Historical Events - May 30
1498: Columbus set out on a trip to America for the third time with 6 ships.
1574: Henry III became King of France.
1631: The first French newspaper, the Gazette de France, published.
1826: ‘Udanta Martand’ first Hindi newspaper started, so Hindi (Patrakar Din) Journalism Day also celebrated on 30th May.
1942: WWII – 1,000 British planes bombed Cologne, Germany.
1975: Establishment of the European Space Agency.
1981: Bangladesh leader Zia-ur-Rehman was killed in a guest house in Chittagong. A total of eight people, including Rahman, were killed in the incident.
1998: A 6.5 MW earthquake in Afghanistan killed 4,000 to 4,500 people.
Famous Birthdays - May 30
1916: Dinanath Dalal, an Indian painter, and illustrator.
1955: Paresh Rawal, an Indian film actor, comedian, and politician.
1971: Ness Wadia, a British-Indian businessman.
1983: Krushna Abhishek, an Indian film actor and extreme comedian.
Death Anniversaries - May 30
1431: Joan of Arc, a Catholic saint.
1574: Charles IX, King of France.
1606: Guru Arjan, the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus.
1778: Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
1912: WilburWright, the elder brother of Orville Wright, with whom he developed the world’s first successful airplane.
1981: Ziaur Rahman, former President of Bangladesh.
2000: am Vilas Sharma, an Indian literary critic, linguist, poet, and thinker.
2007: Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, a Telugu poet, critic, and litterateur.
2013: Dr. Vina Mazumdar, an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist.
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