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The following events took place on May 30. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 56 events. Showing 31 - 56.

• 1922

  The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• 1925

  May Thirtieth Movement: Shanghai Municipal Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers.
• 1932

  The National Theatre of Greece is founded.
• 1937

  Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
• 1941

  World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the Nazi swastika.
• 1942

  World War II: One thousand 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.
• 1958

  Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1959

  The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham.
• 1961

  The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• 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

  The former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
• 1966

  Launch of Surveyor 1, the first US spacecraft to land on an extraterrestrial body.
• 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 events in France.
• 1971

  Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% 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.
• 1972

  In Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
• 1974

  The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
• 1989

  Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high “Goddess of Democracy” statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
• 1998

  A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
• 1998

  Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt.
• 2003

  Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
• 2005

  American student Natalee Holloway disappears while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, and caused a media sensation in the United States.
• 2012

  Former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 2013

  Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

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