Daily Calendar for Saturday, May 30, 2026
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Saturday, May 30, 2026
Born
- Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (first premier of Quebec after Confederation) –
- Norman Cota (U.S. brigadier general) –
- Howard Hawks (director of film) –
- Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny and other characters) –
- Benny Goodman (musician & bandleader) –
- Wynonna Judd (country music singer) –
- Manny Ramirez (baseball player) –
Died
- Wilbur Wright (aviator) –
- Boris Pasternak (writer) –
- Marcel Dupré (composer) –
- Perry Ellis (fashion designer) –
- Gus Wickstrom (retired farmer who used pig spleens to forecast the weather [claimed 90% accuracy]) –
Events
- U.S. and Mexico ratifications of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo exchanged at Queretaro. (Treaty was originally signed on Feb. 2, 1848.) –
- First U.S. national celebration of Memorial (Decoration) Day took place in the Arlington National Cemetery of Virginia –
- First 500 mile automobile race at Indianapolis Speedway was held –
- Lincoln Memorial dedicated in Washington, D.C. –
- From Cape Kennedy, Florida, the U.S. launched Mariner 9, first spacecraft to orbit another planet –
- The European Space Agency was established in Paris. –
- Boston Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury stole five bases during his team’s 9-2 win against the Philadelphia Phillies. It was a club record. –
- Thirteen-year-old Arvind Mahankali, of Bayside Hills, New York, correctly spelled knaidel to become the champion of the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee, in Oxon Hill, Maryland –
- May 30-31: 8 co-champions were declared for the Scripps Spelling Bee –
- NASA’s Curiousity rover discovered rocks made of pure sulfur on the surface of Mars. –
Weather
- Massive flooding of Columbia River caused dike break that destroyed Vanport, Oregon –
- Hanford, Washington, had a temperature of 104 degrees F –
- Yakima, Washington, hit 102 degrees F –
- two inches of hail fell in Oregon’s Deschutes, Grant, and Umatilla counties –