May 30

• 1979

  Downeast Airlines Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.

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• 1982

  Cold War: Spain joins NATO.

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• 1989

  Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

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• 1990

  Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.

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• 1998

  Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.

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• 1999

  53 people are killed in a stampede at the Nyamiha metro station in Minsk, Belarus.

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• 2008

  Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.

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• 2008

  TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.

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• 2012

  Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

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• 2013

  Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.

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• 2020

  Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.

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• 2024

  Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case.

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1. 
   2002

   Natty, Thai singer based in South Korea

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2. 
   2000

   Jared S. Gilmore, American actor

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3. 
   1999

   Eddie Nketiah, English footballer

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4. 
   1999

   Guanyu Zhou, Chinese race car driver

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5. 
   1997

   Jung Eun-bi, South Korean singer and actress

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6. 
   1997

   Charlie Hall, American actor

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   1997

   Jake Short, American actor

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8. 
   1996

   Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player

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   1996

   Aleksandr Golovin, Russian footballer

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10. 
    1994

    Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player

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11. 
    1992

    Harrison Barnes, American basketball player

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12. 
    1992

    Danielle Harold, English actress

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