TODAY in HISTORY
Today is Wednesday May 30, the 150th day of 2018. There are 215 days left in the year.
1381 Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
1416 The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy. 1536 King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a ladyinwaiting to his first two wives.
1588 The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. 1631 Publication of Gazette de France,
the first French newspaper. 1806 Future US President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
1842 John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert. 1914 The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania,
45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to
New York City. 1917 Alexander I becomes king of Greece. 1922 The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C. 1943 The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zig eu nerf ami lien lag er ( Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by GovernorGeneral Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham. 1966 Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste 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. 1971 Mariner programme:
Mariner 9 is launched to map 70 per cent of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1972 The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom. 1974 The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service. 1975 European Space Agency is established. 1998 Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent. 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted. 2012 Ex- Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years for atrocities in Sierra Leone Civil War.