Wikipedia:Main Page history/2019 May 30

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

From today's featured article

Scarlett Johansson (born 1984) is an American actress and singer. Her performance in Lost in Translation (2003) won her a BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for Golden Globe Awards for this film and for playing a 17th-century housemaid in Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), an estranged teenager in the drama A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), and a seductress in the psychological thriller Match Point (2005). Her albums Anywhere I Lay My Head (2008) and Break Up (2009) charted on the Billboard 200. In 2010, Johansson debuted on Broadway in a revival of A View from the Bridge, which won her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. Later that year, she began portraying Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She voiced an intelligent computer operating system in the 2013 comedy-drama Her, played an alien in the 2013 science fiction film Under the Skin and a woman with psychokinetic abilities in the 2014 science fiction action film Lucy. She was the highest-grossing actress of 2016, and is also the highest-grossing actress of all time in North America in nominal dollar terms. (Full article...)

Recently featured:

Did you know...

Kaufhaus Tyrol

... that Dieter Mathoi and David Chipperfield designed the department store Kaufhaus Tyrol (pictured) in the historic centre of Innsbruck, causing much controversy?
... that the murder of Santos Rodriguez galvanized the Mexican-American community in Dallas?
... that the soprano Elżbieta Szmytka recorded Chopin's Polish songs and performed in Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, celebrating a century of Polish independence?
... that Green Street may have been named after a man who fell down a well?
... that Clark Hubbs was notorious for his collection of clothing depicting fish?
... that Michigan state highway M-343 between Kalamazoo and Richland was part of the M-43 highway for a century until Kalamazoo wanted to assert control over several streets in the city's downtown?
... that although Zhou Tongqing led the development of China's first X-ray tube, he was denounced as a "bourgeois intellectual" and persecuted during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Cultural Revolution?
... that Len Lye's abstract animation A Colour Box was protested by Nazis in 1936?

In the news

Theresa May

In the European Parliament election, the centre-right and centre-left lose seats, while the liberals, far-right, and greens and regionalists make the largest gains.
British Prime Minister Theresa May (pictured), under pressure over her handling of Brexit, announces her intention to resign.
A prison riot in Acarigua, Venezuela, leaves 29 prisoners dead and 19 guards injured.
A fire at a commercial complex in Surat, India, kills 22 students in a coaching centre.
The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies, led by Narendra Modi, win a majority in the Indian general election.

On this day

May 30: Lod Massacre Remembrance Day in Puerto Rico

Joan of Arc

1431 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc (pictured) was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, after being convicted of heresy.
1854 – The Kansas–Nebraska Act became law, establishing the U.S. territories of Nebraska and Kansas, and allowing their settlers to determine if slavery would be permitted.
1914 – RMS Aquitania, the last surviving four-funnelled ocean liner, departed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1963 – Buddhist crisis: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration against President Ngô Đình Diệm.
2008 – The Convention on Cluster Munitions, prohibiting the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs, was adopted.

Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty (b. 1768) · Charles Dickinson (d. 1806) · Marie Fredriksson (b. 1958)

More anniversaries:

Today's featured picture

Alessandro Martinelli (born 30 May 1993) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie B club Brescia. Born in Mendrisio, Ticino, he moved south to Italy to begin his professional career in 2009. Martinelli then left the reserve team of Sampdoria in 2012 for Portosummaga. After returning to Sampdoria in 2013, he was signed by Venezia later that year and then by Modena in 2014. Martinelli left for Brescia in 2015 and joined the club on a permanent basis in 2017. From 2008 to 2013, he also played for various Swiss national youth football teams.

This picture, taken in 2015, shows Martinelli playing for Modena in a match against Ternana.

Photograph credit: Matteo Brama

Recently featured:

Other areas of Wikipedia

Community portal – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas.
Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.
Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.
Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects.
Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.