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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on May 30th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On May 30, 727 or 728, we mourn the passing of one of the great characters in history, one of our favorite Saints, Saint Hubert, also known as Hubertus, the first bishop of Liège in what is now Belgium. On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc) was put to death by being burned alive at the stake for the alleged…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on May 29th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On May 29, 1733, the colonial government of New France located in Quebec City reaffirmed the right of Canadians (meaning European Canadians, citizens of New France) to own and keep slaves. On May 29, 1935, the brainchild of Willy Messerschmitt, the Bf-109, made its first flight. On May 29, 1940, the F-4U Corsair made its first flight. On May 29, 1940, the…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on May 28th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On May 28, 1802, 400 former slaves revolting against the reinstatement of slavery by the French under Napoleon Bonaparte in the Caribbean department of Guadalupe blew themselves up rather than surrender to the French. On May 28, 1830, US President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, a law allowing the President to negotiate with tribes still located in the Southern United…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on May 27th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On May 27, 1703, Czar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg, Russia. On May 27, 1907, in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the city by the bay came down with an epidemic of Bubonic Plague, the same plague responsible for the infamous “Black Death” in earlier centuries. On May 27, 1958, the McDonnell Aircraft (later McDonnell Douglas) F-4 Phantom…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on May 26th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On May 26, 946, King Edmund I of the English was unceremoniously killed in a street brawl in the conspicuously named town of Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire, England. On May 26, 1328, William of Ockham, a Franciscan Friar, snuck out of Avignon fearing his execution would be ordered by the Pope. On May 26, 1868, US President Andrew Johnson was acquitted at his impeachment trial…