- 1431 30 May French heroine Joan of Arc is burnt at the stake in Rouen after the English find her guilty of heresy.
- 1593 30 May Leading Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is stabbed to death in a pub brawl in Deptford.
- 1942 30 May The RAF carries out its first 'thousand bomber raid', dropping 2,000 tons of bombs on Cologne, Germany.
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