Today in history

May 30

1538
First of Hernando de Soto’s conquistadors land on Florida coast.
1779
General Washington orders Iroquois suppressed. A scorched-earth policy, in which dozens of villages were burned,follows.
1921
The Tulsa Race Riot
1678
Tax protester Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry, England
1955
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered (in a decision known as “Brown II”) that school integration be done “with all deliberate speed,” ordering the lower federal courts to require desegregation. Between 1955 and 1960, federal judges held more than 200 school desegregation hearings.

BROWN V. BOARD: Timeline of School Integration in the U.S.

1957
U.S. playwright Arthur Miller was convicted of contempt of Congress after refusing to reveal the names of alleged Communist writers.

1966
Nguyen Thi Can, a 17-year-old Buddhist girl, committed suicide by setting herself afire (self-immolation) on a street in the city of Hue. She was protesting against the South Vietnamese regime; it was the fifth such death in three days.

1973
A bipartisan majority (69-19) of the U.S. Senate voted to cut off funds for the bombing of Cambodia despite pleas from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.