May 30

In literary history

• 1593Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death at twenty-nine in a Deptford lodging house, over the bill, by a man with ties to the queen's secret service. He had been summoned before the Privy Council for atheism days earlier. He never got a trial.

The Daily Canon for May 30

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1985).