In History today

Today 30th May 2020

1574 - Henry III becomes king of France.

1871 - The end of the Paris commune.

1974 - Airbus A300 passenger aircraft makes its first service.

1975 European Space Agency established

1998 - Pakistan conducts nuclear test

2013 - Nigeria Bans same Sex Marriage

1957- TV Thomas and K. R. Gauri amma got married.

1987-Goa State was formed

1917 - Alexander I becomes King of Greece.

1941 - World War II: Germany captured Crete in Greece

Famous leaders born today

1954 - Ibrahim Bevinca (Malayalam writer, author, member of Kerala Sahitya Akademi and member of Calicut University Board of Studies (Malayalam))

1970 - 1950 - Paresh Rawal (Paresh Rawal, a film actor who played the roles of villain and comedian)

1971 - Rasool Pookutty (Sound Editor and Sound Mixer in Indian Cinema, especially Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil. One of the few to win an Oscar from India.

1975 - Marissa Meyer - (Marissa Ann Mayer, the longtime executive of Google and later the CEO and president of Yahoo)

1960 - Margie Vijayakumar - (Mariam Vijayakumar, the main disciple of Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair and the female lead roles in Kathakali, Damayanti, Panchali, Mohini and Kunti)

1977 - Gopi Sundar ( who composed music for many films and commercials including Puli Murukan, Big B, Sagar Elias Jaki, ABCD).

1964 - Mons Joseph (former Kerala Congress leader and now Kaduthuruthy MLA)

1909 - Edappally Raghavan Pillai ( was an Indian poet of Malayalam literature and a close associate ofChangampuzha, Krishna Pillai. The pair, the front-runners of romanticism in Malayalam, was considered by many as the Shelley and Keats combination of Malayalam poetry. Kesari Balakrishna Pillaicompared Pillai to the Italian poet, Giacomo Leopardi.

1911 - KCS Panicker (was a metaphysical and abstract painter from India. He interpreted the country's age-old metaphysical and spiritual knowledge in the 1960s when Indian art was under the influence of the Western painters. "That was the time when a few Indian artists were trying to break out of this Western influence and establish an idiom and identity of their own," he said.

In 1976, he was awarded the highest award of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, the Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi for lifetime contribution.

1905 - Hirabhai Barodkar ( was an IndianHindustāni classical music singer, of Kirana Gharana. She was disciple ofUstād Abdul Wahid Khān)

1940 - Jaganmohan Dalmiya (Former Indian Cricket Committee Administrator and Businessman, President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Association of Bengal and President of the International Cricket Council)

1814 - Michael Alexandrovich Bakunin (the inventor of Russian anarchism)

1868 - Abdul Majeed || - (was the last Caliph of the Ottomans of Turkey)

Famous leaders died today

1880 - Ayilyam Thirunal Rama Varma Maharaja -( was the ruler of the princely state of Travancore in India from 1860 to 1880. His reign was highly successful with Travancore gaining the appellation of the "model state of India". Ayilyam Thirunal was the nephew of Uthram ThirunalandSwathi Thirunal and grandson of the celebratedGowri Lakshmi Bayi. The Maharajah implemented many reforms and changes in Travancore, which were all agreeably beneficial for the state.

2005 - K. Kunjunni Raja ( a prominent Sanskrit scholar in Kerala who has authored 30 books and over 200 research papers)

2007 - Gunturu Vasendra Varma - (was a Telugu poet, writer, and writer known as the Yuga poet who has written more than fifty works including Na Desam Na Prajulu and Kayla Rekha)

2013 - Vina Masumdar (was Member Secretary of the Committee appointed by the Government of India in 1971 to study the social status of Indian women and Founder Director of the Center for Women's and Development Studies (CWDS) in 1980) Prominent among those who gave theoretical guidance to Indian Leftist women's movement in the seventies)

2013 - Rituparna Ghosh (He was a Bengali filmmaker for over two decades. Has been the recipient of twelve national awards.

1744 - Alexander Pope -( is regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry, including the Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and an Essay on Criticism, as well as for his translation of homer. AfterShakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in the English language, per the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, some of his verses having even become popular idioms in common parlance (e.g., Damning with faint praise). He is considered a master of the heroic couplet.

1431 - Joan of Arc ( is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in northeast France. Joan claimed to have received visions of the archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The unanointed King Charles VII sent Joan to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted only nine days later. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's consecration at Reims. This long-awaited event boosted French morale and paved the way for the final French victory. On 23 May 1430, she was captured at Compiègne by the Burgundian faction, a group of French nobles allied with the English. She was later handed over to the English and put on trial by the pro-English Bishop Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges. After Cauchon declared her guilty, she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age.

1606 - Guru Arjan Singh - was the first of the two Gurus martyred in the Sikh faith and the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of the Sikh scripture called the Adi Granth, which later expanded into the Guru Granth Sahib.

1778- Voltaire François-Marie Arouet -( was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

1960 - Boris Leonidovich Pasternak( was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca, and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.

Some other importance of the day

World Multiple Sclerosis Day

May 30, 957 - KSU Day

Nicaragua: Mother's Day

Croatia: Parliament Day

Puerto Rico: Load Airport Massacre Day

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