...
–
Roger Newdigate
Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet (30 May 1719 – 23 November 1806) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1742 and 1780. He was a collector of antiquities.
Early life
Newdigate was born in Arbury, Warwickshire, th ...
, English politician (d. 1806)
*
1757 –
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern p ...
(d. 1844)
*
1768
Events
January–March
* January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London.
* February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House ...
–
Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French general (d. 1815)
*
1797 –
Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann
Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (30 May 1797 – 26 November 1873), also known as Karl Friedrich Naumann, was a German mineralogist and geologist. The crater Naumann on the Moon is named after him.
Life
Naumann was born at Dresden, the ...
, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1873)
*
1800 –
Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose, French cardinal (d. 1883)
*
1814 –
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian philosopher and theorist (d. 1876)
* 1814 –
Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
*
1819 –
William McMurdo, English general (d. 1894)
*
1820 –
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st
Premier of Quebec
The premier of Quebec ( French: ''premier ministre du Québec'' (masculine) or ''première ministre du Québec'' (feminine)) is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec. The current premier of Quebec is François Legault of t ...
(d. 1890)
*
1835 –
Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was cl ...
, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1913)
*
1844
In the Philippines, it was the only leap year with 365 days, as December 31 was skipped when 1845 began after December 30.
Events
January–March
* January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, receives ...
–
Félix Arnaudin, French poet and photographer (d. 1921)
*
1845 –
Amadeo I, Spanish king (d. 1890)
*
1846 –
Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
*
1862
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria.
* January 6 – French intervention in Mexico: French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico.
* January ...
–
Mirza Alakbar Sabir
Mirza Alakbar Sabir ( az, Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir); born Alakbar Zeynalabdin oglu Tahirzadeh (30 May 1862, in Shamakhy – 12 July 1911, in Shamakhy) was an Azerbaijani satirical poet, public figure, philosopher and teacher. He set up a new atti ...
, Azerbaijani philosopher and poet (d. 1911)
*
1869 –
Grace Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1951)
*
1874
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
* January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndash ...
–
Ernest Duchesne, French physician (d. 1912)
*
1875
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of th ...
–
Giovanni Gentile
Giovanni Gentile (; 30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian idealist philosopher, educator, and fascist politician. The self-styled "philosopher of Fascism", he was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for ...
, Italian philosopher and academic (d. 1944)
*
1879
Events January–March
* January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War.
* January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
* Janu ...
–
Colin Blythe
Colin Blythe (30 May 1879 – 8 November 1917), also known as Charlie Blythe, was an English professional cricketer who played Test cricket for the England cricket team during the early part of the 20th century. Blythe was a Wisden Cricketer of ...
, English cricketer and soldier (d. 1917)
* 1879 –
Konstantin Ramul
Konstantin Ramul (30 May 1879 – 11 February 1975) was an Estonian professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institution ...
, Estonian psychologist and academic (d. 1975)
*
1881 –
Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
*
1882 –
Wyndham Halswelle, English runner and soldier (d. 1915)
*
1883
Events
January–March
* January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States.
* January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.
* Janua ...
–
Sandy Pearce
:''Sid Pearce directs here, for his son, the rugby league footballer of the same name, see Joe Pearce''
Sidney Charles Pearce (born 30 May 1883 and died 14 November 1930 Double Bay, New South Wales), better known as Sandy, was a pioneer Austra ...
, Australian rugby league player (d. 1930)
*
1884 –
Siegmund Glücksmann, German soldier and politician (d. 1942)
*
1885
Events
January–March
* January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam.
* January 4 &n ...
–
Villem Grünthal-Ridala
Villem Grünthal-Ridala, born Grünthal-Wilhelm (30 May 1885 in Kuivastu, Muhu, Kreis Ösel, Governorate of Livonia - 16 January 1942 in Helsinki, Finland) was an Estonian poet, translator, linguist and folklorist.Toivo Miljan, ''Historical ...
, Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1942)
*
1886 –
Laurent Barré, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1964)
* 1886 –
Randolph Bourne, American theorist and author (d. 1918)
*
1887 –
Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor and illustrator (d. 1964)
* 1887 –
Emil Reesen
Emil Reesen (30 May 1887 – 27 March 1964) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist. Aside from composing for ballets and operas he was also a noted film score composer. He is remembered mainly for his operetta ''Farinelli'' (1942), w ...
, Danish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1964)
*
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship '' ...
–
Roger Salengro
Roger Henri Charles Salengro (30 May 1890, in Lille – 18 November 1936, in Lille) was a French politician. He achieved fame as Minister of the Interior during the Popular Front (France), Popular Front government in 1936. He committed suicide a ...
, French soldier and politician,
French Minister of the Interior (d. 1936)
*
1892 –
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
*
1894 –
Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician,
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1965)
*
1895 –
Maurice Tate
Maurice William Tate (30 May 1895 – 18 May 1956) was an English cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s and the leader of England's Test bowling attack for a long time during this period. He was also the first Sussex cricketer to take a wicket with ...
, English cricketer (d. 1956)
*
1896 –
Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name."
A ...
, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
*
1897 –
Frank Wise
Frank Joseph Scott Wise Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (30 May 1897 – 29 June 1986) was a Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party politician who was the 16th Premier of Western Australia. He took office on 31 J ...
, Australian politician, 16th
Premier of Western Australia (d. 1986)
*
1898 –
John Gilroy, English artist and illustrator (d. 1985)
*
1899 –
Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1936)
1901–present
*
1901 –
Alfred Karindi
Alfred Karindi (30 May 1901 – 13 April 1969) was an Estonian organist and composer.
Life and work
Alfred Karindi was born on 30 May 1901 in the village of Kõnnu, Illuka Parish. In 1920 he entered the Tartu Higher School of Music where he ...
, Estonian pianist and composer (d. 1969)
* 1901 –
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner (May 30, 1899 – July 9, 1979) was an American writer and actress.
Biography
Skinner was the only child of actor Otis Skinner and actress Maud Durbin. After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College ( ...
, American actress and author (d. 1979)
*
1902 –
Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (d. 1985)
*
1903 –
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter; May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.
Early life
Childhood
Countee LeRoy Porter ...
, American poet and author (d. 1946)
*
1906 –
Bruno Gröning,
German mystic and author (d. 1959)
*
1907 –
Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist and academic (d. 2008)
*
1908 –
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now ...
, Swedish physicist and engineer,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1995)
* 1908 –
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy r ...
, American voice actor (d. 1989)
*
1909 –
Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent (d. 1997)
* 1909 –
Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (d. 1988)
* 1909 –
Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".
From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His conc ...
, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1986)
*
1910 –
Harry Bernstein
Harry Louis Bernstein (May 30, 1910 – June 3, 2011) was a British-born American writer. Bernstein lived in Brick Township, New Jersey.Rich, Motoko"Successful at 96, Writer Has More to Say" ''The New York Times'', April 7, 2007. Accessed June 22 ...
, English-American journalist and author (d. 2011)
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
–
Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 2004)
* 1912 –
Erich Bagge Erich Rudolf Bagge (30 May 1912, in Neustadt bei Coburg – 5 June 1996, in Kiel) was a German scientist. Bagge, a student of Werner Heisenberg for his doctorate and Habilitation, was engaged in German Atomic Energy research and the German nuclea ...
, German physicist and academic (d. 1996)
* 1912 –
Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
* 1912 –
Millicent Selsam
Millicent Ellis Selsam (May 30, 1912 – October 12, 1996) was an American children's author.
Background
Selsam was born May 30, 1912, in New York City. She became interested in biology during her high school years. She took this interest to ...
, American author and academic (d. 1996)
* 1912 –
Joseph Stein, American playwright and author (d. 2010)
*
1914 –
Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th
Yokozuna (d. 1979)
*
1915 –
Len Carney, English footballer and soldier (d. 1996)
*
1916 –
Justin Catayée, French soldier and politician (d. 1962)
* 1916 –
Mort Meskin
Morton Meskin (May 30, 1916 – March 29, 1995)Social Security Death Index, SS# 071-16-1099. was an American comic book artist best known for his work in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, well into the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age.
Early li ...
, American illustrator (d. 1995)
*
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
–
Pita Amor
Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (May 30, 1918 – May 8, 2000), who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet.
Biography
She was born in Mexico City,"Amor, Guadalupe (1920–)." '' Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages'', ...
, Mexican poet and author (d. 2000)
* 1918 –
Bob Evans, American businessman, founded
Bob Evans Restaurants (d. 2007)
*
1919 –
René Barrientos, Bolivian general and politician, 55th
President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
–
Franklin J. Schaffner, Japanese-American director and producer (d. 1989)
*
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
–
Hal Clement, American author and educator (d. 2003)
*
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...
–
Anthony Dryden Marshall
Anthony Dryden Marshall (born Anthony Dryden Kuser; May 30, 1924 – November 30, 2014) was an American theatrical producer and C.I.A. intelligence officer and ambassador. Marshall died on November 30, 2014, at the age of 90.
Early life and fam ...
, American
CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
officer and diplomat (d. 2014)
*
1925 –
John Henry Marks, English physician and author (d. 2022)
*
1926 –
Johnny Gimble, American country/western swing musician (d. 2015)
*
1927 –
Joan Birman, American mathematician
* 1927 –
Clint Walker, American actor and singer (d. 2018)
* 1927 –
Billy Wilson, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1993)
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
–
Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
* 1928 –
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (; born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film ...
, Belgian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
*
1929 –
Georges Gilson, French archbishop
*
1930 –
Mark Birley
Marcus Oswald Hornby Lecky Birley (29 May 1930 – 24 August 2007), known as Mark Birley, was a British entrepreneur known for his investments in the hospitality industry.
Early life
Mark Birley was the son of Sir Oswald Birley (1880–1952), ...
, English businessman, founded
Annabel's (d. 2007)
* 1930 –
Robert Ryman
Robert Ryman (May 30, 1930February 8, 2019) was an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He was best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lived and worked in New York C ...
, American painter (d. 2019)
*
1931 –
Larry Silverstein, American real estate magnate
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...
–
Ray Cooney, English actor and playwright
* 1932 –
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.
She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...
, American accordion player and composer (d. 2016)
* 1932 –
Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, Welsh politician and diplomat,
British Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2018)
*
1934 –
Alexei Leonov
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov. (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during t ...
, Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (d. 2019)
* 1934 –
Alketas Panagoulias
Alketas 'Alkis' Panagoulias ( el, Αλκέτας 'Άλκης' Παναγούλιας; 30 May 1934 – 18 June 2012) was a Greek association football player and manager. He managed the national teams of both Greece and the United States. He also ...
, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2012)
*
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
–
Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
* 1935 –
Guy Tardif, Canadian academic and politician (d. 2005)
*
1936 –
Keir Dullea
Keir Atwood Dullea (; born May 30, 1936) is an American actor. He played astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' and its 1984 sequel, '' 2010: The Year We Make Contact''. His other film roles include ''David and Lisa' ...
, American actor
*
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into ...
–
Christopher Haskins, Anglo-Irish businessman, life peer, and British politician
* 1937 –
Rick Mather, American-English architect (d. 2013)
*
1938
Events
January
* January 1
** The new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime.
** State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France ...
–
Billie Letts, American author and educator (d. 2014)
*
1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
** Third Reich
*** Jews are forbidden to ...
–
Michael J. Pollard
Michael J. Pollard (born Michael John Pollack Jr.; May 30, 1939 – November 20, 2019) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as C.W. Moss in the film ''Bonnie and Clyde'' (1967), which earned him critical acclaim along with nomi ...
, American actor (d. 2019)
* 1939 –
Dieter Quester, Austrian race car driver
* 1939 –
Tim Waterstone, Scottish businessman, founded
Waterstones
*
1940 –
Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian cricket administrator (d. 2015)
* 1940 –
Gilles Villemure
Joseph Hector Gilles Villemure (born May 30, 1940) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played for the New York Rangers and Chicago Black Hawks in the 1960s and 1970s. Villemure was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
Playing ...
, Canadian-American ice hockey player
*
1942 –
John Gladwin, English bishop
* 1942 –
Carole Stone, English journalist and author
*
1943 –
James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
* 1943 –
Anders Michanek, Swedish motorcycle racer
* 1943 –
Gale Sayers
Gale Eugene Sayers (May 30, 1943September 23, 2020) was an American professional football player who was both a halfback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). In a relatively brief but highly productive NFL career, Say ...
, American football player and philanthropist (d. 2020)
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
–
Lenny Davidson, English guitarist and songwriter
* 1944 –
Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
* 1944 –
Stav Prodromou, Greek-American engineer and businessman
*
1945 –
Gladys Horton
The Marvelettes were an American girl group that achieved popularity in the early to mid-1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart (now Cowart Motley), and Georgia Dobbins, who w ...
, American singer (d. 2011)
*
1946 –
Allan Chapman, English historian and author
* 1946 –
Dragan Džajić
Dragan Džajić ( sr-Cyrl, Драган Џајић; born 30 May 1946) is a Yugoslav former footballer from Serbia.
Džajić is widely considered to be one of the best footballers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia, and one of the greatest ...
, Serbian and Yugoslav footballer
*
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country i ...
–
Jocelyne Bourassa, Canadian golfer (d. 2021)
*
1948 –
Johan De Muynck, Belgian former professional road racing cyclist
* 1948 –
Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
* 1948 –
David Thorpe, Australian rules footballer
*
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – Luis ...
–
P.J. Carlesimo
Peter John Carlesimo (born May 30, 1949) is an American basketball coach who coached in both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and college basketball for nearly 40 years. He is also a television broadcaster, having worked with ESPN, '' Th ...
, American basketball player and coach
* 1949 –
Paul Coleridge, English lawyer and judge
* 1949 –
Bob Willis, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2019)
*
1950 –
Bertrand Delanoë, French politician, 14th
Mayor of Paris
The Mayor of Paris (french: Maire de Paris) is the chief executive of Paris, the capital and largest city in France. The officeholder is responsible for the administration and management of the city, submits proposals and recommendations to the ...
* 1950 –
Paresh Rawal, Indian actor, producer, and politician
* 1950 –
Joshua Rozenberg
Joshua Rufus Rozenberg KC (hon) (born 30 May 1950) is a British solicitor, legal commentator, and journalist. Early life and career
He was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and Wadham College, University of Oxford, where he took a ...
, English lawyer, journalist, and author
*
1951 –
Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian Serb singer-songwriter
* 1951 –
Fernando Lugo
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez (; born 30 May 1951) is a Paraguayan politician and laicized Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously he was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop, serving as Bishop of the Dioc ...
, Paraguayan bishop and politician,
President of Paraguay
* 1951 –
Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor, singer, and director
*
1952 –
Daniel Grodnik, American screenwriter and producer
* 1952 –
Kerry Fraser
Kerry Fraser (born May 30, 1952) is a hockey analyst, broadcaster and former senior referee in the National Hockey League. During his career, he called 1,904 regular season games, 12 Stanley Cup Finals, and over 261 Stanley Cup playoff games.
...
, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and sportscaster
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...
–
Jim Hunter, Canadian skier
* 1953 –
Colm Meaney
Colm J. Meaney (; ga, Colm Ó Maonaigh; born 30 May 1953) is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O'Brien in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–1994) and ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He has guest-starred on many TV ...
, Irish actor
*
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangs ...
–
Topper Headon, English drummer and songwriter
* 1955 –
Jacqueline McGlade, English-Canadian biologist, ecologist, and academic
* 1955 –
Caroline Swift, English lawyer and judge
* 1955 –
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín (, approximately ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
His first novel, '' The South'', was published in 1990. ''The Blackwater Lightship'' was shortlist ...
, Irish novelist, poet, playwright, and critic
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
–
Tim Lucas, American author, screenwriter, and critic
*
1957 –
Mike Clayton, Australian golfer
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
–
Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football player
* 1958 –
Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2019)
* 1958 –
Steve Israel, American lawyer and politician
* 1958 –
Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut
* 1958 –
Ted McGinley
Ted Martin McGinley (born May 30, 1958) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jefferson D'Arcy on the television sitcom '' Married... with Children'' and as Charley Shanowski on the ABC sitcom ''Hope & Faith''. He was a late regular ...
, American actor
*
1959 –
Phil Brown, English footballer, coach, and manager
* 1959 –
Randy Ferbey
Randy S. Ferbey (born May 30, 1959) is a Canadian retired curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion. He currently coaches the Rachel Homan women's team.
Born in Edmonton, Alber ...
, Canadian curler
* 1959 –
Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
–
Harry Enfield, English actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1961 –
Bob Yari, Iranian-American director and producer
*
1962 –
Kevin Eastman, American author and illustrator, co-created the ''
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''
* 1962 –
Richard Fuller, English lawyer and politician
* 1962 –
Tim Loughton, English businessman and politician
* 1962 –
Tonya Pinkins
Tonya Pinkins (born May 30, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. Her award-winning debut feature film ''RED PILL'' was an official selection at the 2021 Pan African Film Festival, won the Best Black Lives Matter Feature and Best First Fea ...
, American actress and singer
*
1963 –
Michel Langevin, Canadian drummer and songwriter
* 1963 –
Élise Lucet, French journalist
* 1963 –
Helen Sharman, English chemist and astronaut
*
1964 –
Wynonna Judd, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
* 1964 –
Andrea Montermini, Italian race car driver
* 1964 –
Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...
–
Troy Coker
Troy Coker (born 30 May 1965 in Brisbane) is a former Australian international rugby union player.
He played as a number 8 and was capped 27 times for Australia between 1987 and 1997.
He was a member of the winning Australian squad at the 1991 ...
, Australian rugby player
* 1965 –
Billy Donovan
William John Donovan Jr. (born May 30, 1965) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He has served as head coach of the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) since September 2020 after previously coa ...
, American basketball player and coach
* 1965 –
Iginio Straffi, Italian animator and producer, founded
Rainbow S.r.l.
Rainbow S.p.A. is an Italian studio founded by Iginio Straffi. Viacom (now known as Paramount Global) became a co-owner of the studio in 2011. Rainbow has collaborated with Viacom/Paramount's other company, Nickelodeon, on multiple shows, includ ...
*
1966 –
Thomas Häßler, German footballer and manager
* 1966 –
Stephen Malkmus, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
*
1967 –
Tim Burgess, English singer-songwriter
* 1967 –
Rechelle Hawkes
Rechelle Margaret Hawkes, (born 30 May 1967 in Albany, Western Australia) is the former captain of the Australian Women's Hockey Team, best known as the '' Hockeyroos'',she was captain for eight years and became the seco ...
, Australian hockey player
* 1967 –
Sven Pipien
Sven Pipien (born 30 May 1967, in Hanover, Germany) is a musician best known as the bassist of the southern rock band The Black Crowes.
Biography
Sven Pipien began his musical career playing bass with Atlanta-based rock outfit Mary, My Hope. The ...
, German-American bass player
*
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* J ...
–
Jason Kenney, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th
Premier of Alberta
* 1968 –
Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen, sentenced to life in prison related to
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commer ...
*
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
–
Naomi Kawase, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1969 –
Ryuhei Kitamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
J ...
–
Paul Grayson, English rugby player and coach
* 1971 –
Duncan Jones, English director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1971 –
Idina Menzel, American singer-songwriter and actress
* 1971 –
Jiří Šlégr
Jiří Šlégr (; born 30 May 1971) is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman, and was a member of the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup championship team after being acquired in a late-season trade. Šlégr was inducted into th ...
, Czech ice hockey player and politician
* 1971 –
Adrian Vowles
Adrian Vowles (born 30 May 1971) is a former professional Scotland international rugby league footballer who played as a or in the 1990s and 2000s. He played in Australia for several years, gaining State of Origin selection in 1994, but spe ...
, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
*
1972 –
Manny Ramirez
Manuel Arístides Ramírez Onelcida (born May 30, 1972) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for parts of 19 seasons. He played with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, ...
, Dominican-American baseball player and coach
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...
–
Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
* 1974 –
Kostas Chalkias
Konstantinos "Kostas" Chalkias ( el, Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Χαλκιάς; born 30 May 1974) is a retired Greek footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Previously he had played for Panathinaikos, Apollon Smyrni, Iraklis, Port ...
, Greek footballer
* 1974 –
CeeLo Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
* 1974 –
David Wilkie, American ice hockey player and coach
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
–
Evan Eschmeyer
Evan Bruce Eschmeyer (born May 30, 1975) is an American retired professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets in the second round (34th pick overall) of the 1999 NBA Draft. He spent six years on the Northwestern Univers ...
, American basketball player
* 1975 –
Brian Fair
Brian James Fair (born May 30, 1975) is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as lead vocalist of the metalcore band Shadows Fall. He graduated from Milford High School in 1993, and went on to study literature at Boston Universit ...
, American singer-songwriter
* 1975 –
Andy Farrell, English rugby player and coach
* 1975 –
Marissa Mayer, American computer scientist and businesswoman
*
1976 –
Rasho Nesterović, basketball player
* 1976 –
Magnus Norman
Magnus Norman (born 30 May 1976) is a Swedish tennis coach and retired professional tennis player. He reached a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world No. 2 singles ranking on June 12, 2000. His career highlights include r ...
, Swedish tennis player and coach
* 1976 –
Margaret Okayo
Margaret Okayo (born May 30, 1976 in Masaba, Kisii District) is a professional marathon runner from Kenya. She has won a number of major marathons, including the New York City Marathon (two times), the Boston Marathon, and the London Marathon. S ...
, Kenyan runner
*
1977 –
Rachael Stirling, English actress
* 1977 –
Federico Vilar
Federico Vilar Baudena (born 30 May 1977) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
Vilar played the majority of his career in Mexico where played for five different clubs. He also won four different titles ...
, Argentinian-Italian footballer
*
1979 –
Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1979 –
Clint Bowyer, American race car driver
* 1979 –
Francis Lessard
Francis Lessard (born May 30, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He last played with the Trois-Rivières Blizzard of Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (LNAH). He has played for the Atlanta Thrashers and Ottawa Senators ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
–
Steven Gerrard
Steven George Gerrard (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player, who most recently managed club Aston Villa. Described by pundits and fellow professionals as one of his generation's greatest players, ...
, English international footballer and manager
* 1980 –
Ilona Korstin, Russian basketball player
* 1980 –
Ryōgo Narita, Japanese author
*
1981 –
Devendra Banhart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1981 –
Gianmaria Bruni, Italian race car driver
* 1981 –
Ahmad Elrich
Ahmad Elrich ( ar, أحمد الريش; born 30 May 1981) is an Australian professional association footballer who plays as a right winger for Australian club Parramatta FC. Born in Australia to Lebanese parents, Elrich represented his native c ...
, Australian footballer
* 1981 –
Remy Ma, American rapper
* 1981 –
Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player
* 1981 –
Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer
*
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C ...
–
Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
* 1982 –
James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby player
*
1984 –
Sham Kwok Fai
Sham Kwok Fai (; born 30 May 1984 in Hong Kong) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer and current coach at Hong Kong Premier League club Southern. He also plays as an amateur player for Hong Kong First Division club Citizen.
He is ...
, Hong Kong footballer
* 1984 –
Matt Maguire
Matthew John Maguire (born 30 May 1984) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the St Kilda Football Club and the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL).
AFL career
St Kilda Football Club
Maguire ...
, Australian footballer
* 1984 –
Alexander Sulzer
Alexander Sulzer (born May 30, 1984) is a German former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) and National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career
Born in Kaufbeuren, West Germany, Sulzer went through the ...
, German ice hockey player
*
1985 –
Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (d. 2013)
* 1985 –
Igor Lewczuk
Igor Lewczuk (born 30 May 1985) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Weszło Warsaw. Besides Poland, he has played in France.
Career
Club
In January 2011, he was loaned to Piast Gliwice.
In June 2011, he was loane ...
, Polish footballer
* 1985 –
Aaron Volpatti
Anthony Aaron Volpatti (born May 30, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger who played with the Vancouver Canucks and the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career
A native of Revelstoke, British ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal en ...
–
Nikolay Bodurov
Nikolay Georgiev Bodurov ( bg, Николай Георгиев Бодуров; born 30 May 1986) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays for Pirin Blagoevgrad and the Bulgarian national team. Bodurov plays mainly as a centre back but ...
, Bulgarian international footballer
*
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...
–
Ailee
Amy Lee (born May 30, 1989), known professionally as Ailee, is an American singer and songwriter based in South Korea. Amassing digital sales success in South Korea, she has released four studio albums, six extended plays, and twenty one singles, ...
, Korean-American singer and songwriter
* 1989 –
Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...
–
Im Yoon-ah, South Korean singer and actress
*1990 –
Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player
*
1991 –
Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
*
1992
File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engin ...
–
Harrison Barnes, American basketball player
* 1992 –
Danielle Harold, English actress
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
–
Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone o ...
–
Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
–
Jung Eun-bi, South Korean singer and actress
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
–
Eddie Nketiah
Edward Keddar Nketiah (born 30 May 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for club Arsenal. Nketiah started his career with Arsenal and made his debut in 2017. He played on loan at Leeds United in their 2019–20 C ...
, English footballer
* 1999 –
Guanyu Zhou, Chinese racing driver
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
531 –
Xiao Tong, prince of the
Liang Dynasty (b. 501)
*
727 –
Hubertus
Hubertus or Hubert ( 656 – 30 May 727 A.D.) was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers. Known as the "Apostle of the Ardennes", he ...
, bishop
Liège
Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.
The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far fro ...
*
947
Year 947 ( CMXLVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – A Hungarian army led by Grand Prince Taksony campaigns in Italy, heading ...
–
Ma Xifan, king of
Chu (b. 899)
*
1035
Year 1035 ( MXXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* c. July 3 – 8-year-old William I becomes duke of Normandy after his father Robert ...
–
Baldwin IV, count of
Flanders
Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to cultu ...
(b. 980)
*
1159
Year 1159 ( MCLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
* September 7 – Pope Alexander III succeeds Pope Adrian IV, as the 170th pope.
* The Heiji Rebellion breaks ...
–
Władysław II the Exile,
High Duke of Poland and
Duke of Silesia (b. 1105)
*
1252
Year 1252 ( MCCLII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona is assassinated by Carino of Balsamo.
* May 15 – P ...
–
Ferdinand III, king of
Castile and
León (b. 1199)
*
1347 –
John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, English
peer
Peer may refer to:
Sociology
* Peer, an equal in age, education or social class; see Peer group
* Peer, a member of the peerage; related to the term "peer of the realm"
Computing
* Peer, one of several functional units in the same layer of a ne ...
(b. 1290)
*
1376 –
Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon
Jeanne de Ponthieu, dame d'Épernon, Countess of Vendôme and of Castres, (''Jeanne de Ponthieu, dame d'Épernon, comtesse de Vendôme et de Castres'', before 1336 – 30 May 1376) better known in English as Joan of Ponthieu, was a French vassa ...
, French noblewoman
*
1416 –
Jerome of Prague
Jerome of Prague ( cs, Jeroným Pražský; la, Hieronymus Pragensis; 1379 – 30 May 1416) was a Czech scholastic philosopher, theologian, reformer, and professor. Jerome was one of the chief followers of Jan Hus and was burned for heresy ...
, Czech martyr and theologian (b. 1379)
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1431 –
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= �an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronat ...
, French martyr and saint (b. 1412)
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1434
Year 1434 ( MCDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* April 14 – The foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral in Nantes, France, is laid ...
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Prokop the Great, Czech general (b. 1380)
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1469 –
Lope de Barrientos
Lope de Barrientos (1382–1469), sometimes called Obispo Barrientos ("Bishop Barrientos"), was a powerful clergyman and statesman of the Crown of Castile during the 15th century, although his prominence and the influence he wielded during his l ...
,
Castilian bishop
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ...
(b. 1389)
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1472 –
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Dowager Duchess of Bedford and Countess Rivers (1415 or 1416 – 30 May 1472) was a prominent, though often overlooked, figure in the Wars of the Roses. Through her short-lived first marriage to the Duke of Bedford, bro ...
, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416)
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1574 –
Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
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1593 –
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon t ...
, English poet and playwright (b. 1564)
1601–1900
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1606 –
Guru Arjan Dev
Guru Arjan ( Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਅਰਜਨ, pronunciation: ; 15 April 1563 – 30 May 1606) was the first of the two Gurus martyred in the Sikh faith and the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of ...
, fifth of the
Sikh gurus (b. 1563)
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1640 –
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradit ...
, German-Belgian painter (b. 1577)
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1696
Events
January–March
* January 21 – The Recoinage Act, passed by the Parliament of England to pull counterfeit silver coins out of circulation, becomes law.James E. Thorold Rogers, ''The First Nine Years of the Bank of Engl ...
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Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (), or more formally Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, was the title of the chief governor of Ireland from the Williamite Wars of 1690 until the Partition of Ireland in 1922. This spanned the King ...
(b. 1638)
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1670 –
John Davenport, English minister, co-founded the
New Haven Colony (b. 1597)
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1712
In the Swedish calendar it began as a leap year starting on Monday and remained so until Thursday, February 29. By adding a second leap day (Friday, February 30) Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year (from Saturda ...
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Andrea Lanzani
Andrea Lanzani (c.1645 – 30 May 1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
Born in Milan in 1641, Lanzani initially apprenticed in the workshop of Luigi Scaramuccia, where he met Andrea Pozzo, a marked influence on his ...
, Italian painter (b. 1645)
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1718 –
Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch-English general (b. 1670)
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1744 –
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. An exponent of Augustan literature, ...
, English poet, essayist, and translator (b. 1688)
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1770 –
François Boucher, French painter and set designer (b. 1703)
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1778 –
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his '' nom de plume'' M. de Voltaire (; also ; ), he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—e ...
, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
* 1778 –
José de la Borda, French/Spanish mining magnate in colonial Mexico (b. ca. 1700)
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1829 –
Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial
Philibert-Jean-Baptiste François Joseph, comte Curial (21 April 1774 – 30 May 1829) was a general in the French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Early life and career
Curial was the son of François Joseph Curial (1740-1801) and his ...
, French general (b. 1774)
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1832 –
James Mackintosh, Scottish historian, jurist, and politician (b. 1765)
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1855 –
Mary Reibey, Australian businesswoman, (b. 1777)
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1873 –
Karamat Ali Jaunpuri
Karāmat ʿAlī Jaunpūrī ( ur, , bn, কারামত আলী জৌনপুরী; 12 June 1800 – 30 May 1873), born as Muḥammad ʿAlī Jaunpūrī, was a nineteenth-century Indian Muslim social reformer and founder of the Taiyuni ...
, Indian Muslim scholar, (b. 1800)
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1892 –
Mary Hannah Gray Clarke, American author, correspondent, and poet (b. 1835)
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1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher ...
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John Catron
John Catron (January 7, 1786 – May 30, 1865) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1837 to 1865, during the Taney Court.
Early and family life
Little is known of Catron's ...
, American lawyer and judge (b. 1786)
1901–present
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1901 –
Victor D'Hondt
Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt (; 20 November 1841 – 30 May 1901) was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates i ...
, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841)
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1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
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Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the
Milton Bradley Company
Milton Bradley Company or simply Milton Bradley (MB) was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860. In 1920, it absorbed the game production of McLoughlin Brothers, formerly the ...
(b. 1836)
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1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
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Wilbur Wright, American pilot and businessman, co-founded the
Wright Company (b. 1867)
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1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
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Georgi Plekhanov
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (; rus, Гео́ргий Валенти́нович Плеха́нов, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj vəlʲɪnˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ plʲɪˈxanəf, a=Ru-Georgi Plekhanov-JermyRei.ogg; – 30 May 1918) was a Russian revoluti ...
, Russian philosopher and theorist (b. 1856)
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1925 –
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
Arthur Wilhelm Ernst Victor Moeller van den Bruck (23 April 1876 – 30 May 1925) was a German cultural historian, philosopher and writer best known for his controversial 1923 book ''Das Dritte Reich'' ("The Third Reich"), which promoted German ...
, German historian and author (b. 1876)
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1926 –
Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1864)
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1934 –
Tōgō Heihachirō
Marshal-Admiral Marquis , served as a '' gensui'' or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. He claimed descent from Samurai Shijo Kingo, and he was an integral part of preserving ...
, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
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1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1
** Third Reich
*** Jews are forbidden to ...
– Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b. 1904)
*
1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar E ...
– Prajadhipok, Thai king (b. 1893)
*
1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist (b. 1910)
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1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country i ...
– Georg von Trapp, Austrian captain (b. 1880)
*
1948 – József Klekl (politician), József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (b. 1874)
*
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – Luis ...
– Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French cardinal (b. 1874)
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1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (b. 1886)
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...
– Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
*
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangs ...
– Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b. 1918)
*
1957 – Piero Carini, Italian race car driver (b. 1921)
*1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
–
Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina ( , ; 24 October 189130 May 1961), nicknamed ''El Jefe'' (, "The Chief" or "The Boss"), was a Dominican dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from February 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He ser ...
, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th List of Presidents of the Dominican Republic, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
*
1964 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882)
* 1964 – Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b. 1927)
* 1964 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1898)
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...
– Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1899)
*
1967 – Claude Rains, English-American actor (b. 1889)
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses ( February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
J ...
– Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
* 1975 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (b. 1908)
* 1975 – Michel Simon, Swiss-born French actor (b. 1895)
*
1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1890)
* 1976 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (b. 1902)
*1978 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1909)
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
– Carl Radle, American bass player and producer (b. 1942)
*
1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
* 1981 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
*
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C ...
– Albert Norden, German journalist and politician (b. 1904)
*
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal en ...
– Perry Ellis, American fashion designer, founded Perry Ellis (brand), his own eponymous fashion brand (b. 1940)
*1993 – Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1914)
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
– Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th List of presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
* 1994 – Marcel Bich, Italian-French businessman, co-founded Société Bic (b. 1914)
* 1994 – Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
*1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (b. 1912)
* 1995 – Lofty England, English-Austrian engineer (b. 1911)
* 1995 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
*
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone o ...
– Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
* 1996 – Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (b. 1961)
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
– Kalju Lepik, Estonian poet and author (b. 1920)
*2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1914)
*2001 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian general and historian (b. 1915)
*2005 – Gérald Leblanc, Acadian poet (b. 1945)
* 2005 – Tomasz Pacyński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1958)
* 2005 – Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and stenographer (b. 1918)
*2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
* 2006 – David Lloyd (botanist), David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist and academic (b. 1938)
* 2006 – Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
*2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy, Algerian-French actor and director (b. 1933)
* 2007 – Birgit Dalland, Norwegian politician (b. 1907)
* 2007 – Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet and critic (b. 1927)
*2009 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
* 2009 – Susanna Haapoja, Finnish politician (b. 1966)
* 2009 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (b. 1916)
*2010 – Yuri Chesnokov (volleyball), Yuri Chesnokov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1933)
* 2010 – Dufferin Roblin, Canadian commander and politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1917)
*2011 – Isikia Savua, Fijian police officer and diplomat (b. 1952)
* 2011 – Saleem Shahzad, Pakistani journalist (b. 1970)
* 2011 – Marek Siemek, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942)
* 2011 – Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
* 2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1921)
*
2012 – John Fox (comedian), John Fox, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1957)
* 2012 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (b. 1917)
* 2012 – Gerhard Pohl, German economist and politician (b. 1937)
* 2012 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
*
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...
– Jayalath Jayawardena, Sri Lankan physician and politician (b. 1953)
* 2013 – Larry Jones (American football coach), Larry Jones, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
*2014 – Hienadz Buraukin, Belarusian poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1936)
* 2014 – Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
* 2014 – Joan Lorring, British actress (b. 1926)
* 2014 – Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral (b. 1932)
*2015 – Beau Biden, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 44th Attorney General of Delaware (b. 1969)
* 2015 – Joël Champetier, Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1957)
* 2015 – L. Tom Perry, American religious leader and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church), Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1922)
*2016 – Tom Lysiak, Polish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1953)
* 2016 – Rick MacLeish, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1950)
*2019 – Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
* 2019 – Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (b. 1983)
*
2020 – Michael Angelis, British actor (b. 1944)
*2021 – Jason Dupasquier, Swiss motorcycle road racer (b. 2001)
Holidays and observances
*Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of the History of Anguilla#Recent history, Anguillian Revolution in 1967. (Anguilla)
*Canary Islands Day (Spain)
*Christian Calendar of saints, feast day:
**Ferdinand III of Castile
**Isaac of Dalmatia
**
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= �an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronat ...
**Joseph Marello
**May 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
*Lod Massacre Remembrance Day
*Mother's Day (Nicaragua)
*Statehood Day (Croatia)
References
External links
BBC: On This Day*
Historical Events on May 30
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