Today in History, 30 May

Today in History, May 30

 

1416Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church.
1431Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English.
1527The University of Marburg is founded in Germany.
1539Hernando de Soto lands in Florida with 600 soldiers in search of gold.
1783The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia.
1814The First Treaty of Paris is declared, returning France to its 1792 borders.
1848William Young patents the ice cream freezer.
1854The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise.
1859The Piedmontese army crosses the Sesia River and defeats the Austrians at Palestro.
1862Union General Henry Halleck enters Corinth, Mississippi.
1868Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves.
1889The brassiere is invented.
1912U.S. Marines are sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
1913The First Balkan War ends.
1921The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.
1942The Royal Air Force launches the first 1,000 plane raid over Germany.
1971NASA launches Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars.
 

Born on May 30

 

1672Peter I (the Great) czar of Russia.
1867Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist.
1903Countee Cullen, American poet.
1908Hannes Alfvén, Swedish, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist.
1908Mel Blanc, American entertainer, vocal artist.
1909Benny Goodman, musician, big band leader.
1916Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, co-discoverer of plutonium.

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