It happenned on a… 30 May

Find out about the main events that have taken place on this day over the years.

NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley, left, and Robert Behnken, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A during a dress rehearsal prior to the Demo-2 mission launch, Saturday, May 23, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls) Where: Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States When: 23 May 2020 Credit: Cover Images **Editorial use only**

2020

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying the Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station. First private company to launch astronauts into space.

2013

Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

2003

“Finding Nemo”, directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres is released.

1986

Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1935

Babe Ruth’s final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies.

1911

At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.

1832

The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.

1631

Publication of La Gazette, the first French newspaper.

1431

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