May 30th, 1955

Born on May 30th, 1955

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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 South Vietnam's National Assembly, 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 (pictured) 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, BWV 75, in the 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, 1955

68

Colm Tóibín

Irish novelist and writer

*May 30th, 1955, Enniscorthy

68

Brian Kobilka

American physiologist

*May 30th, 1955, Little Falls

68

Jake Roberts

American professional wrestler

*May 30th, 1955, Gainesville

68

Pierre Botton

French businessperson

*May 30th, 1955, 6th arrondissement of Lyon

68

Philip Bretherton

British actor

*May 30th, 1955, Preston

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57

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

72

Stephen Tobolowsky

American actor

*May 30th, 1951, Dallas

43

Steven Gerrard

English association football player and manager

*May 30th, 1980, Whiston

52

Idina Menzel

American actress and singer

*May 30th, 1971, Manhattan

61

Tonya Pinkins

Actress, singer, writer, activist, author

*May 30th, 1962, Chicago

56

Claudia Alexander

American geophysicist and planetary scientist (1959-2015)

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

51

Joachim Rønning

Norwegian film director

*May 30th, 1972, Sandefjord Municipality

65

David Sassoli

President of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2022

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

85

Alexey Leonov

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

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

67

Katerina Sakellaropoulou

Greek judge, president of the Hellenic Republic

*May 30th, 1956, Thessaloniki

80

Luis Rego

Portuguese actor, comedian and musician

*May 30th, 1943, Lisbon

61

Marie Fredriksson

Swedish singer (1958–2019)

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

63

Walter Otto

German historian

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

65

Ann Hampton Callaway

American singer

*May 30th, 1958, Chicago

69

Topper Headon

British drummer

*May 30th, 1954, Bromley

73

Joshua Rozenberg

British journalist

*May 30th, 1950, United Kingdom

48

CeeLo Green

American singer and rapper

*May 30th, 1975, Atlanta

84

Gerasimos Arsenis

Greek politician (1931-2016)

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

83

Gustav Leonhardt

Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor

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

56

Dante Alighieri

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

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

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Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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