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