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05/30/1896
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Howard Hawks, Goshen Ind, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1896
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1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
Type: Event
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05/30/1899
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24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
Type: Event
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05/30/1901
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Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
Type: Event
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05/30/1901
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Memorial Day 1st observed in US
Type: Event
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05/30/1901
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Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young and Gay)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1902
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Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist
Type: Birth
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05/30/1902
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Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], Fla, actor (Miracle in Harlem)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1903
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Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ and Other Poems)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1903
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28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
Type: Event
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05/30/1903
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Ray Howard-Jones, artist
Type: Birth
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05/30/1904
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Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panam (1956-60)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1904
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Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
Type: Event
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05/30/1906
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40th Belmont: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
Type: Event
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05/30/1906
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William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
Type: Death
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05/30/1907
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41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
Type: Event
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05/30/1908
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Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
Type: Event
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05/30/1908
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Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
Type: Event
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05/30/1908
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US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
Type: Event
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05/30/1908
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1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
Type: Event
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05/30/1908
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42nd Belmont: Joe Notter aboard Colin win
Type: Event
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05/30/1908
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Hannes OG Alfv‚n, Swedish physicist (Nobel 1970)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1908
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Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1909
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National Conference on the Negro is held
Type: Event
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05/30/1909
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Benny Goodman, Chicago, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1909
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George Headley, cricketer (in Panama All-time great WI batsman)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1909
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Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
Type: Event
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05/30/1910
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44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
Type: Event
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05/30/1911
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Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1911
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1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
Type: Event
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05/30/1912
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Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1912
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Julian Gustave Symons, writer
Type: Birth
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05/30/1912
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US Marines sent to Nicaragua
Type: Event
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05/30/1912
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Hugh Griffith, Wales, actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1912
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Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
Type: Death
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05/30/1912
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Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
Type: Birth
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05/30/1913
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1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
Type: Event
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05/30/1913
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as managers who have won 1,000 games
Type: Event
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05/30/1913
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John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, and Connie Mack
Type: Event
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05/30/1913
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New country of Albania, forms
Type: Event
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05/30/1913
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Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
Type: Birth
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05/30/1914
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Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1915
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Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
Type: Birth
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05/30/1916
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Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1918
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Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
Type: Death
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05/30/1919
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Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
Type: Death
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05/30/1920
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John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Type: Birth
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05/30/1921
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Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
Type: Event
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05/30/1921
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Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
Type: Event
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05/30/1921
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Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
Type: Event
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