Shavuot begins at sundown on this day. Called the Feast of the Weeks in the Jewish calendar, Shavuot is a two-day holiday that was originally a harvest festival. It’s also a thanksgiving day to commemorate the Giving of the Law, the Torah, recalling when Moses and the Israelites received the Ten Commandments from God at Mount Sinai. Shavuot, which means weeks, always begins exactly seven weeks after Passover. Shavuot is known also as Yom Habikkurim, or “The Day of the First Fruits,” because Israel’s farmers would bring a bundle from their first harvest to the temple in Jerusalem as a token of thanksgiving to God. Spring harvests in Israel began with the barley crop at Passover. Each farmer would set aside the first of each type of fruit to ripen, tie it in ribbon, and all would be brought to the city, accompanied by a joyful, musical celebration.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2028
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 –