Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
May 30
| 1416 | Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church. | |
| 1431 | Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English. | |
| 1527 | The University of Marburg is founded in Germany. | |
| 1539 | Hernando de Soto lands in Florida with 600 soldiers in search of gold. | |
| 1783 | The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia. | |
| 1814 | The First Treaty of Paris is declared, returning France to its 1792 borders. | |
| 1848 | William Young patents the ice cream freezer. | |
| 1854 | The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise. | |
| 1859 | The Piedmontese army crosses the Sesia River and defeats the Austrians at Palestro. | |
| 1862 | Union General Henry Halleck enters Corinth, Mississippi. | |
| 1868 | Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves. | |
| 1889 | The brassiere is invented. | |
| 1912 | U.S. Marines are sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests. | |
| 1913 | The First Balkan War ends. | |
| 1921 | The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior. | |
| 1942 | The Royal Air Force launches the first 1,000 plane raid over Germany. | |
| 1971 | NASA launches Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars. | |
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| 1672 | Peter I (the Great) czar of Russia. | |
| 1867 | Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist. | |
| 1903 | Countee Cullen, American poet. | |
| 1908 | Hannes Alfvén, Swedish, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist. | |
| 1908 | Mel Blanc, American entertainer, vocal artist. | |
| 1909 | Benny Goodman, musician, big band leader. | |
| 1916 | Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, co-discoverer of plutonium. | |
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