Reuters historical calendar - May 30

LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 30 since 1900: 1912 - Wilbur Wright, pioneering aviator, died. With his brother Orville, he made the first ever flight in 1903.

1913 - The First Balkan war between Turkey and the Balkan states ended with the signing of the Treaty of London.

1960 - Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet, famed for his ''Doctor Zhivago'', died in Moscow.

1961 - General Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, was assassinated on the way to his farm.

1967 - Claude Rains, suave British film actor of stage and screen, died. Best known for his roles in the films ''Casablanca'' and ''Notorious''.

1969 - The British Trans-Arctic expedition completed the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean.

1971 - The U.S. probe Mariner 9 was launched on its mission to Mars. It became the first artificial satellite of Mars, sending back more than 7,000 pictures.

1980 - The first Papal visit to France since 1814 took place when John Paul II arrived in Paris.

1981 - President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh was shot by a group of rebel officers in the government guest house at Chittagong in an attempted coup by Major General Manzur Ahmed.

1992 - The United Nations Security Council voted to impose sanctions against Yugoslavia in a bid to halt fighting in Bosnia.

1999 - Fifty-two people were crushed to death when hundreds ran into an underground railway station to escape a storm in the Belarussian capital Minsk.

2001 - Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was found guilty of receiving illegal funds from oil giant Elf Aquitaine and sentenced to six months in prison.

2002 - New York marked the end of the mammoth recovery of human remains and the ruins of the World Trade Center with a brief 20 minute ceremony.

2002 - The curtain went up on Asia's first soccer World Cup when champions France played first-timers Senegal in South Korea in front of a global television audience of at least 500 million people.

Senegal caused an upset by beating France 1-0.

2004 - Saudi commandos freed 41 foreign hostages in a raid on the Oasis complex in the eastern city of Khobar, the country's oil hub, to end an attack launched by suspected al Qaeda militants. Some 22 civilians were killed.

2005 - Iranian climbers Farkhondeh Sadegh and Labeh Keshavarz became the first Muslim women to reach the top of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest.

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