Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 30
May 30: Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago
- 1431 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was burned at the stake in Rouen, France after being convicted of heresy in a politically motivated trial.
- 1434 - Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were decisively defeated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.
- 1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
- 1911 - The first Indianapolis 500 open-wheel automobile race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, won by Ray Harroun in a Marmon.
- 1922 - The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.
- 1989 - Goddess of Democracy, a statue made mostly of polystyrene foam and papier-mâché, was erected by student protestors in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.