He served On May 30, , future President Andrew Jackson kills a man who accused him of cheating on a horse race bet and then insulted his wife, Rachel. The amateur bandit Pearl Hart and her boyfriend hold up an Arizona stagecoach on May 30, She was born in Ontario, Canada in , and moved to Toronto as a child.
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Playwright Christopher Marlowe, 29, is killed in a brawl over a bar tab on this day. Marlowe, born two months before William Shakespeare, was the son of a Canterbury shoemaker. A bright student, he won scholarships to prestigious schools and earned his B. When he did not show up for work, investigators searched Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Washington, D.
The summit meeting centered on the issue of Germany and its place in a changing Europe. When Gorbachev arrived for this second summit meeting with President Bush, his The Indiana automobile dealer Carl Fisher first proposed building a private auto testing facility in On May 30, , a peace treaty is signed ending the First Balkan War, in which the newly aligned Slavic nations of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece had driven Turkish forces out of Macedonia, a territory of the Ottoman Empire located in the tumultuous Balkans region of Live TV.
This Day In History. History Vault. Space Exploration. Sign Up. Art, Literature, and Film History. Cold War. World War I. During her battles against the English and armies of the Duke of Burgundy, Joan was said to hear voices from a trio of saints telling her to deliver France from her enemies.
She was finally captured and sold to the English, who had her tried for witchcraft in Rouen. Joan of Arc was declared a saint in The Shroud of Turin was believed to be Christ's burial garment from the time of its emergence in At its first exhibition in , it was denounced as a fake by the Bishop of Troyes. Ever since its authenticity has been questioned.
Carbon dating of the cloth in determined that it originated sometime between and The Catholic Church has accepted that the shroud may not be genuine, but says it should still be revered because it bears an inspiring image of Jesus.
An exhibition in Russia in included a display of a fragment of Hitler's skull. Organisers of 'The Agony of the Third Reich: Retribution' said the skull was authentic, but this claim has been rejected by some experts.
Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker in , and his body was burnt and buried in a shallow grave. The facts about what happened to his remains have not been fully established. A coffin held in church in Padua since may contain the remains of St Luke. Tests carried out by scientists in confirmed it was of the same Syrian origin as the author of the third Gospel.
Carbon-dating tests suggested the body belonged to someone who died in the period of Luke's death, believed to be around AD Hair and fragments of the funeral cloth from the mummy of Ramses II were recently posted for sale on the internet.
Police arrested the vendor, a postman from France, who said he had been given the pieces by his father, a researcher on a team that analysed the mummy in the s. Ramses the Great's reign, between and BC, was the second longest in Egyptian history. Initially, the trial was held in public, but it went private when Joan bettered her accusers. Between February 21 and March 24, , she was interrogated nearly a dozen times by a tribunal, always keeping her humility and steadfast claim of innocence.
Instead of being held in a church prison with nuns as guards, she was held in a military prison. Joan was threatened with rape and torture, though there is no record that either actually occurred. Frustrated they could not break her, the tribunal eventually used her military clothes against her, charging that she dressed like a man. On May 29, , the tribunal announced Joan of Arc was guilty of heresy. On the morning of May 30, she was taken to the marketplace in Rouen and burned at the stake, before an estimated crowd of 10, people.
She was 19 years old. One legend surrounding the event tells of how her heart survived the fire unaffected. Her ashes were gathered and scattered in the Seine. King Charles VII ultimately retained his crown, and he ordered an investigation that in declared Joan of Arc to be officially innocent of all charges and designated a martyr. She was canonized as a saint on May 16, , and is the patron saint of France.
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