Today is Thursday, May 30, the 150th day of 2013. There are 215 days left in the year.
1783 ― Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes first daily newspaper in U.S.
1814 ― First Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon’s first abdication
1872 ― Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1889 ― The brassiere is invented
1913 ― First Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1958 ― Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington
1965 ― France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (underground)
1967 ― Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
1967 ― Robert “Evel" Knievel’s motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1972 ― Three Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv’s Lod International Airport