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Today in HISTORY

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YEARDAYEVENT
30BCAug 30Cleopatra, the 7th and most famous queen of ancient Egypt, committed suicide about this time.
526Aug 30Theodorik the Great (72), King of Ostrogoths, died of dysentery. He was succeeded by his grandson Athalaric (10), who reigned until 534 with his mother Amalasuntha as regent.
1146Aug 30European leaders outlawed the crossbow with the intention to end war for all time.
1481Aug 30Two Latvian monarchs were executed for conspiracy to murder Polish king Kazimierz IV.
1617Aug 30Rosa de Lima of Peru became the first American saint to be canonized.
1645Aug 30Dutch & Indians signed peace treaty in New Amsterdam (NY).
1682Aug 30William Penn left England to sail to New World. He took along an insurance policy.
1721Aug 30The Peace of Nystad ended the Second Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia considerably more power in the Baltic region.
1751Aug 30Georg Friedrich Handel completed his last oratorio “Jephtha.”
1781Aug 30The French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse arrived in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the American Revolution. The fleet defeated British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes.
1813Aug 30Creek Indians massacred over 500 whites at Fort Mims Alabama.
1831Aug 30Charles Darwin refused to travel with the HMS Beagle. On Dec 27 he was onboard.
1841Aug 30Robert Peel (1788-1850) became PM of Britain for a 2nd time. This was the 1st occasion in which Britain’s government was brought down by the votes of the electorate.
1854Aug 30John Fremont issued a proclamation freeing the slaves of Missouri rebels.
1860Aug 30The first British tramway was inaugurated at Birkenhead by an American, George Francis Train.
1862Aug 30In the Battle of Altamont, Tennessee, Confederates beat Union forces.
1885Aug 30Some 13,000 meteors were seen in 1 hour near Andromeda.
1892Aug 30The Moravia, a passenger ship arriving from Germany, brought cholera to the United States.
1901Aug 30Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner.
1905Aug 30Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut, playing for the Detroit Tigers, hitting a double in his first at-bat in a game against the NY Highlanders. The Tigers won, 5-3.
1914Aug 30The 1st German plane bombed Paris and 2 people were killed. Nehru requested the independence of India.
1932Aug 30Nazi leader Hermann Goering was elected president of the Reichstag.
1933Aug 30Portuguese dictator Salazar formed secret police (PIDE).
1939Aug 30Isoroku Yamamoto was appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet
1941Aug 30The World War II siege of Leningrad began as Nazi forces took Mga.
1944Aug 30Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, fell to Soviet troops.
1945Aug 30Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan and set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1956Aug 30A white mob prevented the enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas.
1960Aug 30East Germany imposed a partial blockade on West Berlin.
1961Aug 30President John F. Kennedy appointed General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin.
1963Aug 30Guy Burgess (b.1911), British spy for the USSR, died in Moscow.
1967Aug 30The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1974Aug 30The Telluride Film Festival was started by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy and Jim Card in the town of Telluride, Colorado.
1981Aug 30Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, was assassinated by a bomb.
1982Aug 30Palestinian Liberation Organization left Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to Tunis, Tunisia.
1983Aug 30Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space, blasting off aboard the Challenger.
1984Aug 30In Florida NASA launched the US space shuttle Discovery on its 1st mission.
1987Aug 30A redesigned space shuttle booster, created in the wake of the Challenger disaster, roared into life in its first full-scale test-firing near Brigham City, Utah.
1988Aug 30Top aides to Republican presidential nominee George Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis met in Washington without reaching agreement on a schedule for fall debates.
1989Aug 30A federal jury in New York found “hotel queen” Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion but acquitted her of extortion. Helmsley served 18 months behind bars, a month at a halfway house and two months under house arrest.
1990Aug 30President Bush told a news conference that a “new world order” could emerge from the Gulf crisis.
1992Aug 30The television series “Northern Exposure” won six Emmy Awards, including best drama series, while “Murphy Brown” received three Emmys, including best comedy series, in a ceremony marked by satirical jabs directed at Vice President Dan Quayle.
1995Aug 30Cable News Network joined the internet (“This is CNN”).
1996Aug 30President Clinton and Vice President Gore, fresh from their renominations at the just-concluded Democratic National Convention in Chicago, set out with their wives on a bus caravan through America’s heartland.
1999Aug 30In Jordan police in Amman stormed offices linked to the radical Palestinian Hamas movement.
2000Aug 30In China’s Fujian province police arrested a Catholic priest, 20 nuns, 2 laymen and a seminarian in Luoyuan county. Rev. Liu Shaozhang (38) was reported to have been severely beaten and that parishioners bought the release of 2 nuns.
2001Aug 30It was reported that some 40,000 tax forms were destroyed or concealed at a Pittsburgh processing center run by Mellon Bank.
2002Aug 30In Washington, DC, some 35,000 gathered for the 39th annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America.
2003Aug 30Harley-Davidson celebrated its 100th anniversary in Milwaukee with a parade of 10,000 motorcycles. Some 250,000 bikers packed the roads around Milwaukee for a 3-day celebration.
2004Aug 30US warplanes bombed Weradesh village in eastern Afghanistan, killing 8 people and destroying the camp of a Danish relief group after assailants rocketed a nearby government office.
2005Aug 30Lebanon’s PM Fuad Saniora said the commander of the Presidential Guards, three former security chiefs and a former lawmaker are suspects in the Feb 14 assassination of former PM Rafik Hariri.
2006Aug 30In California Gov. Schwarzenegger and Democrats struck a deal to require state industries to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
2007Aug 30In a serious breach of nuclear security, a US B-52 bomber armed with six nuclear warheads flew cross-country unnoticed; the Air Force later punished 70 people.
2008Aug 30In Black Rock City, Nevada, the 40-foot Burning Man was set aflame. This year’s festival, themed the American Dream, was marked by a 10-story steel frame tower built by union workers of recycled materials. The annual guidebook reached 77 pages.
2009Aug 30In Utah a fire, which already destroyed 3 houses and covered over 15 square miles, threatened the rural town of New Harmony.
2010Aug 30It was reported that over $5 billion in American aid to Iraq has been wasted on abandoned or incomplete projects. This was over 10% of US reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
2011Aug 30The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced that they had arrested 7 men in Utah, alleged members of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. Cashes of guns, cash and drugs were seized.
2012Aug 30A federal court rejected a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November.
2013Aug 30The United States found itself with France as its only major partner in a potential strike against Syria, after a stunning rejection of military force in Parliament forced Britain, America’s staunchest ally, to pull out of any operation.
2014Aug 30In eastern Afghanistan 2 men blew up their vehicles at the gate of the provincial intelligence office in Jalalabad and six others then opened fire. 4 Afghan intelligence forces were killed. All the militants were killed by security forces.

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