May 30th in History
1536: King Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
1842: Assassination attempt made on Queen Victoria
1934: Nazis open trials of alleged communists


May 30th birthdays
1672: Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia
1846: Peter Faberge, Russian jeweller
1896: Howard Hawks, American film director
1908: Mel Blanc, Provided many cartoon voices for Warner Brothers
1909: Benny Goodman, American bandleader

May 31st in History
1900: Boxer rebellion in China
1902: The Boer war, in South Africa, ends
1961: South Africa becomes an independent republic
1990: Soviet Legislature televised for the first time


May 31st birthdays
1819: Walt Whitman, American poet
1930: Clint Eastwood, American film actor/director

June 1st in History
1952: East Germany closes its links with West
1958: General De Gaulle named the premier of France
1973: Greece becomes a republic, scrapping its monarchy


June 1st birthdays
1926: Andy Griffith, American film and television actor
1926: Marilyn Monroe, American film actress
1937: Morgan Freeman, American film actor ('Driving Miss Daisy')

June 2nd in History
1793: Jean-Paul Marat, reciting the names of 29 "enemies of the republic", kicks of the French reign of terror.
1865: The last members of the American conferedate forces surrender, ending the American civil war.
1896: Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
1953: Summit of Everest reached for the first time
1953: Coronation of British Queen Elizabeth II


June 2nd birthdays
1740: Marquis de Sade, French author
1840: Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet
1903: Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and 'Tarzan'
1942: Barry Levinson, American film director

June 3rd in History
1098: Crusaders take Antioch, considered the first Christian city and now located in Turkey.
1940: Paris suffers heavy bombing from German aircraft
1974: Yitzhak Rabin takes over from Golda Meir as Israels premier
1989: The Chinese government sends military troops to Tianamen square, in an effort to repress pro-democracy protesters.


June 3rd birthdays
1865: King George V
1925: Tony Curtis, American film actor

June 4th in History
1903: A new element, Polonium, discovered by Curie husband and wife team
1938: Sigmund Freud leaves Austria for refuge in London
1942: Japanese suffer heavy losses at Midway Island
1970: Tonga independence


June 4th birthdays
1738: King George III
1811: Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist
1910: Christopher Cockerell, Hovercraft inventor

June 5th in History
1967: The six day war in the Middle East, between Israel and its neighbours, begins
1968: US Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles


June 5th birthdays
1878: Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary
1882: Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer and conductor

June 6th in History
1944: Invasion of Normandy, D-Day, by allied forces
1967: Egypt closes the Suez canal as Israel seizes Gaza


June 6th birthdays
1778: George (Beau) Brummell, Fashion leader
1862: Henry Newbolt, English poet
1868: Robert F. Scott, English antartic explorer
1875: Thomas Mann, German writer and Nobel prize winner

June 7th in History
1965: Monarchy restored in Morocco
1990: Hungary announces plan to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact


June 7th birthdays
1799: Alexander Pushkin, Russian playwright and poet
1848: Paul Gauguin, French artist; lived with Van Gogh for some time
1909: Jessica Tandy, American actress; 'Driving Miss Daisy'

June 8th in History
1969: Spain closes its border with Gibraltar
1986: Kurt Waldheim, former Nazi, chosen as the new Austrian president
1990: Czechoslovakia's first free elections in 44 years


June 8th birthdays
1625: Giovanni Cassini, Italian astronomer
1772: Robert Stevenson, English engineer
1810: Robert Schumann, German composer
1967: Frank LLoyd Wright, American architect