TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1416 - Jerome of Prague was burned as a heretic by the Church.

1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.

1527 - The University of Marburg was founded in Germany.

1539 - Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, landed in Florida with 600 soldiers to search for gold.

1814 - The First Treaty of Paris was declared, which returned France to its 1792 borders.

1861 - Ill-fated explorer Wills returns to the Dig tree to see whether a rescue party has arrived.

1886 - The Ly-ee-Moon steamer runs aground off Cape Green lighthouse in southern NSW, killing 71.

1894 - Explorer David Carnegie finds gold at Niagara Creek, Western Australia.

1913 - The First Balkan War ended.

1967 - The state of Biafra seceded from Nigeria and Civil war erupted.

1981 - In Chittagong, Bangladesh, President Ziaur Rahman was assassinated.

1982 - Spain became the 16th NATO member. Spain was the first country to enter the Western alliance since West Germany in 1955.

1983 - Peru’s President Fernando Belaunde Terry declared a state of emergency and suspended civil rights after bombings by leftist rebels.

1989 - The Goddess of Democracy” statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

1996 - Britain’s Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.

1998 - A powerful earthquake hit northern Afghanistan killing up to 5000.