May 30th, 1949

Born on May 30th, 1949

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What happened on May 30th?

May 30th, 2024

Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records in a New York trial, becoming the first former U.S. president found guilty in a criminal case.

May 30th, 2020

Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercial mission to the International Space Station.

May 30th, 2012

Former Liberia president Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

May 30th, 1806

In one of several violent incidents involving future U.S. president Andrew Jackson, Charles Dickinson was killed in a duel; Jackson was wounded and carried the bullet for the rest of his life.

May 30th, 1940

Second World War: HMS Cambrian was sunk by a mine in The Solent, with the loss of 23 lives.

May 30th, 1969

A demonstration by workers and activists on the Caribbean island of Curaçao escalated into a violent uprising which destroyed much of Willemstad.

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 on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.

May 30th, 1972

Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Operations, killing over 20 people and injuring almost 80 others.

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 officially opened, connecting the suburbs of Saint Marys Bay and Northcote in Auckland, New Zealand, across Waitematā Harbour.

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.

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

Born on May 30th, 1949

77

Rüdiger Joswig

German actor

*May 30th, 1949, Anklam

77

P. J. Carlesimo

American basketball player and coach

*May 30th, 1949, Scranton

Same year
Born in 1949

76

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

77

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

77

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

76

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

76

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

77

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

76

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer, musician and actor (1949-2016)

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

76

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher

*September 2nd, 1949, Peine

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

77

Hans Michelbach

German politician

*May 3rd, 1949, Gemünden am Main

76

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

76

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

76

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

77

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

77

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations since 2017

*April 30th, 1949, Lisbon

67

Howard Schmidt

American computer security expert (1949-2017)

*October 5th, 1949, Philadelphia †March 2nd, 2017, Muskego

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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