History's August 30
    2015 Rap artist Kanye West announces he will run for President in 2020 at the MTV Video Music Awards
    2015 15th World Championships in Athletics close at Beijing, China
    2015 English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked for MI6 for more than 20 years
    2015 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad calls for the removal of current Prime Minister Najib Razak during 2nd day of street protests
    2013 15 people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China
    2013 "12 Years a Slave" based on the memoir by Solomon Northup, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2014)
    2012 Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
    2012 A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
    2012 Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open
    2006 63rd Venice Film Festival: "Still Life" directed by Jia Zhangke wins Golden Lion
    2006 Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game
    2000 57th Venice Film Festival: "Dayereh" directed by Jafar Panahi wins Golden Lion
    1999 East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
    1997 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
    1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)
    1995 52nd Venice Film Festival: "Cyclo" directed by Anh Hung Tran wins Golden Lion
    1995 Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
    1995 Cable News Network joins internet
    1994 Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
    1994 Gund Arena in Cleve opens
    1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
    1993 Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
    1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
    1992 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 performances
    1992 David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
    1992 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
    1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
    1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
    1991 Mike Powell of US sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
    1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
    1990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
    1990 Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
    1988 France performs nuclear test
    1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
    1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
    1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10½")
    1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
    1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
    1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m after Ben Johnson is disqualified
    1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
    1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
    1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
    1986 43rd Venice Film Festival: "Le rayon vert" directed by Eric Rohmer wins Golden Lion
    1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
    1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
    1984 Sotheby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
    1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
    1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
    1983 Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
    1983 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
    1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
    1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
    1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
    1981 Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
    1979 -Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep
    1979 1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun (energy=1 million hydrogen bombs)
    1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses
    1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
    1979 US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga
    1979 Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie N?stase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
    1976 Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
    1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
    1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
    1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
    1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
    1974 Express train runs at full speed into Zagreb, Yugoslavia, rail yard killing 153
    1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings
    1972 John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
    1971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
    1969 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival
    1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
    1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
    1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
    1968 John & Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at Madison Square Garden
    1968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
    1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
    1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
    1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
    1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
    1963 Hotline communication link between Pentagon (Washington, D.C.) and the Klemlin (Moscow) installed
    1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
    1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
    1961 J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
    1961 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
    1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
    1961 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
    1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
    1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
    1958 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
    1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
    1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
    1956 Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
    1956 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
    1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas
    1954 Hurricane Carol kills 68 on the US East Coast
    1951 US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
    1949 WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
    1949 Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
    1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
    1945 Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
    1945 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
    1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japanese
    1944 Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta" premieres in NYC
    1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
    1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
    1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
    1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
    1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
    1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
    1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
    1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
    1939 Poland mobilizes
    1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
    1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
    1933 Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
    1933 Air France forms
    1932 Hermann Goering elected Chairman of the Reichstag
    1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
    1927 41st U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall Shoemaker (6-1, 6-4)
    1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
    1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
    1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in
    1919 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung" premieres in Berlin
    1918 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia
    1918 Czechoslovakia forms independent republic
    1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
    1914 Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army ca. 170,000 killed or injured
    1914 1st German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed
    1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
    1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
    1910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
    1909 Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
    1906 NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
    1906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
    1905 Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
    1905 Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
    1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
    1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
    1900 Last 2,000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt, South Africa, freed
    1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
    1896 Eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. Including provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite and Nueva Ecija
    1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
    1894 Frederick Lugard's expedition to Niger
    1892 12th U.S. Men's National Championship: Oliver Campbell beats Fred Hovey (7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5)
    1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products
    1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1,070 grouse in a single day
    1887 7th U.S. Men's National Championship: Richard Sears beats Henry Slocum (6-1, 6-3, 6-2)
    1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
    1884 Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
    1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
    1862 Last day of 2nd Battle of Bull Run Va - Confederates beat Union forces
    1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
    1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
    1861 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
    1860 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
    1850 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city
    1843 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
    1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
    1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.
    1831 Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
    1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
    1800 Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
    1799 Batavian fleet surrenders to British
    1791 Thomas Jefferson responds to Benjamin Banneker's letter on the issue of slavery
    1791 HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day, on her return from her search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her
    1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in American Revolutionary War
    1776 US army evacuates Long Island and falls back to Manhattan, NYC
    1757 Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
    1751 George Frideric Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
    1721 Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
    1682 William Penn left England to sail to New World
    1673 Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
    1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
    1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
    1574 Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
    1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, expelled
    1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Casimir IV
    1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
    1363 Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
    1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time
    1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
    257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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