Today in History - History - May 30th

1986Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates

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

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

200035th Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw wins

1948Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game

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

193720th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA

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

1989Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

1912Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies at 45

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

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