May 30th, 1854

Born on May 30th, 1854

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 62,000 days old!

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What happened on May 30th, 1854?

May 30th, 1854

The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the U.S. territories of Kansas and Nebraska.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas–Nebraska_Act

May 30th, 1854

The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and allowing their settlers to determine if slavery would be permitted.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas–Nebraska_Act

What else happened on May 30th?

May 30th, 2008

The Convention on Cluster Munitions, prohibiting the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs, was adopted.

May 30th, 2005

American student Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.

May 30th, 1963

Buddhist crisis: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside the National Assembly of South Vietnam in Saigon, the first open demonstration against President Ngô Đình Diệm.

May 30th, 1959

The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand, officially opened.

May 30th, 1948

A dike holding the Columbia River broke, causing a flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon, U.S., only five years after the city was built.

May 30th, 1943

The first game of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the United States, was played.

May 30th, 1922

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of the sixteenth U.S. president Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.

May 30th, 1914

RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.

May 30th, 1899

Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Globe, Arizona.

May 30th, 1866

Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.

May 30th, 1723

Johann Sebastian Bach (pictured) assumed the office of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, presenting the cantata Die Elenden sollen essen in St. Nicholas Church.

May 30th, 1536

Jane Seymour, a former lady-in-waiting, married King Henry VIII, becoming the queen consort of England.

May 30th, 1431

Hundred Years' War: After being convicted of heresy, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 30th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on May 30th?

63

Walter Otto

German historian

*May 30th, 1878, Wrocław †November 1st, 1941, Munich

43

Anton Ažbe

Slovenian artist (1862-1905)

*May 30th, 1862, Carniola †August 6th, 1905, Munich

58

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

64

Louis Varney

French composer

*May 30th, 1844, New Orleans †August 20th, 1908, Cauterets

87

Pierre Janet

French psychologist

*May 30th, 1859, Paris †February 24th, 1947, Paris

44

Steven Gerrard

English association football player and manager

*May 30th, 1980, Whiston

56

Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

*May 30th, 1265, Florence †September 13th, 1321, Ravenna

52

Joachim Rønning

Norwegian film director

*May 30th, 1972, Sandefjord Municipality

85

Alexey Leonov

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human to conduct a spacewalk (1934-2019)

*May 30th, 1934, Listvyanka †October 11th, 2019, Burdenko Hospital

53

Idina Menzel

American actress and singer

*May 30th, 1971, Manhattan

75

Idi Amin

President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979

*May 30th, 1928, Koboko †August 16th, 2003, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre

62

Tonya Pinkins

Actress, singer, writer, activist, author

*May 30th, 1962, Chicago

73

Stephen Tobolowsky

American actor

*May 30th, 1951, Dallas

83

Gustav Leonhardt

Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor

*May 30th, 1928, 's-Graveland †January 16th, 2012, Amsterdam

74

Peter Carl Fabergé

Russian jeweller (1846–1920)

*May 30th, 1846, Saint Petersburg †September 24th, 1920, Pully

36

Vissarion Belinsky

Russian literary critic

*May 30th, 1811, Suomenlinna †May 26th, 1848, Saint Petersburg

74

Joshua Rozenberg

British journalist

*May 30th, 1950, United Kingdom

84

Gerasimos Arsenis

Greek politician (1931-2016)

*May 30th, 1931, Argostoli †April 19th, 2016, Athens

56

Claudia Alexander

American geophysicist and planetary scientist (1959-2015)

*May 30th, 1959, Vancouver †July 11th, 2015, Los Angeles

79

Peter Leeds

American actor (1917-1996)

*May 30th, 1917, Bayonne †November 12th, 1996, Los Angeles

Same year
Born in 1854

61

Paul Ehrlich

Jewish-German physician and scientist

*March 14th, 1854, Strzelin †August 20th, 1915, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

46

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900)

*October 16th, 1854, Dublin †November 30th, 1900, Paris

82

Adolf Erman

German Egyptologist and lexicographer (1854-1937)

*October 31st, 1854, Berlin †June 26th, 1937, Berlin

58

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)

*April 29th, 1854, Nancy †July 17th, 1912, Paris

86

Paul Sabatier

French chemist

*November 5th, 1854, Carcassonne †August 14th, 1941, Toulouse

67

Benedict XV

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922

*November 21st, 1854, Pegli †January 22nd, 1922, Apostolic Palace

37

Arthur Rimbaud

French poet (1854–1891)

*October 20th, 1854, Charleville (Ardennes) †November 10th, 1891, Marseille

84

Karl Kautsky

Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist (1854–1938)

*October 16th, 1854, Prague †October 17th, 1938, Amsterdam

63

Emil von Behring

German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin

*March 15th, 1854, Ławice †March 31st, 1917, Marburg

78

Helen Nicol

Suffragist, temperance campaigner

*May 29th, 1854, Edinburgh †November 22nd, 1932, Dunedin

86

Louis Marie Cordonnier

French architect

*July 7th, 1854, Haubourdin †November 20th, 1940, Peyrillac-et-Millac

87

David Emmanuel

Romanian mathematician

*January 31st, 1854, Bucharest †February 4th, 1941, Bucharest

54

Francis Marion Crawford

Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)

*August 2nd, 1854, Bagni di Lucca †April 9th, 1909, Campania

76

George Whitefield Chadwick

American composer (1854-1931)

*November 13th, 1854, Lowell †April 4th, 1931, Boston

83

William C. White

American Seventh-day Adventist minister (1854–1937)

*August 29th, 1854, Rochester †September 1st, 1937, St. Helena

85

Gabriel Deville

French politician and diplomat (1854-1940)

*March 8th, 1854, Tarbes †February 28th, 1940, Viroflay

76

Charles Algernon Parsons

Inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931)

*June 13th, 1854, London †February 11th, 1931, Kingston

89

Henri La Fontaine

Belgian lawyer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1854-1943)

*April 22nd, 1854, Brussels †May 14th, 1943, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert - Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe

73

Émile Basly

French trade unionist

*March 29th, 1854, Valenciennes †February 11th, 1928, Lens

69

Hertha Ayrton

English engineer, mathematician and inventor (1854-1923)

*April 28th, 1854, Portsea Island †August 23rd, 1923, Lancing

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1854 is a normal year and no leap year.

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