May 30th ephemeris: In 2020, SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch astronauts into space

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Saint Ferdinand , born near Salamanca around 1199, died in Seville on May 30, 1252, King of Castile and first cousin of Saint Louis, Ferdinand was one of the architects of the withdrawal of the Arab invaders and made the Castilian dialect the language of the Spanish. The Ferdinands are emotional and serious. Their color: yellow. Their numbers: 3 and 8.

It happened on May 30th

1943 Musician Anna Marly, writer Joseph Kessel, and his nephew Maurice Druon compose the Chant des partisans, the anthem of the French resistance. 1996 Discovery of the seven heads of the monks of Tibhirine, murdered in Algeria. 2007 Death of French actor and director Jean-Claude Brialy. 2009 The Girondins de Bordeaux become French champions for the sixth time. 2014 President François Hollande inaugurates the Soulages Museum in Rodez.

2020 SpaceX becomes the first private company to launch astronauts into space, a historic success that provides the United States with a new means of space transportation, after a nine-year hiatus. 2022 Jacques Nicolaou, the illustrator of the famous duo who made his mark, notably on the magazine "Pif Gadget", died today in Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, near Royan (Charente-Maritime) .

Sergio Tacchini, Italian tennis player and then stylist (1938), Bertrand Delanoë, French socialist politician, former mayor of Paris (1950), Élise Lucet, French journalist (1963), Cee-Lo Green, American rapper (1974).