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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_30" title="May 30">May 30</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statehood_Day_(Croatia)" title="Statehood Day (Croatia)">Statehood Day</a></b> in Croatia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990" title="1990">1990</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1431" title="1431">1431</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>: After being convicted of heresy, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc" title="Joan of Arc">Joan of Arc</a></b> was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_burning" title="Death by burning">burned at the stake</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouen" title="Rouen">Rouen</a>, France.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1723" title="1723">1723</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Johann Sebastian Bach</a> assumed the office of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomaskantor" title="Thomaskantor">Thomaskantor</a> in Leipzig, presenting the cantata <b><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Elenden_sollen_essen,_BWV_75" title="Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75">Die Elenden sollen essen</a></i></span></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas_Church,_Leipzig" title="St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig">St. Nicholas Church</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial" title="Lincoln Memorial">Lincoln Memorial</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, featuring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Abraham_Lincoln_(Lincoln_Memorial)" title="Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial)">a sculpture</a> of the sixteenth U.S. president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Chester_French" title="Daniel Chester French">Daniel Chester French</a>, opened.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963" title="1963">1963</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_crisis" title="Buddhist crisis">Buddhist crisis</a></b>: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside the National Assembly of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City" title="Ho Chi Minh City">Saigon</a>, the first open demonstration against President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem" title="Ngo Dinh Diem">Ngô Đình Diệm</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions" title="Convention on Cluster Munitions">Convention on Cluster Munitions</a></b>, prohibiting the use, transfer, and stockpiling of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_munition" title="Cluster munition">cluster bombs</a>, was adopted.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Xifan" title="Ma Xifan">Ma Xifan</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 947); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Blythe" title="Colin Blythe">Colin Blythe</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1879); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_Bradbury" title="Norris Bradbury">Norris Bradbury</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1909); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynonna_Judd" title="Wynonna Judd">Wynonna Judd</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1964)</p>
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