more events on May 30
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1971
NASA launches Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars.
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1942
The Royal Air Force launches the first 1,000 plane raid over Germany.
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1921
The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.
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1916
Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, co-discoverer of plutonium.
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1913
The First Balkan War ends.
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1912
U.S. Marines are sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.
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1909
Benny Goodman, musician, big band leader.
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1908
Mel Blanc, American entertainer, vocal artist.
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Hannes Alfvén, Swedish, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist.
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1903
Countee Cullen, American poet.
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1889
The brassiere is invented.
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1868
Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves.
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1867
Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist.
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1862
Union General Henry Halleck enters Corinth, Mississippi.
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1859
The Piedmontese army crosses the Sesia River and defeats the Austrians at Palestro.
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1854
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise.
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1848
William Young patents the ice cream freezer.
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1814
The First Treaty of Paris is declared, returning France to its 1792 borders.
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1783
The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia.
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1672
Peter I (the Great) czar of Russia.
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1539
Hernando de Soto lands in Florida with 600 soldiers in search of gold.
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1527
The University of Marburg is founded in Germany.
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1431
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English.
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1416
Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church.