This Day in History on 30th May
The historical events hold a lot of value for aspirants who are sitting for UPSC competitive exams including the IAS Exam.
On this page, we will list all historical events that occurred on 30th May. The students can refer to them while preparing for all competitive exams and banking exams.
Important Days
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Important Events
1498, 30th May: Columbus set out on a trip to America for the third time with 6 ships.
1574: Henry III became King of France.
1631: The first French newspaper, the Gazette de France, published.
1826: ‘Udanta Martand’ first Hindi newspaper started, so Hindi (Patrakar Din) Journalism Day also celebrated on 30th May.
1867: Maulana Mohammad Kasim Nanantavi established the famous Islamic educational centre ‘Dar- Ul -Ulum’ in Devkampa, Uttar Pradesh.
1887: The 7th Battalion of the Mechanised Infantry Regiment was raised as 37 DOGRAS by Lt. Col V. Rivas at Sialkot.
1919: Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
1942: WWII – 1,000 British planes bombed Cologne, Germany.
1952: S.C.Mathur was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 01-07-1955.
1975: Establishment of the European Space Agency.
1962: 69 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.
1977: Express Train fell into Beki river in Assam killing 44 persons.
1981: Bangladesh leader Zia-ur-Rehman was killed in a guest house in Chittagong. A total of eight people, including Rahman, were killed in the incident.
1998: A 6.5 MW earthquake in Afghanistan killed 4,000 to 4,500 people.
1985: Earthquake in Srinagar.
1987: Goa becomes the 25th state of India.
Birthday / Anniversary
1895: Pandurang Sakharam Pisurlekar, the great historian in Goa, was born.
1915: Krishen Behari Lall, Indian Civil Service, and Diplomat, was born at Delhi.
1916: Dinanath Dalal, an Indian painter, and illustrator.
1955: Paresh Rawal, an Indian film actor, comedian, and politician.
1971: Ness Wadia, a British-Indian businessman.
1983: Krushna Abhishek, an Indian film actor and extreme comedian.
Death / Death Anniversary
1431: Joan of Arc, a Catholic saint.
1574: Charles IX, King of France.
1606: Guru Arjan, the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus.
1778: Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
1912: WilburWright, the elder brother of Orville Wright, with whom he developed the world’s first successful airplane.
1950: Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
1955: Narayan Malhar Joshi, the father of Indian Worker’s Movement, passed away
1981: Ziaur Rahman, former President of Bangladesh.
1991: Uma Shankar Dixit (90) passed away.
2000: am Vilas Sharma, an Indian literary critic, linguist, poet, and thinker.
2007: Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, a Telugu poet, critic, and litterateur.
2013: Dr. Vina Mazumdar, an Indian academic, left-wing activist and feminist.