📰 TODAY IN HISTORY

📆 - May 30

📜 Events:

* 70 — Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions overthrow the second wall of Jerusalem. The Jewish defenders retreat to the first wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within a fifteen-kilometer radius.

* 1431 — Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, the French peasant girl and saint Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at age 19, condemned for witchcraft by a tribunal dominated by the English.

* 1814 — Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: the Treaty of Paris is signed, and France's borders are restored to those of 1792.

* 1914 — Cunard's newest and largest transatlantic ship, the RMS Aquitania, weighing 45,647 tons, begins its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York.

* 1975 — Creation of the European Space Agency.

* 2020 — The Crew Dragon Demo-2 is launched from Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft launched from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.

* 2024 — Donald Trump becomes the first former U.S. president to be criminally convicted.

*⭐ Births:*

* 1814 — Mikhail Bakunin, Russian writer and anarchist activist (d. 1876).

* 1845 — Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890).

* 1908 — Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989).

* 1934 — Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019).

* 1958 — Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (d. 2019).

* 1964 — Tom Morello, American musician.

* 1980 — Steven Gerrard, British former footballer and football manager.

*🕊️ Deaths:*

* 1431 — Joan of Arc, French heroine and Catholic saint (b. 1412).

* 1640 — Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577).

* 1778 — Voltaire, French philosopher and poet (b. 1694).

* 1960 — Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (b. 1890).

* 1961 — Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, Dominican military and political leader (b. 1891).

* 2002 — Mário Lago, Brazilian actor, composer, and poet (b. 1911).

* 2022 — Milton Gonçalves, Brazilian actor (b. 1933).

*📍 Holidays and Recurring Events:*

*International:*

* World Multiple Sclerosis Day

*Brazil:*

* Anniversary of the municipality of Valparaiso, São Paulo.

* Anniversary of the municipality of São Joaquim da Barra, São Paulo.

* Geologist's Day

* Military Women's Day
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