May 30
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- 1431 - Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
- 1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers to search for gold.
- 1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
- 1871 - The Paris Commune falls
- 1913 - First Balkan War: Treaty of London, 1913 signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
- 1919 - Preparations are made at the Paris Peace Conference for the formation of the American Council on Foreign Relations and the British Royal Institute of International Affairs
- 1922 - In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
- 1941 - World War II: Germany captures Crete.
- 1942 - World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
- 1967 - The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
- 1972 - In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
- 1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
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- 1431 - Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (burned at the stake) (b. 1412)
- 1593 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
- 1640 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
- 1778 - Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
- 1912 - Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)
- 1918 - Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (b. 1856)
- 1925 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German philosopher (b. 1876)
- 1937 - Madison Grant, American lawyer and eugenicist (b. 1865)
- 1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)
