May 30th in History
May 30th
1498 Christopher Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1626 An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people
On 30th May 1842 John Francis, whose father was Welsh, made his second attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria.
The previous day, Victoria had been riding in a carriage along The Mall, London, when Francis aimed a pistol at her but did not fire. However, the following day, as Victoria drove the same route Francis shot at her and was immediately seized by plain-clothes policemen.
Francis was tried and convicted of high treason, with the expected death sentence commuted to transportation for life.
On this day in 1929 Lady Megan Arfon Lloyd George (1902-1966) became Wales' first female MP when she won Anglesey for the Liberals.
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1929The British Labour Party won the general election with 287 seats.
In May 1949 Dylan and Caitlin Thomas settled at the Boat House in Laugharne..
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1969: "The Ballad Of John And Yoko" by The Beatles is released. However only its author John Lennon and Paul McCartney actually play on it due to George Harrison being on holiday and Ringo Starr away filming The Magic Christian.
1987 – David Bowie kicked off his 86 date world tour ‘The Glass Spider Tour’ on this day May 30 with a show at the Stadion Feijenoord in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The tour concluded on November 28 in Auckland, New Zealand.
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