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30 May

🇮🇳 In India

1510 Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerque abandoned Goa after its former ruler Yusuf Adil Shah, the Muslim King of Bijapur, reconquered the city.

1606 Guru Arjan, first of the two Gurus martyred in the Sikh faith and the fifth of the ten total Sikh Gurus, died in Lahore, Pakistan. He compiled the first official edition of the Sikh scripture called the Adi Granth, which later expanded into the Guru Granth Sahib.

1919 Rabindranath Tagore returned his Knighthood in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

1987 Goa became India's 25th state.

🌎 Elsewhere

1431 Joan of Arc, aged 19, was condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

1498 Christopher Columbus departed with six ships for third trip to America.

1631 Publication started of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.

1912 Wilbur Wright, aeronautical inventor, died of a typhoid infection.

1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator, died.

1967 Argentinian author Gabriel García Márquez's most important work One Hundred Years of Solitude is published in Buenos Aires.

1981 The president of Bangladesh, Zia Rahman, was assassinated in Chittagong in a coup attempt.

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