Today in History: May 30, Babe Ruth plays last major league game
This day is Friday May the th day of There are days left in the year Nowadays in history On May Babe Ruth played in his last major league baseball meeting for the Boston Braves leaving after the first inning of the first encounter of a double-header against the Philadelphia Phillies Ruth released his retirement three days later Also on this date In Joan of Arc condemned as a heretic was burned at the stake in Rouen France Related Articles Protesters heckle and chant as Reps Gabe Evans Lauren Boebert tout Trump s big beautiful bill The bulk LGBTQ adults feel Americans don t accept transgender people poll finds Hit by Trump bargain wars U S market system falls in first quarter an upgrade from initial estimate This day in History May Hillary and Norgay first to summit Mount Everest Trump commutes federal life sentence of founding Gangster Disciples kingpin Larry Hoover In the first Indianapolis auto race was held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway driver Ray Harroun won the race with an average speed of mph kph In the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D C was dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G Harding Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Abraham Lincoln s surviving son -year-old Robert Todd Lincoln In ten people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago In the American space probe Mariner blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a journey to Mars In three members of the militant group known as the Japanese Red Army opened fire at Tel Aviv s Lod Airport now Ben-Gurion Airport killing people Two attackers died the third was captured In a solemn wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at ground zero in New York months after the terror attacks of September th brought down the World Agreement Center s twin towers In former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to years in prison after being convicted on counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity at a trial at The Hague In disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was taken into custody at the Texas prison where she was sentenced to spend the next years for overseeing an infamous blood-testing hoax In Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury ascertained him guilty of all charges in a scheme to illegally influence the voting process through a hush money payment to a porn actor who commented the two had sex In the present day s Birthdays Actor Keir Dullea is Actor Stephen Tobolowsky is Actor Colm Meaney is Country singer Wynonna Judd is Musician Tom Morello Audioslave Rage Against The Machine is Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is Actor-singer Idina Menzel is Rapper-singer Cee Lo Green is
