Also on May 30
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Day of the Canary Islands (ES) · Kurban Bayramı (TR)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Islamic: Hajj major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2013 — Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage. ↗
- 2012 — Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone... ↗
- 2008 — Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted. ↗
- 2003 — Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma.... ↗
- 1998 — The 6.5 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1996 — Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player
- 1994 — Ivars Punnenovs, Latvian ice hockey player
- 1994 — Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 — Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
- 1990 — Mustafa Akbaş, Turkish footballer
🏀 Sports on this Date
- MLB: Kansas City Royals @ Texas Rangers — 00:05 Scheduled
- MLB: Milwaukee Brewers @ Houston Astros — 00:10 Scheduled
- MLB: Chicago Cubs @ St. Louis Cardinals — 00:15 Scheduled
- MLB: San Francisco Giants @ Colorado Rockies — 00:40 Scheduled
- MLB: New York Yankees @ Athletics — 01:40 Scheduled
- WNBA: Atlanta Dream @ Portland Fire — 02:00 Scheduled