• Today is Wednesday, May 30, the 151st day of 2012. There are 215 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 30, 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln.
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• On this date:
• In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen (roo-AHN'), France.
• In 1883, 12 people were trampled to death in a stampede sparked by a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing.
• In 1911, the first Indy 500 took place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner was Ray Harroun, who drove a Marmon Wasp for more than 6½ hours at an average speed of 74.6 mph and collected a prize of $10,000.
• In 1912, aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright, 45, died in Dayton, Ohio, of typhoid fever more than eight years after he and his brother, Orville, launched their first airplane.
• In 1937, ten people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.
• In 1943, American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.
• In 1958, unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
• In 1962, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem had its world premiere at the new Coventry Cathedral in England.
• In 1971, the American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Fla. on a journey to Mars.
• In 1972, three members of the Japanese Red Army opened fire at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 26 people. Two attackers died; the third was captured.
• In 1981, the president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, was assassinated in a failed military coup.

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