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MAY 30

Holidays and observances

Liturgical feasts

Events

★ 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.

★ 1431 - Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

★ 1434 - Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany - Effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilated Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.

★ 1536 - King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.

★ 1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.

★ 1574 - Henry III becomes King of France.

★ 1588 - The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

★ 1635 - Thirty Years' War: Peace of Prague (1635) signed.

★ 1806 - Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.

★ 1814 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition - Treaty of Paris (1814) signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.

★ 1832 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is first opened.

★ 1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.

★ 1868 - Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclaimation on May 5).

★ 1871 - The Paris Commune falls.

★ 1876 - Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.

★ 1879 - New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.

★ 1879 - An F4 tornado strikes Irving, <a hr