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30 May: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 30 May.
Year 1574
Henry III became King of France.
Year 1631
The first French newspaper, the Gazette de France, published.
Year 1826
‘Udanta Martand’ first Hindi newspaper started, so Hindi (Patrakar Din) Journalism Day also celebrated on 30th May.
Year 1867
Maulana Mohammad Kasim Nanantavi established the famous Islamic educational centre 'Dar- Ul -Ulum' in Devkampa, Uttar Pradesh.
Year 1887
The 7th Battalion of the Mechanised Infantry Regiment was raised as 37 DOGRAS by Lt. Col V. Rivas at Sialkot.
Year 1919
Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Year 1942
WWII – 1,000 British planes bombed Cologne, Germany.
Year 1952
S.C.Mathur was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 01-07-1955.
Year 1975
Establishment of the European Space Agency.
Year 1962
69 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.
Year 1977
Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons.
Year 1981
Bangladesh leader Zia-ur-Rehman was killed in a guest house in Chittagong. A total of eight people, including Rahman, were killed in the incident.
Year 1998
A 6.5 MW earthquake in Afghanistan killed 4,000 to 4,500 people.
Year 1985
Earthquake in Srinagar.
Year 1987
Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
Born 1895
Pandurang Sakharam Pisurlekar, the great historian in Goa, was born.
Born 1915
Krishen Behari Lall, Indian Civil Service, and Diplomat, was born at Delhi.
Born 1916
Dinanath Dalal, an Indian painter, and illustrator.
Born 1955
Paresh Rawal, an Indian film actor, comedian, and politician.
Born 1971
Ness Wadia, a British-Indian businessman.
Born 1983
Krushna Abhishek, an Indian film actor and extreme comedian.
Died 1431
Joan of Arc, a Catholic saint.
Died 1574
Charles IX, King of France.
Died 1606
Guru Arjan, the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus.
Died 1778
Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Died 1912
WilburWright, the elder brother of Orville Wright, with whom he developed the world’s first successful airplane.
Died 1950
Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
Died 1955
Narayan Malhar Joshi, the father of Indian Worker's Movement, passed away
Died 1981
Ziaur Rahman, former President of Bangladesh.
Died 1991
Uma Shankar Dixit (90) passed away.
Died 2000
am Vilas Sharma, an Indian literary critic, linguist, poet, and thinker.
Died 2007
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, a Telugu poet, critic, and litterateur.
Died 2013
Dr. Vina Mazumdar, an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist.