Today in History - History - May 30th

195323rd French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (6-3 6-4 1-6 6-2)

1539Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto discovers Florida

1969Indianapolis 500: Mario Andretti wins in 3:11:14.689 (252.453 km/h)

1943French general Charles de Gaulle arrives in Algiers

1986Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates

1956Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium

1993Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

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

1997Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs

1642All honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament

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

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

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

1964Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1912Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies at 45