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Today in History for 30th May 2025

Historical Events

1908 – US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1908 – 1st federal workmen’s compensation law approved
1933 – Indianapolis 500: Louis Meyer wins accompanied by riding mechanic Lawson Harris; Mark Billman killed in a crash on lap 79; Lester Spangler and riding mechanic “Monk” Jordan die in a crash on lap 132
1962 – 69 killed in bus crash in Ahmedabad, India
2022 – Frontier becomes the world’s fastest supercomputer and first exascale computer, able to perform a quintillion calculations per second, at US’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Famous Birthdays

1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1801-04), born in London (d. 1844)
1830 – Edward Winslow Hinks, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bucksport, Maine (d. 1894)
1844 – Louis Varney, French composer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1908)
1871 – Amos Rusie, American Baseball HOF pitcher (Triple Crown and NL wins leader 1894; 5 × NL strikeout leader; pitched no-hitter 1891; NY Giants), born in Mooresville, Indiana (d. 1942)
1926 – Edouard Van Remoortel, Belgian conductor (St Louis Symphony, 1958-62), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1977)

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Famous Deaths

1469 – Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, 13th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and US Secretary of Agriculture, dies at 94
2008 – Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
2019 – Frank Lucas, American drug kingpin (fictionalised in 2007 film “American Gangster”), dies at 88
2021 – Frank Navarro, American college football coach (Williams College, Columbia University, Princeton University), dies at 91

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Famous Deaths for 29th May 2025

1511 – Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres, Spanish Governor of the Indies (1501-09), dies at 50 or 51
1790 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (Battle of Bunker Hill), dies at 72
1862 – Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue, dies at 71
1921 – Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and naturalist (paintings of angels), dies at 71
1951 – Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer, dies at 66
1961 – Uuno Klami, Finnish composer (Psalmus; Kalevala Suite), dies of a heart attack while sailing at 60
1972 – Margaret Ruthven Lang, American composer (Irish Love Song), dies at 104
2012 – Mark Minkov, Russian Soviet theater and film score composer, dies at 67
2015 – Henry Carr, American athlete (Olympic gold 200m, 4x400m 1964) and football safety (NY Giants), dies at 72
2021 – B.J. Thomas, American singer (“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head”; “Hooked On A Feeling”; “Growing Pains Theme”), dies of lung cancer at 78

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Historical Events for 29th May 2025

1138 – Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) submits himself to Pope Innocentius II
1900 – Trademark “Escalator” registered by Otis Elevator Co.
1916 – NY Giants win 17th consecutive road game
1924 – AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks
1928 – Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1973 – Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1973 – Thomas Bradley elected 1st African American mayor of Los Angeles, California
1983 – Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
2015 – Heat wave in India centered in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states is reported to have killed 1800 people in a week
2019 – World’s smallest surviving baby, a girl, discharged from Sharp March Birch Hospital in San Diego after being born at 23 weeks weighing 8.6 ounces (245 grams)

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Today in History for 29th May 2025

Historical Events

1954 – French Championships Women’s Tennis: Maureen Connolly retains her title; beats Ginette Bucaille of France 6-4, 6-1
1972 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Southern Pines CC: Sandra Palmer wins first of 2 majors by a massive 10 strokes from Judy Rankin and Mickey Wright
2006 – Singer David Bowie joins guitarist David Gilmour as special guest during encore at Royal Albert Hall, London concert; they perform “Arnold Layne” and “Comfortably Numb” in what becomes Bowie’s final UK appearance
2018 – ABC TV network cancels TV comedy “Roseanne” after its star Roseanne Barr posts a racist tweet
2023 – Canadian hiker Delaney Irving (19) wins perilous Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling in Brockworth, Glocestershire, England, despite being knocked unconscious

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Famous Birthdays

1906 – T. H. White, English novelist (England Have My Bones) and author of the King Arthur novels, born in Bombay, British India (d. 1964)
1927 – Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist and writer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1987)
1933 – William Yorzyk Jr., American swimmer (Olympic gold 200m butterfly, WR 2:19.3, 1956), born in Northampton, Massachusetts (d. 2020)
1937 – Charles W. Pickering, American judge (Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi), born in Laurel, Mississippi
1960 – Adrian Paul, English actor (Dance to Win, Highlander), born in London, England

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Famous Deaths

1924 – Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (negotiated Entente Cordiale), dies at 81
1924 – Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher of liturgical music, dies at 76
1939 – Ursula Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint and foundress of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, dies of a carcinoma at 74
1992 – Ruby Middleton Forsythe, African-American teacher who taught for 50 years in one-room schoolhouse in South Carolina, dies at 86
2012 – Mark Minkov, Russian Soviet theater and film score composer, dies at 67

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Famous Deaths for 28th May 2025

1672 – John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
1811 – Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British Prime Minister (Whig: 1846-52 and 1865-66), dies at 85
1900 – George Grove, English biblical scholar and misicographer, dies at 79
1964 – John Finley Williamson, American choral conductor (Westminster Choir College, 1920-58), dies at 76
1979 – William Edmonson, American bass harmony and gospel vocalist (Southernaires), radio, stage and screen actor (Thirty Years Later), dies at 76
1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
1990 – Joseph Hardy, American character actor (Husbands; The Clock), dies at 71
1996 – Jimmy Rowles [Hunter], American jazz pianist and composer (The Peacocks), dies of cardiac arrest at 77
2021 – Mark Eaton, American basketball center (NBA All-Star 1989; NBA Defensive Player of the Year 1985, 89; Utah Jazz), dies after a bicycle accident at 64

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Historical Events for 28th May 2025

1521 – Pope Leo X signs treaty with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
1941 – 1st night game at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C. (NY Yankees pip the Senators 6-5)
1955 – Indianapolis 500: Bob Sweikert wins; defending champion Bill Vukovich killed in a crash while seemingly on his way to an unprecedented third consecutive Indy 500
1956 – Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1972 – Four Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and four civilians killed when a bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely at a house in Belfast
1984 – George Soros founds the Soros Foundation Budapest to help countries free themselves from communism
1991 – Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
1995 – White Sox (5) and Tigers (7) combine for record 12 HRs at Tiger Stadium
2011 – UEFA Champions League Final, London: FC Barcelona beats Manchester United, 3-1; 4th title for Barça
2022 – At least 31 people, mostly children, die in a stampede during a church giveaway event in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria

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Today in History for 28th May 2025

Historical Events

1937 – Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1963 – Estimated 22,000 die in a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal (India)
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Delhi
1983 – Rock guitarist Slash first hears Axl Rose singing with the band Rapidfire at Gazzarri’s On The Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles, California
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

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Famous Birthdays

1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (blowtorch), born in Arboga, Sweden (d. 1939)
1863 – Georg Adler, Polish state economist, born in Poznań, Poland (d. 1908)
1892 – Minna Gombell, American actress (Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1973)
1944 – Gary Stewart, American country singer (“She’s Actin’ Single”), born in Jenkins, Kentucky (d. 2003)
1971 – Isabelle Carré, French actress (Angélique Delange in “Romantics Anonymous”, Anna M. in “Anna M.”), born in Paris, France

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Famous Deaths

1805 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (Minuet), dies at 62
1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British Prime Minister (Whig: 1846-52 and 1865-66), dies at 85
1990 – Giorgio Manganelli, Italian writer and journalist (Gruppo 63 movement), dies at 67
2010 – Jacob Kistemaker, Dutch nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge), dies at 93
2024 – Butch Johnson, American archer (Olympic gold team 1996, bronze 2000), dies at 68

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Famous Deaths for 27th May 2025

1564 – John Calvin [Jehan Cauvin], Protestant religious reformer and theologian (Calvinism), dies at 54 (b. 1509)
1708 – Jacques Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 51
1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1939 – Joseph Roth, Austrian-Jewish journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies of pneumonia at 44
1963 – Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (Star Trek Cage, The Searchers), dies of an intracranial hemorrhage at 43
1986 – Isma’il Raji’ al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
2006 – Paul Gleason, American actor (Breakfast Club, Die Hard), dies of lung cancer at 67
2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (Taxi – “Bobby”; Grease – “Kenickie”; Babylon 5 – “Zack”), dies of pneumonia and sepsis at 60
2011 – Gill Scott-Heron, American writer, poet and singer (“Whitey on the Moon”), dies at 62

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Historical Events for 27th May 2025

1660 – Denmark and Sweden sign the Treaty of Copenhagen, ending the Second Northern War
1864 – Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw’s Shop), Virginia
1910 – Reform of Prussian three-class voting system fails
1916 – Groundbreaking begins on Hugh J. Grant Circle, a park in the Bronx, named for the youngest mayor of New York City (1899-92)
1933 – Austrian communist party banned
1942 – Dorie Miller awarded navy cross for deeds at Pearl Harbor
1966 – Six French fighter jets crash over Spain
1975 – Stanley Cup Final, The Aud, Buffalo, NY: Philadelphia Flyers win back-to-back titles; shutting out Buffalo Sabres, 2-0 for a 4-2 series win; goaltender Bernie Parent wins 2nd consecutive Conn Smyth trophy as playoff MVP
2005 – DreamWorks releases computer-animated film “Madagascar” with voices by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett-Smith
2019 – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz removed from office after a no-confidence vote in parliament, Vice Chancellor Hartwig Löger appointed interim chancellor

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Today in History for 27th May 2025

Historical Events

1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death
1529 – 30 Jews of Posing, Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake
1878 – 6th Preakness: C. Holloway aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:41.75
1895 – British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1958 – Ernest Green becomes the 1st African-American to graduate from Little Rock’s Central High School

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Famous Birthdays

1332 – Ibn Khaldūn, North African Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian (Muqaddimah), born in Tunis (d. 1406)
1823 – John Gray Foster, American Major General (Union Army), born in Whitefield, New Hampshire (d. 1874)
1887 – Kazimierz Fajans, Polish-American physical chemist (Fajans’ rules), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1975)
1975 – André 3000 [Benjamin], American rapper (Outkast), and actor, born in Atlanta, Georgia
1981 – Miloy [Marcos Henriques], Angolan footballer, born in Luanda, Angola

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Famous Deaths

1596 – Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
1708 – Jacques Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 51
1797 – Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist and revolutionary, guillotined for planning an insurrection at 36
1994 – Norman Cook, British museum curator at the Guildhall, dies at 87
2010 – John William Finn, American US Navy sailor, awarded the 1st Medal of Honor of WWII for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, dies at 100

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