^B{^#!16!30 May^N! Feast day of St Hubert, St Joan of Arc, St Ferdinand, St Exuperiantius of Ravenna, St Isaac of Constantinople, St Luke Kirby, St Madelgisilus, and St Walstan.
^B{1431^B} Joan of Arc was burned as a heretic at Rouen, France. ^B{1536^B} English King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, his third wife. ^B{1592^B} The Spanish defeated an English force under Sir John Norris at Cranon, Brittany. ^B{1913^B} A peace treaty between Turkey and the Balkan states was signed in London, UK. ^B{1925^B} The shooting of Chinese students by municipal police in Shanghai and other incidents in Canton provoked a Chinese boycott of British goods. ^B{1929^B} The British Labour Party won the general election with 287 seats. ^B{1948^B} The British Citizenship Act conferred the status of British subjects on all Commonwealth citizens.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Peter the Great, tsar of Russia, ^B{1672^B}; Henry Addington, British politician, ^B{1757^B}; Peter Carl FabergΘ, Russian goldsmith and jeweler, ^B{1846^B}; Howard Hawks, US film director, ^B{1896^B}; Benny Goodman, US bandleader, ^B{1909^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, ^B{1593^B}; Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, ^B{1640^B}; Alexander Pope, English poet and satirist, ^B{1744^B}; Franτois Boucher, French painter, ^B{1770^B}; Voltaire, French author and philosopher, ^B{1778^B}; Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet, ^B{1960^B}; Claude Rains, British-born film actor, ^B{1967^B}.
