Wikipedia:Main Page history/2011 May 30

... that the Smålandsstövare (pictured) originates from dogs brought home by soldiers in the 16th century wars of the Swedish Empire?

... that Kenkoy was a Philippine comics character whose name became synonymous with the words joker, jester, or a hilarious person?

... that botanist Alfred Byrd Graf's richly illustrated books included some of the more than 100 plant species he had discovered on his worldwide journeys, including the first known white African Violet?

... that kalamata olives are protected under the European Protected Geographical Status scheme?

... that in the early stages of World War II the steamer Refah from neutral Turkey was torpedoed by an unidentified submarine in the eastern Mediterranean killing 168 of the 200 people aboard?

... that three Welsh boxers have won the British super-featherweight title, Neil Haddock, Robert Dickie and Floyd Havard?

... that when the steam ferry Issaquah was first launched in Lake Washington in 1914, it got stuck in mud?

President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh (pictured) dies from complications of surgery in Moscow.

The UEFA Champions League concludes with FC Barcelona defeating Manchester United in the final at Wembley Stadium.

The 2011 Indian Premier League concludes with the Chennai Super Kings defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium.

Egypt re-opens the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip.

American poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron dies at the age of 62.

1431 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, after being convicted of heresy in a politically motivated trial.

1815 – The East Indiaman ship Arniston was wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.

1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, repealing the 1820 Missouri Compromise, and allowing settlers in those territories to determine if they would permit slavery within their boundaries.

1922 – The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of the sixteenth U.S. President Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.

1967 – Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu announced the establishment of Biafra, a secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria, an event that sparked the Nigerian Civil War one week later.