Hızır Bey Appointed as the First Mayor of Istanbul

May 30 is the 150st day of the year (151nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 215.

Railways

30 May 1935 was purchased with all branches in İzmir-Aydın Railway with the date and 2775 numbered law. 1 joined the State Railways network as of June.

Events

1431 - Jeanne d'Arc was tried for witchcraft and burned at the stake.
1453 – Fatih Sultan Mehmet appointed Hızır Bey (Çelebi) as the first mayor of Istanbul.
1453 – Fatih Sultan Mehmet founded Istanbul University.
1536 – King of England VIII. Henry married Jane Seymour.
1631 – One of the first newspapers of France, The Gazette, started to be published by Théophraste Renaudot.
1740 – The Ottoman Empire made a capitulation treaty with France.
1806 - Andrew Jackson killed a man named Charles Dickinson in a duel for insulting his wife. Andrew Jackson had not yet been President of the United States at that time.
1876 – Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz was deposed by the 30 May 1876 Coup. He was succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1913 – The First Balkan War ends.
1920 – Cafer Tayyar Eğilmez was given the title of Commander of Thrace Defense-i Milliye by the Edirne Defense-i Law Central Committee.
1920 – A temporary truce was signed between France and the Parliamentary Government. After the military successes and diplomatic victories of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, the Ankara Agreement was signed with France after the Sakarya Victory. (October 20, 1921)
1921 – Çankaya Mansion was presented to Mustafa Kemal. Atatürk donated the mansion to Ordu with a letter.
1925 – The May 30 Incident took place, making it the largest anti-foreign demonstration in China to date.
1935 – 20 thousand people died in the earthquake that took place in Balochistan.
1941 – II. World War II: Germany invades Crete.
1942 – II. World War II: The city of Cologne, Germany, was badly damaged in an air attack that lasted 1000 hours, in which about 1,5 British bombers participated.
1962 – After the May 27 military intervention, when the civilian administration was passed, the CHP-AP partnership, which was the first coalition government established under the Presidency of İsmet İnönü, ended with the resignation of Prime Minister İsmet İnönü.
1967 - After years of struggle against the Nigerian military dictatorship, Biafra gained its independence.
1968 – The President of France, Charles de Gaulle, dissolved the Parliament and announced that elections would be held in normal time.
1971 – The unmanned US spacecraft Mariner 9 is launched into space to gather information about Mars.
1975 – Mehmet Ali Aybar founded the Socialist Revolution Party.
1981 – Brigadier General Mansur Ahmet started an uprising against the government in Bangladesh. President Zia al-Rahman was killed.
1982 - Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO. It was also the first country to be admitted to the organization after the accession of West Germany in 1955.
1990 – France bans imports of beef and beef from the UK due to mad cow disease.
1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev went to Washington to discuss the issue of Germany.
1992 - The United Nations Security Council imposed an embargo on Serbia to stop the attacks in Bosnia.
1993 - The PCI 2.0 bus is introduced.
1996 – United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II City Summit started in Istanbul.
2020 – The Crew Dragon Demo-2 spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts is launched.

Births

1757 Henry Addington, English statesman (d. 1844)
1770 – Yekaterina Vladimirovna Apraksina, Russian noble (d. 1854)
1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
1845 – Amadeo I, king of Spain (d. 1890)
1859 – Pierre Janet, French psychologist and neurologist (d. 1947)
1887 – Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian avant-garde artist, sculptor, and printmaker (d. 1964)
1890 – Paul Czinner, Hungarian-born film director and producer (d. 1972)
1896 – Howard Hawks, American film director and writer (d. 1977)
1899 – Irving Thalberg, American filmmaker (d. 1936)
1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish astrophysicist (d. 1995)
1909 – Benny Goodman, American jazz and swing musician and clarinettist (d. 1986)
1912 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor and Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor (d. 1980)
1919 – René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1920 – Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
1926 – Nina Agapova, Soviet-Russian actress (d. 2021)
1928 – Kadriye Latifova, Bulgarian Turk, Turkish folk music artist (d.1962)
1931 – Rüçhan Çamay, Turkish voice actor and film actor
1934 – Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut (first man to walk in space) (d. 2019)
1946 – Jan de Bie, Dutch painter and photographer (d. 2021)
1948 – Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (d. 1974)
1950 – Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
1951 – Zdravko Čolic is a Bosnian singer
1951 – Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician and former bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
1955 – Colm Tóibín, Irish writer, journalist, critic and poet
1958 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish pop-rock musician and singer (d. 2019)
1958 – Theodore Martin McGinley, American actor
1959 - Phil Brown, English footballer, football coach and manager
1960 – Stephen Duffy, English singer-songwriter
1964 - Andrea Montermini, Italian racer
1964 – Tom Morello, American singer
1965 – Guadalupe Grande, Spanish poet, writer, educator, and critic (d. 2021)
1965 – Harald Glööckler, German fashion designer
1965 – Richard Machowicz, American documentary filmmaker, presenter, actor, stuntman, and author (d. 2017)
1965 – Iginio Straffi, Italian director and animator
1966 – Fahim Fazli, American actor
1966 – Thomas Häßler, German former football player and manager
1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French terrorist of Moroccan origin
1971 – Duncan Jones is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.
1971 - Idina Menzel is an American actress and singer.
1974 – Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
1974 – Cee Lo Green, American singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer
1974 – Kostas Halkias, Greek former football player
1975 – Marissa Mayer is an American computer scientist, executive, and investor.
1977 – Akwa, Angolan national football player
1977 – Adrienne Pauly, French actress and singer
1978 – Yeliz Sar, Turkish actress
1979 – Berksan, Turkish singer
1979 – Fabian Ernst, German football player
1980 – Halis Özkahya, Turkish referee
1980 – Remy Ma, American rapper
1980 – Steven Gerrard, English football player
1984 – Kostja Ullmann, German actress
1986 – Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian football player
1986 – Foxi Kéthevoama, Central African national football player
1989 - Ailee, Korean-American singer-songwriter
1989 – Mikel San José, Spanish national football player
1990 – Mustafa Akbaş, Turkish football player
1990 – Im Yoona, South Korean singer and actress
1991 – Tolga Saritas, Turkish actor
1992 - Harrison Barnes, American professional basketball player
1994 – Nazım Sangaré, Turkish football player
1996 – Alexander Golovin, Russian football player
1997 – Fatma Zehra Köse, Turkish fencer

Deaths

1252 – III. Ferdinand II, King of Castile. Ferdinand, after 1230, King of Castile and Leon III. Known as Ferdinand (b. 1199)
1422 – Taejong, third king of the Joseon Kingdom (b. 1367)
1431 – Jeanne d'Arc (Jan Dark), French Catholic saint (cremated) (b. 1412)
1574 – IX. Charles, his elder brother, II. He ascended the throne after the death of François and was the King of France until his death (b. 1550)
1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1564)
1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
1744 – Alexander Pope, English poet (b. 1688)
1770 – François Boucher, French painter and an important representative of the Rococo movement (b. 1703)
1778 – Voltaire, French writer and philosopher (b. 1694)
1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian lawyer, businessman, mathematician (b. 1841)
1912 – Wilbur Wright, American aviator (b. 1867)
1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist (b. 1856)
1925 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German cultural historian and political writer (b. 1876)
1932 – Böcüzade Süleyman Sami, Ottoman writer, bureaucrat and politician (b. 1851)
1934 – Tōgō Heihachirō, Admiral of the Japanese Fleet (b. 1848)
1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist (b. 1910)
1950 – William Townley, English football player and coach (b. 1866)
1955 – Bill Vukovich, American former Formula 1 driver (b. 1918)
1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1961 – Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930-1961 (b. 1891)
1964 – Leo Szilard, Hungarian-American physicist and inventor (b. 1898)
1966 – Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor (b. 1894)
1967 – Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
1975 – Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
1976 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese pilot (b. 1902)
1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist who was awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1917)
1992 – Karl Carstens, president of West Germany from 1979-1984 (b. 1914)
1994 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan novelist and short story writer (b. 1909)
2006 – Boštjan Hladnik, Yugoslav-Slovenian film director (b. 1929)
2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
2009 – Luís Cabral, politician from Guinea-Bissau (b. 1931)
2009 – Ephraim Katzir, 4th President of the State of Israel (b. 1916)
2010 – Peter Orlovsky, American poet and actor (b. 1933)
2011 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physician and scientist who won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) (b. 1921)
2012 – Andrew Huxley, English physiologist, biophysicist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917)
2012 – Rekin Teksoy, writer, translator, film critic (b. 1928)
2013 – Dean Brooks, American physician and actor (b. 1916)
2013 – Güzin Dino, Turkish linguist, lecturer, translator and writer (b. 1910)
2015 – Beau Biden, American politician and lawyer (b. 1969)
2015 – Bedri Koraman, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1928)
2016 – Jan Aas, Norwegian football player and manager (b. 1944)
2017 – Molly Peters, English actress (b. 1942)
2017 – Robert Michael Morris, American actor (b. 1940)
2017 – Elena Verdugo, American actress (b. 1925)
2018 – Gabriel Gascon, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1927)
2018 – Ferenc Kovács, Former Hungarian football player and coach (b. 1934)
2018 – Aşkın Mert Şalcıoğlu, Turkish rapper, singer and songwriter (b. 2000)
2019 – Patricia Bath, American ophthalmologist (ophthalmologist), inventor, philanthropist, and academic (b. 1942)
2019 – Michel Canac, French skier (b. 1956)
2019 – William Thad Cochran, American politician (b. 1937)
2019 – Frank Lucas, American gangster (b. 1930)
2020 – Yawovi Agboyibo, Prime Minister of Togo (b. 1943)
2020 – Michael Angelis, English actor and dubbing artist (b. 1944)
2020 – Elsa Dorfman, American photographer (b. 1937)
2020 – Mady Mesplé, French opera singer (b. 1931)
2020 – Bobby Morrow, American former athlete (b. 1935)
2021 – Andriy Beşta, Ukrainian politician and diplomat (b. 1976)
2021 – Claude Landini, Swiss basketball player (b. 1926)
2022 – Milton Gonçalves, Brazilian actor, political activist, and television director (b. 1933)