Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 30

This is a list of selected May 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Joan of Arc
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  Joan of Arc
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  Jane Seymour
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  Auckland Harbour Bridge
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  Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial
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  Flag of Biafra
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  Louis XVIII of France
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  Replica of the statue "Goddess of Democracy"
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  Rafael Trujillo in 1952
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  Pearl Hart
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  RMS Aquitania
• Dutch newsreel covering the 1969 Curaçao uprising

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago	refimprove section
1434 – Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were decisively defeated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.	Battle: no footnotes; Wars: needs more footnotes
1593 – English playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death by Ingram Frizer under mysterious circumstances.	refimprove section
1814 – The War of the Sixth Coalition ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which deposed Napoleon and restored Louis XVIII to the French throne.	unreferenced section
1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston was wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas in South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.	tagged for {primary sources} & {reliable sources}
1911 – American race car driver Ray Harroun won the first running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.	1911: refimprove section; 500: unreferenced section
1913 – The Treaty of London was signed to deal with territorial adjustments arising out of the conclusion of the First Balkan War, declaring, among other things, an independent Albania.	refimprove section
1925 – Shanghai Municipal Police officers opened fire on Chinese protesters in the city's International Settlement, giving rise to a major labor and anti-imperialist movement.	refimprove section
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.	Expand section
1961 – Dominican strongman Rafael Trujillo was ambushed by a group of generals and assassinated.	refimprove
1967 – C. Odumegwu Ojukwu announced the establishment of Biafra, a secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria, an event that sparked the Nigerian Civil War one week later.	date not cited
1972 – The criminal trial of The Angry Brigade for a series of bomb attacks in London began.	lead too short, refimprove section
1989 – Goddess of Democracy, a ten-metre (33 ft) high statue made mostly of polystyrene foam and papier-mâché, was erected by student protestors in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.	unreferenced section
Albert Norden |d|1982	lead too short
Lod Massacre Remembrance Day in Puerto Rico (1972);	tagged for citations

Eligible

• 1536 – Jane Seymour, a former lady-in-waiting, married King Henry VIII, becoming the queen consort of England.
• 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.
• 1866 – Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.
• 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.
• 1914 – RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.
• 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.
• 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand, officially opened.
• 1969 – A demonstration by workers and activists on the Caribbean island of Curaçao escalated into a violent uprising which destroyed much of Willemstad.
• 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.
• 1998 – A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, killing at least 4,000 people, destroying more than 30 villages, and leaving 45,000 people homeless.
• 2005 – American student Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.
• Born/died: | Antonina Houbraken |b|1686| Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle |d|1718| Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty |b|1768| Voltaire |d|1778| José de la Borda |d|1778| Charles Dickinson |d|1806| Wyndham Halswelle |b|1882| Agnès Varda |b|1928| CeeLo Green |b|1975| Marie Fredriksson |b|1958| Marcel Bich |d|1994

Notes

• Siege of Compiègne appears on May 23, so Joan of Arc should not appear in the same year
• Catherine of Aragon appears on June 11, so Jane Seymour should not appear in the same year

May 30: Statehood Day in Croatia (1990)

Johann Sebastian Bach

• 1431 – Hundred Years' War: After being convicted of heresy, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.
• 1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach (pictured) assumed the office of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, presenting the cantata Die Elenden sollen essen in St. Nicholas Church.
• 1922 – The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of the sixteenth U.S. president Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.
• 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.
• 2008 – The Convention on Cluster Munitions, prohibiting the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs, was adopted.

• Ma Xifan (d. 947)
• Colin Blythe (b. 1879)
• Norris Bradbury (b. 1909)
• Wynonna Judd (b. 1964)

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