Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 30

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 * 1536 – Jane Seymour, a former lady-in-waiting, married King Henry VIII, becoming the queen consort of England.
 * 1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and allowing their settlers to determine if slavery would be permitted.
 * 1866 – Bedřich Smetana's comic opera The Bartered Bride premiered in Prague.
 * 1899 – Pearl Hart, one of the few female outlaws of the American Old West, committed one of the last recorded stagecoach robberies, about 30 mi southeast of Globe, Arizona.
 * 1914 – RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnel ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.
 * 1948 – A dike holding the Columbia River broke, causing a flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon, U.S., only five years after the city was built.
 * 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand, officially opened.
 * 1972 – Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Operations, killing over 20 people and injuring almost 80 others.
 * 1998 – A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, killing at least 4,000 people, destroying more than 30 villages, and leaving 45,000 people homeless.
 * 2005 – American student Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.
 * Born/died: | Antonina Houbraken |b|1686| Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle |d|1718| Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty |b|1768| Voltaire |d|1778| José de la Borda |d|1778| Charles Dickinson |d|1806| Wyndham Halswelle |b|1882| Agnès Varda |b|1928| CeeLo Green |b|1975| Marie Fredriksson |b|1958| Marcel Bich |d|1994