Today in History - History - May 30th

1927Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career

1431Hundred Years' War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

1539Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovers Florida

1087German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad

1993Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament

1806Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.

2014Seth MacFarlane's "A Million Ways to Die in the West" is released to theatres, MacFarlane's first live-action role on the big screen

1967Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles

1808Napoleon Bonaparte annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate

1959"Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 perfs

1943Gale Sayers, Wichita Kansas, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)

1220Alexander Nevsky, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal, Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir, considered the key figure in medieval Rus (1252-63)

1955Brian Kobilka, Little Falls, Minnesota, American Nobel Prize winning professor

1971Idina Menzel, American actress and singer

1966Country singer Dolly Parton (20) weds Carl Dean (23) in Ringgold, Georgia

2008Film actor Charlie Sheen (42) weds socialite Brooke Mueller (30) at a private estate in Los Angeles, California

1797Abolitionist William Wilberforce (37) weds Barbara Spooner (25) at St Swithins Church in Walcot, Bath

1536English King Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, his 3rd wife

1916John Singleton Mosby, American Confederate officer, dies at 82

1431Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)

1744Alexander Pope, English poet (The Rape of the Lock), dies at 56

1960Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70

1912Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies at 45

1778Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies at 42