On May 30, 1958, unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (Go to article.)

1431 Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

1539 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.

1854 The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.

1883 A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing triggered a stampede that led to the trampling deaths of 12 people.

1911 The first long-distance auto race in Indianapolis was won by Ray Harroun.

1922 The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1943 American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.

1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean War were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

1982 Spain became NATO’s 16th member.

1982 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.

1989 Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing erected a 33-foot statue they called the “Goddess of Democracy.”

1996 Britain’s Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.

1997 Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired “Megan’s Law,” which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.

2002 A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

2005 American teenager Natalee Holloway, during a visit to Aruba, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men before disappearing; her fate remains unknown.

2006 A jury in Rockville, Md., convicted John Allen Muhammad of six of the Washington-area sniper killings.

2006 The FBI said it had found no trace of Jimmy Hoffa after digging up a suburban Detroit horse farm.

Source: NY Times