May 30: Lod Massacre Remembrance Day in Puerto Rico
- 1431 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, after being convicted of heresy in a politically motivated trial.
- 1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston was wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
- 1948 – A dike holding the Columbia River broke, causing a flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon, US, only five years after it was built.
- 1967 – Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu announced the establishment of Biafra, a secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria, an event that sparked the Nigerian Civil War one week later.
- 2005 – American student Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, and caused a media sensation in the United States.
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