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Events on May 30

• 1431 Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen.
• 1723 With a performance of his cantata The Famine in St. Nicholas Church, Johann Sebastian Bach takes up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig.
• 1832 The Hambach Festival, regarded as the high point of early liberal opposition during the Restoration and the Vormärz period, ends at Hambach Castle.
• 1849 Prussia introduces the three-class franchise system.
• 1942 1,000 Royal Air Force bombers attack the city of Cologne.
• 1949 With one vote against, the Third German People's Congress adopts the first constitution of the German Democratic Republic. The draft had been unanimously approved by the German People's Council and referred to the delegates. The law enters into force on October 7.
• 1968 The Leipzig University Church (St. Paul's Church) is blown up. In connection with this, the largest protest action by the East German population against the GDR regime between the June 17, 1953 uprising and the autumn of 1989 takes place.
• 1975 The European Space Agency (ESA) is founded.
• 1992 The Franco-German television channel Arte begins broadcasting.
• 2005 With Angela Merkel, the CDU/CSU nominates a woman for the first time as a candidate for the office of Federal Chancellor for the 16th German Bundestag.
• 2005 The Allianz Arena, the football stadium in Munich, is officially opened.
• 2020 First crewed spaceflight by a private spaceflight company: SpaceX sends Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley to the ISS in a Dragon 2 capsule as part of SpX-DM2.

Born on May 30

• 1896 Howard Hawks, American film director
• 1901 Walter Felsenstein, Austrian director
• 1910 Inge Meysel, German actress
• 1923 Walter Reichelt, German actor and voice actor
• 1941 Heribert Faßbender, German sports journalist
• 1942 Gerhard Olschewski, German actor
• 1961 Sabine Vitua, German actress
• 1971 Idina Menzel, American actress
• 1980 Steven Gerrard, English footballer
• 2001 Patrick Wimmer, Austrian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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