30th May

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1431 Joan of Arc, the French peasant girl who became a national heroine leading French troops against the English, was burnt at the stake in Rouen for heresy.

1536 Eleven days after he had his second wife Anne Boleyn beheaded, King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, former lady-in-waiting to Anne.

1588 The last ship of the Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

1656 The formation of the Grenadier Guards, the senior regiment of the British Army.

1842 An assassination attempt was made on Queen Victoria as she drove down Constitution Hill in London with her husband Prince Albert. The would-be assassin was John Francis.

1914 The new, and at that time the largest Cunard ocean liner, RMS Aquitania weighing 45,647 tons, set sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York City. In her 36 years of service, Aquitania had the longest service career of any 20th century express liner, a record that stood until 2004, when the Queen Elizabeth 2 (with an ultimate career service of 40 years) became the longest-serving liner.

1929 The British Labour Party won the general election with 287 seats.

1942 World War II: The RAF carried out its first 1,000 plus bombing raid of Germany, sending 1,047 aircraft to bomb Cologne.

1948 The British Citizenship Act conferred the status of British subjects on all Commonwealth citizens.

1954 Diane Leather, of Birmingham University, became the first woman to run a mile in under 5 minutes. Her time was 4 min 59.6 seconds.

1959 The first full-size experimental hovercraft, the SR-N1, built by Saunders-Roe and designed by Sir Christopher Cockerell, was launched at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

1972 The Official IRA announced a ceasefire, but the Provisional IRA said it would continue fighting until the British left Northern Ireland.

1972 The Angry Brigade, a small British anarchist group, went on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.

1978 Liverpool won the European Cup for the second year running, beating FC Bruges of Belgium 1-0, the lone goal being scored by Kenny Dalglish.

1986 England cricketer Ian Botham was banned from international matches for two months for possession of drugs.

1989 British singer Cliff Richard released his 100th single record, entitled 'The Best of Me'.

2003 The death of Mickie Most, record producer, with a string of hit singles with acts such as The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Kim Wilde and Suzi Quatro, often issued on his own RAK Records label.

2013 Mark Bridger was found guilty of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones, in a sexually motivated attack. The schoolgirl went missing on 1st October 2012 near her Machynlleth home, sparking the biggest search in UK police history. Her remains were never found, but fragments of bone consistent with a juvenile human skull were found among ashes in the woodburner at Bridger's home, along with April's blood near to a number of knives, including one which has been badly burned. From the time of his arrest, Bridger, the 37th person to be given a whole-life tariff, stuck steadfastly to his story that he could not remember where he had put April's remains.

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