May 30 1431
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen, France for relapsing into heresy. After having signed a confession a week earlier, Joan appeared in court wearing difformitate habitus -- odious apparel -- or, more precisely, men's clothing.
May 30 1593
After a night of drinking, Elizabethan playwright Christoper Marlowe is killed in the boarding house of Eleanor Bull. The official determination is that Ingram Frizer stabbed Marlowe in the head while they were fighting over the bill.
May 30 1942
Returning home from a night of drinking and reminiscing about the recent death of John Barrymore, movie star Errol Flynn flips on the lights and is horrified to discover Barrymore's corpse propped up in a living room chair. Some of Flynn's friends had given a funeral director $200 to borrow the body for a couple of hours.
May 30 1961
After a group of armed men ambushes the Chevrolet carrying Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator attempts to bargain with them. He is shot five times point-blank, and dies face down in the street.
some useless bs..im bored..
Jared