Today is Saturday, May 30, the 150th day of 2015. There are 215 days left in the year.
1536 ― English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
1783 ― Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes first daily newspaper in U.S.
1814 ― First Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon’s first abdication
1821 ― James Boyd patents rubber fire hose
1848 ― William G. Young patents ice-cream freezer
1872 ― Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1889 ― The brassiere is invented
1896 ― First car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1913 ― First Balkan War ends; Treaty of London
1958 ― Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII and Korean War buried in Arlington
1968 ― President De Gaulle disbands French parliament