May 30^th in history

Encyclopædia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history:

Clint Eastwood: Biography of the Day

Clint Eastwood

"Go ahead, make my day."

Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact (1983)

American film actor Clint Eastwood, born this day in 1930, emerged as one of the most popular Hollywood stars in the 1970s, playing such laconic and dangerous heroes as Dirty Harry, and later became an Oscar-winning director.

 

Adolf Eichmann hanged: 31 May 1962 - This Day in History

On this day in 1962, the State of Israel hanged German official Adolf Eichmann, who had escaped from a prison camp in 1946 and spent some 14 years in hiding, for his part in the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II.

More Events on this day:

1943: American gridiron football player Joe Namath was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

1916: The Battle of Jutland, an encounter between British and German naval fleets in World War I, began.

1910: Louis Botha formed the first government of the Union of South Africa.

1889: Considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history, a flood ravaged Johnstown, Pennsylvania, causing more than 2,200 deaths.

1819: American poet, essayist, and journalist Walt Whitman was born on Long Island, New York.

1790: The United States established copyright law.