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This is a list of selected May 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago refimprove section
1434Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were decisively defeated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars in Bohemia. Battle: no footnotes; Wars: needs more footnotes
1593 – English playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death by Ingram Frizer under mysterious circumstances. refimprove section
1814 – The War of the Sixth Coalition ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which deposed Napoleon and restored Louis XVIII to the French throne. unreferenced section
1815 – The East Indiaman Arniston was wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas in South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives. tagged for {primary sources} & {reliable sources}
1911 – American race car driver Ray Harroun won the first running of the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 1911: refimprove section; 500: unreferenced section
1913 – The Treaty of London was signed to deal with territorial adjustments arising out of the conclusion of the First Balkan War, declaring, among other things, an independent Albania. refimprove section
1925Shanghai Municipal Police officers opened fire on Chinese protesters in the city's International Settlement, giving rise to a major labor and anti-imperialist movement. refimprove section
1943 – The first game of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the United States, was played. Expand section
1961 – Dominican strongman Rafael Trujillo was ambushed by a group of generals and assassinated. refimprove
1967C. Odumegwu Ojukwu announced the establishment of Biafra, a secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria, an event that sparked the Nigerian Civil War one week later. date not cited
1972 – The criminal trial of The Angry Brigade for a series of bomb attacks in London began. lead too short, refimprove section
1989Goddess of Democracy, a ten-metre (33 ft) high statue made mostly of polystyrene foam and papier-mâché, was erected by student protestors in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. unreferenced section
Albert Norden |d|1982 lead too short
Lod Massacre Remembrance Day in Puerto Rico (1972); tagged for citations

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May 30: Statehood Day in Croatia (1990)

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