DAY IN HISTORY

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Today is the 151st day of 2020 and the 73rd day of spring.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1431, 19-year-old Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, for heresy.

In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

In 1958, unidentified soldiers from World War II and the Korean War were interred in Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknowns.

In 2002, cleanup at

the former World Trade Center site in New York City ended after eight months.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Peter Carl Faberge (1846-1920), goldsmith/ jeweler; Mel Blanc (1908-1989), voice actor; Benny Goodman (1909-1986), bandleader; Joseph Stein (1912-2010), playwright; Gale Sayers (1943- ), football player; Wynonna Judd (1964- ), singer-songwriter; Tom Morello (1964- ), singersongwriter/musician; Billy Donovan (1965- ), basketball coach; Idina Menzel (1971- ), singer/actress;

Manny Ramirez (1972- ), baseball player; Ceelo Green (1974- ), singersongwriter; Clint Bowyer (1979- ), race car driver.

TODAY’S FACT: Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son, Robert Todd Lincoln, then 79 years old, was present at the Lincoln Memorial dedication ceremony in 1922.

TODAY’S SPORTS:

In 1911, Ray Harroun, driving a Marmon Wasp equipped with the first rearview mirror, won the first Indianapolis 500.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “My job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and put wind in the sails of those struggles and people who are fighting on a daily basis, at a grassroots level for the things I believe in.” — Tom Morello

TODAY’S NUMBER: 36 — Doric columns in the Lincoln Memorial, one for each state that had been admitted to the Union at the time of Lincoln’s death, including those that had seceded.

TODAY’S MOON: Between first quarter moon (May 29) and full moon (June 5).