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05/30/1821
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James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
Type: Event
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05/30/1822
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House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
Type: Event
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05/30/1829
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Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
Type: Birth
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05/30/1830
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Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1832
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George Doherty Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1832
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Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
Type: Event
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05/30/1833
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Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
Type: Death
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05/30/1835
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Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1840
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Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 59
Type: Death
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05/30/1842
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John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
Type: Event
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05/30/1844
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Louis Varney, composer
Type: Birth
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05/30/1845
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Amadeus I FM, duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1846
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Peter Carl Faberg, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker
Type: Birth
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05/30/1847
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Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
Type: Birth
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05/30/1848
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Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado in return for $15 million
Type: Event
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05/30/1848
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William G Young patents ice cream freezer
Type: Event
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05/30/1848
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2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
Type: Event
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05/30/1853
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Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
Type: Birth
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05/30/1853
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Andries Andr, Dutch actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
Type: Birth
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05/30/1854
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Territories of Kansas and Nebraska created
Type: Event
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05/30/1854
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Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
Type: Event
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05/30/1858
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Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
Type: Event
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05/30/1859
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Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
Type: Birth
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05/30/1862
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Battle of Front Royal, VA
Type: Event
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05/30/1862
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Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
Type: Event
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05/30/1864
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James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen, dies at 26
Type: Death
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05/30/1864
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Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia
Type: Event
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05/30/1864
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Battle of Bethesda Church VA
Type: Event
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05/30/1865
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William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies at 27
Type: Death
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05/30/1866
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Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
Type: Event
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05/30/1867
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Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1868
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Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves
Type: Event
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05/30/1870
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Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
Type: Death
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05/30/1872
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Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
Type: Event
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05/30/1879
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Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
Type: Event
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05/30/1879
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Colin Blythe, cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1879
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92øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
Type: Event
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05/30/1881
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George KFW von Kchler, German fieldmarshal (Invasion Netherlands)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1883
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Riccardo Zandonai, composer
Type: Birth
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05/30/1883
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Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
Type: Event
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05/30/1887
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Gino Tagliapietra, composer
Type: Birth
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05/30/1887
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Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
Type: Birth
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05/30/1888
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James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1889
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Brassier invented
Type: Event
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05/30/1890
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1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
Type: Event
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05/30/1891
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Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
Type: Birth
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05/30/1894
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Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
Type: Event
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05/30/1894
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Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1895
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Maurice Tate, cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1895
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W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
Type: Event
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