May 30th, 1953

Born on May 30th, 1953

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What 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, 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.

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.

May 30th, 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.

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

Born on May 30th, 1953

71

James Hunter

Canadian alpine ski racer

*May 30th, 1953, Shaunavon

71

Colm Meaney

Irish actor

*May 30th, 1953, Dublin

64

Eduard Stapel

German journalist and theologian (1953-2017)

*May 30th, 1953, Bismark †September 3rd, 2017, Bismark

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

73

Stephen Tobolowsky

American actor

*May 30th, 1951, Dallas

58

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

74

Joshua Rozenberg

British journalist

*May 30th, 1950, United Kingdom

65

David Sassoli

President of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022

*May 30th, 1956, Florence †January 11th, 2022, Aviano

44

Steven Gerrard

English association football player and manager

*May 30th, 1980, Whiston

69

Colm Tóibín

Irish novelist and writer

*May 30th, 1955, Enniscorthy

53

Idina Menzel

American actress and singer

*May 30th, 1971, Manhattan

62

Tonya Pinkins

Actress, singer, writer, activist, author

*May 30th, 1962, Chicago

73

Fernando Lugo

47.° President of Paraguay

*May 30th, 1951, San Pedro del Paraná

85

Alexey Leonov

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

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

56

Claudia Alexander

American geophysicist and planetary scientist (1959-2015)

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

69

Brian Kobilka

American physiologist

*May 30th, 1955, Little Falls

76

Johan De Muynck

Cyclist

*May 30th, 1948, Evergem

81

Luis Rego

Portuguese actor, comedian and musician

*May 30th, 1943, Lisbon

63

Walter Otto

German historian

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

75

Idi Amin

President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979

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

72

Kerry Fraser

Canadian ice hockey official

*May 30th, 1952, Sarnia

61

Marie Fredriksson

Swedish singer (1958–2019)

*May 30th, 1958, Össjö †December 9th, 2019, Djursholm

68

Katerina Sakellaropoulou

Greek judge, president of the Hellenic Republic

*May 30th, 1956, Thessaloniki

64

Zoltán Kocsis

Classical pianist, conductor and composer (1952–2016)

*May 30th, 1952, Budapest †November 6th, 2016, Budapest

Same year
Born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*March 26th, 1953, Duisburg

71

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

71

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

71

Gernot Rohr

German-French association football player and manager

*June 28th, 1953, Mannheim

71

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

71

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

71

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

71

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

71

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, 16th arrondissement of Paris

70

Tom Barrett

Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1953–)

*December 8th, 1953, Milwaukee

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1953 is a normal year and no leap year.

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