30 May
Notable Births
Natty (Thai singer)
b. 2002
Thai singer (born 2002)
Jared S. Gilmore
b. 2000
American actor
Eddie Nketiah
b. 1999
British footballer (born 1999)
Zhou Guanyu
b. 1999
Chinese racing driver (born 1999)
Eunha (singer)
b. 1997
South Korean singer (born 1997)
Charlie Hall (actor, born 1997)
b. 1997
American actor
Jake Short
b. 1997
American actor (born 1997)
Beatriz Haddad Maia
b. 1996
Brazilian tennis player (born 1996)
Scott Laughton
b. 1994
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Harrison Barnes
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Danielle Harold
b. 1992
English actress (born 1992)
Jeremy Lamb
b. 1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Jonathan Fox (swimmer)
b. 1991
British Paralympic swimmer
Lim Yoona
b. 1990
South Korean singer and actress (born 1990)
Andrei Loktionov
b. 1990
Russian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Zack Wheeler
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Ailee
b. 1989
American singer (born 1989)
Lesia Tsurenko
b. 1989
Ukrainian tennis player (born 1989)
Nikolay Bodurov
b. 1986
Bulgarian footballer
Jake Roberts
b. 1955
American professional wrestler (born 1955)
Notable Deaths
Étienne-Émile Baulieu
d. 2025
French biochemist and endocrinologist (1926–2025)
Valerie Mahaffey
d. 2025
American actress (1953–2025)
Loretta Swit
d. 2025
American actress (1937–2025)
John Thrasher (Florida politician)
d. 2025
American politician (1943–2025)
Geneviève de Galard
d. 2024
French nurse (1925–2024)
Drew Gordon
d. 2024
American basketball player (1990–2024)
Jason Dupasquier
d. 2021
Swiss motorcycle racer (2001–2021)
Michael Angelis
d. 2020
English actor (1944–2020)
Thad Cochran
d. 2019
American attorney and politician (1937–2019)
Tom Lysiak
d. 2016
Canadian ice hockey player (1953–2016)
Rick MacLeish
d. 2016
Canadian ice hockey player (1950–2016)
Beau Biden
d. 2015
American politician and lawyer (1969–2015)
Joël Champetier
d. 2015
French-Canadian science fiction and fantasy author
L. Tom Perry
d. 2015
American religious leader
Hienadz Buraukin
d. 2014
Belarusian poet, journalist, and diplomat (1936–2014)
Joan Lorring
d. 2014
American actress
Jayalath Jayawardena
d. 2013
Sri Lankan politician and doctor (1953-2013)
Larry Jones (American football coach)
d. 2013
American football player and coach (1933–2013)
Alexander Pope
d. 1744
English poet (1688–1744)
Christopher Marlowe
d. 1593
English playwright and poet (1564–1593)
On This Day in History
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2024
Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case.
Donald Trump
2020
The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
Crew Dragon Demo-2
2013
Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
Nigeria
2012
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
Liberia
2008
Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
Convention on Cluster Munitions
2008
TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.
TACA Flight 390
2003
Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi flees the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
Depayin massacre
1999
53 people are killed in a stampede at the Nyamiha metro station in Minsk, Belarus.
Nyamiha stampede
1998
The 6.5 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
May 1998 Afghanistan earthquake
1998
Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
Nuclear weapons testing
1990
Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
Croatian Parliament
1989
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
1982
Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
Cold War
1979
Downeast Airlines Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
Downeast Airlines Flight 46
1975
European Space Agency is established.
European Space Agency
1974
The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
Airbus A300
1972
The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.
The Angry Brigade
1972
In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
Ben Gurion Airport
1971
Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
Mariner program
1968
Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, West 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.
Charles de Gaulle