Air France was the first customer for the Airbus A300, ordering six planes in September 1970. Airbus was having trouble finding clients for their launch aircraft by the time Air France placed their first A300 into service in May 1974. The 1973 oil crisis prompted an aviation slowdown, as carriers struggled to fill their current planes at higher costs demanded by more costly oil. This put a stop to investing money on newer aircraft, no matter how cost-effective they were. Airbus, like British pop acts, saw the need of expanding into the North American market.

Steven George Gerrard was born in Whiston, Merseyside, on May 30, 1980. His older brother's name is Paul. Anthony Gerrard, his cousin, is a professional footballer who plays for Oldham Athletic. Steven Gerrard is a retired English professional footballer who played as a centre midfielder for Liverpool FC and the England national team. He began his career as an academy coach at Liverpool after retiring from professional football. He spent the most of his 18-year career at Liverpool and has been the club's captain for over a decade.

Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers delivered an outstanding effort to derail Virat Kohli's fairytale season, as SRH defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 8 runs in a high-octane summit showdown to claim their first Indian Premier League championship. Sunrisers Hyderabad earned their inaugural Indian Premier League title with an eight-run triumph in a dramatic summit showdown on May 29, 2016, after Royal Challengers Bangalore bowed under the strain of a massive run chase.

The first Hindi language newspaper, 'Udant Martand' (The Rising Sun), was launched in India on this day, May 30, 1826. Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla produced the weekly newspaper from Kolkata every Tuesday. Shukla was a Kanpur-born lawyer by profession. He had relocated to Kolkata. Shukla and his buddy Munnu Thakur were granted permission to establish a Hindi newspaper on February 16, 1826. Thus, the newspaper was founded on May 30, 1826, and it was the first to be entirely published in Hindi, utilising the Devanagari alphabet.

The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, May 29, provides an opportunity to pay tribute to the invaluable contribution of uniformed and civilian personnel to the Organization's work and to honour nearly 4,200 peacekeepers who have died serving under the UN flag since 1948, including 135 last year. The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) was founded on May 29, 1948, when the Security Council authorised the deployment of a small number of UN military observers to the Middle East to monitor the Armistice Agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 58 runs in the IPL 2011 final to win the trophy for the second time in two years. CSK had a home advantage in the final, which they used to their advantage. They set up a mammoth score of 205-5 after batting first after MS Dhoni won the toss. CSK is the squad with the second-most IPL trophies in history.

The Volkswagen brand's origins began with the "Käfer," a Nazi prestige project that began development work in 1934. The "Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH" was formally created on May 28, 1937. In 1938, the name was changed to "Volkswagenwerk GmbH," and the business established its primary facility in what is now Wolfsburg. The start of war, however, and integration with the arms sector, prohibited mass manufacture of the Volkswagen ("people's car") - instead, military vehicles and other munitions were created employing forced labour.

The England opener has become the country's youngest batter to reach 10,000 Test runs, a feat formerly held by India's cricketing icon for more than a decade. Cook eclipsed Sachin's record with 5 runs in the second innings of the second Test against Sri Lanka. Cook, who turned 31 last Christmas, had amassed 9,964 Test runs prior to the commencement of this series, including 28 hundreds and 47 fifties.

Over the weekend, Jurassic International had its world premiere in Paris. Despite the fact that director Colin Trevorrow stated that he would most likely not return to helm a hypothetical sequel, the early word about Jurassic World following its debut is that he did an excellent job. Jurassic World had its world debut on May 29, 2015, at the Grand Rex theatre in Paris, France. From June 10 to 12, the film was distributed theatrically in 66 countries.

Paresh Rawal is an Indian film actor, playwright, and politician best known for his work in Bollywood. He is now a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Indian Parliament's Lok Sabha (BJP). He won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1994 for his roles in the films Woh Chokri and Sir. He won his first Filmfare Award for Best Comedian for the latter. This was followed by Ketan Mehta's Sardar, in which he played independence hero Vallabhbhai Patel, earning him national and worldwide fame.

On this day in 1912, Australia spinner Jimmy Matthews became the first and only bowler in the history of Test cricket to take two hat-tricks in a single day. Matthews, a leg-break bowler, strangely played just eight Tests in his international career, getting 16 wickets.

Edmund Hillary, a New Zealand beekeeper, and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese Sherpa, became the first persons to stand on the top of the world's highest mountain. On May 29, 1953, at 11:30 a.m., Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, became the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which stands 29,035 feet above sea level. Hillary and another New Zealander, George Lowe, were asked to join John Hunt's 1953 British Everest Expedition after climbing with British teams in the Himalayas in 1951 and 1952.