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May 30: Day of the Week
May 30, 2024 was the 151st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 215 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.
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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
May 30 Historical Event(s)
1871
The Paris Commune falls.
1899
Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
1914
The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1922
In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
1942
World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1948
A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1963
A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam’s National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
1966
Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1967
The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1968
Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 in France.
Who were born on May 30?
1844
Félix Arnaudin, French poet and folklorist (d. 1921)
1919
René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1943
Gale Sayers, American football player
1953
Colm Meaney, Irish actor
1959
Phil Brown, English football manager (Hull City)
1964
Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
1964
Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1974
Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
1977
Rachael Stirling, British actress
1978
Cyrus King, American actor
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