WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY MAY 30

PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

2011 Germany abandons nuclear energy

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1971 NASA launches Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars.

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1967 The Republic of Biafra is proclaimed

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1962 Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is premiered

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1961 The Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo, is assassinated

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1942 The Royal Air Force launches the first 1,000 plane raid over Germany.

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1921 The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.

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1916 Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, co-discoverer of plutonium.

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1913 The First Balkan War ends.

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1912 U.S. Marines are sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests.

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1911 The first Indianapolis 500 is held

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1909 Benny Goodman, musician, big band leader.

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1908 Mel Blanc, American entertainer, vocal artist.

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1908 Hannes Alfvén, Swedish, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist.

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1903 Countee Cullen, American poet.

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