Spanish
- International Design Day
- Morse Code Day
Saints: Our Lady of Montserrat and Zita. Saints, Anthony
Nationals:
395. Roman Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto, becoming one of the most powerful empresses of the late Antiquity. 1667. In England, the writer John Milton, blind and impoverished, sells the copyright of his book Paradise Lost for 10 pounds sterling. 1850. The Ministry of Finance orders the issuance of banknotes in the amount necessary to collect $60,000 in gold, for the purpose of financing the government's war expenses. 1860. President Pedro Santana writes to the Queen of Spain in terms that leave no doubt that his government's interest was to annex the country to Spain, a nation from which, Santana said, "the Dominicans should never have separated." 1895. Antonio Maceo receives the news of the arrival in Cuba, through the Eastern zone, of the political leader of the revolution, José Martí and the Dominican general Máximo Gómez. 1957. Lawyer Joaquín Balaguer, being Secretary of the Presidency, is temporarily in charge of the Secretariat of State for Foreign Affairs. 1962. The Council of State declares May 30th a public holiday, non-working day, and a group of citizens pronounces in favor of granting the rank of general to the survivors of the execution of the tyrant Rafael Trujillo, Antonio Imbert Barreras and Luis Amiama Tió. 1963. In Haiti, armed troops and civil militia surround the Dominican, Brazilian, and Venezuelan embassies where at least 48 Haitians had taken refuge, including former army officers and their families. 1965. The evacuation of U.S. citizens begins through the port of Haina, while the aircraft carrier “Boxer” approaches the Dominican coast with 1,500 “marines” on board. - President Rafael Molina Ureña appoints, among other officials, Colonel Francisco Alberto Caamaño as Minister of the Interior. - The Navy, which had until then remained on the sidelines, joins Wessin's forces and also bombs the Government Palace from its ships. 1967. President Joaquín Balaguer is informed by the Undersecretary of Interior and Police, Lépido Lozada Grullón, about statements made in Pedernales by the senator of that province, Pablo Rafael Casimiro Castro, regarding a political conflict in that demarcation, days before being the target of an attack in the capital. 1972. The Senate removes the trustee of the National District, Manuel Antonio (Manolín) Jiménez Rodríguez, after being accused by President Joaquín Balaguer before the Chamber of Deputies of alleged conspiracy against his government. 1976. Pope Paul VI ordains the Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Monsignor Octavio A. Beras, as the first Cardinal of the Dominican Republic. 1988. In Caracas, Venezuela, the Dominican musician, Luis María Frómeta Pereira (Billo Frómeta) suffers a stroke while rehearsing with the Caracas Symphony Orchestra for a show commemorating his 50 years in art. He died on May 5, 2007. The Tax and Administrative Litigation Court accepts a request filed by the journalist Luis Eduardo (Huchi) Lora and orders the National Office for Transportation Reorganization to immediately deliver copies of the plans for the Santo Domingo metro and the Villa Duarte elevated viaduct. 2011. Retired General Joaquín Pou Castro dies at the age of 70, who was serving a 30-year sentence for the murder of journalist Orlando Martínez, director of the magazine Ahora. 2014. The Blue Jays Major League team structures a roster of eight Dominican players in a game held at the Rogers Centre stadium in Toronto, against the Boston Red Sox. 2020. With the purpose of facing the effects of covid-19, the health authorities announce the formation of the Council of International Experts, to promote the exchange of experiences, updates of protocols, information, case studies, scientific and epidemiological follow-up, through meetings with various world-renowned institutions.International:
1521. Natives in the Philippines kill Hernando de Magellan. 1821. In León, Argentina, a group of gauchos from Jujuy under the command of Colonel José Ignacio Gorriti, defeat the Spanish army. 1832. The French Foreign Legion enters combat for the first time, in the area of the Maison-Carrée, near Algiers. 1927. Chilean President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo ordered the founding of the police force, the Carabineros de Chile. 1956. Undefeated heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano retires from the sport. 1960. The Republic of Togo proclaims its independence.1970. The independence of Togo is proclaimed.1961. Sierra Leone announces its Independence. 1969. The President of Bolivia, General René Barrientos, dies charred when the helicopter he was traveling in gets its propellers tangled with electrical wires. 1978. Afghan President Mohammed Daud Kham dies during the coup that brings General Nur Mohammad Taraki to power. 1989. Chinese students occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 1992. Serbia and Montenegro proclaim the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 1998. Monsignor Juan Gerardi, a bishop who defended human rights, is murdered in Guatemala. 2000. About 985 people are murdered by an apocalyptic sect in Uganda. 2006. An armed group assassinates in Baghdad the sister of the Iraqi vice president, the Sunni Tarek al Hashemi, and one of his companions. 2008. Former Colombian congresswoman Yidis Medina surrenders to the Prosecutor's Office, which had accused her of bribery, after denouncing alleged favors received from the government in exchange for voting in favor of a constitutional reform that allowed the re-election of Alvaro Uribe, which is denied by the government. 2010. Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega is extradited to France from a prison in Miami (United States), to be tried on charges of money laundering. 2011. A Costa Rican court sentences former president and former OAS Secretary General in 2004, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, to five years in prison after being accused of receiving bribes from the French telecommunications company Alcatel. 2013. Six suspects are arrested in connection with the collapse of a building in Bangladesh in which around 350 people die, while rescuers acknowledge that the voices of the survivors are heard more faintly after four days of being trapped. 2014. Popes John XXIII and John Paul II were proclaimed saints in a historic and massive ceremony in which Pope Francis highlights that both "restored and updated the Church" to its original image. 2020. The United States records 1,303 new deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to figures published by Johns Hopkins University, which estimates the number of cases in that country close to a million. 2021. The President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, enacts the law that allows a new early withdrawal of 10% of private pension funds, after the Constitutional Court declared inadmissible the challenge presented by the Government against the project.- In Bolivia, the de facto government headed by Jeanine Áñez, is accused of allegedly hiring, with state resources, journalists to carry out work that would discredit former President Evo Morales and reinforce the thesis that in that nation there was no coup d'état, but constitutional succession.Births
1822: Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President and Civil War leader.1947: Maria del Mar Bonet, Spanish singer.
1960: Martín Berasategui, renowned Spanish chef. 1961: Nacho García Vega, Spanish musician, member of Nacha Pop.1976: Sally Hawkins, British actress known for The Shape of Water.
1982: Jenna Coleman, British actress (Doctor Who).
1987: Jonathan Castroviejo, Spanish cyclist.
1991: Isaac Cuenca, Spanish footballer.Deaths:
483 B.C.: Buddha, founder of Buddhism.
1521: Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer.
1873: William Macready, British actor.1915: Aleksandr Scriabin, Russian composer and pianist.
1932: Hart Crane, American poet.
1952: Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and statistician.
