What is the Veld of South Africa? An open grazing area of southern Africa. It is the term applied to grassy plateaus of the Republic of South Africa and of Zimbabwe.
At Rouen in English-controlled Normandy, Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who became the savior of France, is burned at the stake for heresy. Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine.
In this This Day in History video, take a look at May 30, the day in 1431 when Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy, the day in 1971 when NASA launched the space probe Mariner 9, and the day in 1989 when Chinese students were protesting at Tiananmen Square.