Berlin. The current calendar sheet for Sunday, May 30, 2021: What happened today, who was born, who died? The events in the overview.
Calendar sheet: Sunday, May 30, 2021
- 21st calendar week, 215 days until the end of the year
- Star sign Gemini
- Name day: Ferdinand, Hubert, Jeanne, Reinhild
History: What happened on May 30th?
A look at history can sharpen one’s view of the present. What events took place on May 30th?
2020 – For the first time in nine years, a manned spacecraft from the USA takes off for the ISS space station. The two US astronauts take off in a “Crew Dragon” space capsule with a “Falcon 9” rocket from the Cape Canaveral spaceport and land again in the Gulf of Mexico on August 2nd.
2016 – On the night of May 30th, a severe spring thunderstorm hit the north and east of Baden-Württemberg. Four people are killed. The small town of Braunsbach is destroyed by a scree and mud avalanche.
2006 – Monika Harms is the first federal attorney general. The previous judge at the Federal Court of Justice will take over from Attorney General Kay Nehm on June 1, who will be retiring after twelve years.
2001 – The Bundestag establishes sufficient legal certainty for German companies in the compensation of former Nazi forced laborers and thus gives the green light for the start of the payments.
1996 – The divorce of Prince Andrew, the second son of the British Queen Elizabeth II, and the commoner Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson becomes final.
1991 – The State Treaty on the Formation of Central German Broadcasting (MDR) is signed by the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia in Erfurt.
1971 – The American Mars probe “Mariner 9” takes off into space. The planet’s first artificial satellite sends more than 7,000 images back to Earth.
1846 – In Vienna the comic opera will be premiered in three acts “The Armourer” by Albert Lortzing.
1431 – Joan of Arc, the “Maid of Orléans”, is burned in public in Rouen. The French peasant girl who had led the liberation campaign against the British occupation forces had been sentenced to death for heresy and heresy.
Celebrity birthdays on May 30th
Who was born on May 30th?
1971 – Duncan Jones (50), British director (“Moon”)
1956 – Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou (65), Greek lawyer and politician, will become the first female president in the history of Greece in March 2020
1951 – Stephen Tobolowsky (70), American actor (“The Philadelphia Experiment”)
1941 – Heribert Faßbender (80), German sports journalist and presenter, football and tennis expert for the ARD sports show and long-time sports director of the West German broadcasting company WDR
1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian jeweler and goldsmith, creator of the Fabergé eggs, d. 1920
Celebrity days of death on May 30th
Who died on May 30th?
1986 – Boy Gobert, German-Austrian actor and theater manager, director of the Hamburg Thalia Theater 1969-1980, born in 1925
1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian writer and cultural philosopher (“The Death of Virgil”), born in 1886
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