May 30th, 1979

Born on May 30th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on May 30th, 1979?

May 30th, 1979

Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downeast_Airlines_Flight_46

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 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.

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

Born on May 30th, 1979

44

Rie Kugimiya

Japanese voice actress and singer

*May 30th, 1979, Osaka

44

Hal Elrod

American author

*May 30th, 1979, Camarillo

44

Jenny Mollen

American actress

*May 30th, 1979, Phoenix

44

Fabian Ernst

German footballer

*May 30th, 1979, Hanover

44

Clint Bowyer

American racecar driver

*May 30th, 1979, Emporia

44

István Vad

Hungarian football referee

*May 30th, 1979, Budapest

44

Francis Lessard

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 30th, 1979, Montreal

44

Mike Bishai

Canadian ice hockey player

*May 30th, 1979, Edmonton

44

Artiwara Kongmalai

Thai singer

*May 30th, 1979, Suphan Buri

44

Tadhg Murphy

Irish film actor

*May 30th, 1979, Dublin

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

43

Steven Gerrard

English association football player and manager

*May 30th, 1980, Whiston

57

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

52

Idina Menzel

American actress and singer

*May 30th, 1971, Manhattan

51

Joachim Rønning

Norwegian film director

*May 30th, 1972, Sandefjord Municipality

48

CeeLo Green

American singer and rapper

*May 30th, 1975, Atlanta

61

Tonya Pinkins

Actress, singer, writer, activist, author

*May 30th, 1962, Chicago

72

Stephen Tobolowsky

American actor

*May 30th, 1951, Dallas

85

Alexey Leonov

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

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

63

Walter Otto

German historian

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

56

Claudia Alexander

American geophysicist and planetary scientist (1959-2015)

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

42

Devendra Banhart

American-Venezuelan folk singer

*May 30th, 1981, Houston

80

Luis Rego

Portuguese actor, comedian and musician

*May 30th, 1943, Lisbon

56

Dante Alighieri

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

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

46

Federico Vilar

Argentine footballer

*May 30th, 1977, Buenos Aires

68

Colm Tóibín

Irish novelist and writer

*May 30th, 1955, Enniscorthy

34

Ailee

Korean-American singer

*May 30th, 1989, Denver

32

Katrina Jade

American pornographic actress

*May 30th, 1991, Sacramento

43

Dela Dabulamanzi

German actress

*May 30th, 1980, Cologne

38

Jennifer Winget

Indian film and television actress

*May 30th, 1985, Goregaon

83

Gustav Leonhardt

Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor

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

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Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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