439 Historic Events for May 30
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| 1909 |
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George Headley, cricketer (in Panama All-time great WI batsman)
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| 1909 |
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Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
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| 1910 |
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44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
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| 1911 |
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Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
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| 1911 |
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1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
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| 1912 |
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Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Julian Gustave Symons, writer
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| 1912 |
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US Marines sent to Nicaragua
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Hugh Griffith, Wales, actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!)
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| 1912 |
Death |
Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
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| 1912 |
Birth |
Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
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| 1913 |
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1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
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| 1913 |
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as managers who have won 1,000 games
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| 1913 |
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John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, and Connie Mack
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| 1913 |
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New country of Albania, forms
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
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| 1918 |
Death |
Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
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| 1919 |
Death |
Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
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| 1920 |
Birth |
John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
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| 1921 |
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Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
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| 1921 |
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Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
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| 1921 |
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Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
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