Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 30

Origin of Era of Augustus
Sisixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1125: Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1146: European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
1464: Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
1481: 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV
1563: Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
1645: Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1673: Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1682: William Penn left England to sail to New World
1721: Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
1751: Georg Friedrich H„ndel completes oratorio Jephtha
1757: Battle at Gross J„gerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1776: US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
1781: Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1781: French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under
1799: Bataafse fleet surrender to English
1831: Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
1843: 1st blacks participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
1850: Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1854: John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
1860: 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1862: 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
1862: Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
1862: Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1862: Battle of Richmond, KY
1880: J Coggia discovers asteroid #217 Eudora
1884: Jack Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
1885: 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1888: Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1891: J Palisa discovers asteroid #313 Chaldaea
1894: Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
1895: Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1900: Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1904: Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1905: Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1905: Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
1906: Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
1906: NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
1908: J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #675 Ludmilla
1910: Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
1912: St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1913: distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
1913: Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to
1914: 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914: Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1916: Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916: Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1918: Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1918: Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
1918: Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot & wounded after speech
1918: Max Wolf discovers asteroid #901 Brunsia
1919: Ernst Toller's Die Wandlung, premieres in Berlin
1922: Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
1925: 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1926: Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)
1927: K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1080 Orchis
1928: Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1930: Max Wolf & M Ferrero discovers asteroids #1169 Alwine & #2119 Schwall
1932: Hermann G”ring elected chairman (Reichstag)
1932: M Laugier discovers asteroid #1247 Memoria
1933: Air France forms
1933: Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1935: E Delporte discovers asteroid #1361 Leuschneria & #1363 Herberta
1935: E Hubble discovers asteroid #1373 Cincinnati
1937: G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1653 Yakhontovia
1937: Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1939: 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1939: General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1939: Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939: Poland mobilizes
1941: Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
1941: St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
1942: Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
1944: 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1944: Philip Yordan's Anna Lucasta, premieres in NYC
1944: Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945: 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
1945: Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
1945: Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
1945: Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1949: Roly Jenkins (Worcs v Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1949: WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1951: US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1953: Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
1954: Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1956: USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956: White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1957: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957: US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1958: US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1960: Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960: East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
1961: 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1961: J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
1961: Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
1961: Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1961: USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
1963: Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow begins
1965: Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1965: Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark
1967: US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1968: 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1968: John & Yoko's One on One benefit for children at MSG
1969: 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
1969: 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1969: Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1970: #2126 Gerasimovich, 2141 Simferopol & 1857 Parchomenko & #3813 Fortov
1970: T M Smirnova discovers asteroids #1977 Shura, #2011 Veteraniya,
1971: T M Smirnova find asteroid 4427 Burnashev, 4513 Louvre & 5540 Smirnova
1971: WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972: John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
1973: Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1974: Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1974: Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1974: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975: Felix Aguilar Obs discovers asteroids #2189 Zaragoza, #2893 & #4652
1975: KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1976: E F Helin discovers asteroid #2645 Daphne Plane
1976: Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1976: Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1978: Harvard Observatory discovers asteroid #4309 Marvin
1979: -Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep
1979: 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1979: 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1979: Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
1979: L Brozek discovers asteroid #2613 Plzen
1979: Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1980: Polish government recognizes Solidarity
1981: #2871 Schober, #3123 Dunham, #3832 Shapiro, #4021 Dancey,
1981: #4433 Goldstone, #5272 Dickinson & #7220
1981: A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3087 Beatrice Tinsley
1981: E Bowell discovers asteroid #2730 Barks, #2863 Ben Mayer,
1982: PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1983: 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1983: Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
1983: Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1983: WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
1984: 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
1984: Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1984: R S Dunbar & M Barucci discovers asteroid #3362 Khufu
1984: Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1984: Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
1986: Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
1986: L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #5807
1986: Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1987: Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987: Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
1987: Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno
1987: P Wild discovers asteroid #7081
1987: Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1987: Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10¬)
1987: Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1988: France performs nuclear test
1988: Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1988: Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
1989: Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
1990: K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #4641 & #6093 Makoto
1990: Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on
1990: same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1991: Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
1991: France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14« to 13«
1991: Mike Powell of US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4« (8.95m)
1991: R H McNaught discovers asteroid #8028
1991: Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
1992: 2 Trains Running closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 perfs
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
1993: 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1993: Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
1994: Gund Arena in Cleve opens
1995: Cable News Network joins internet
1995: Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game
1995: together tying AL record
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)
2002: BSE Sensex Up at 3181
2002: Delhi Police arrests 2 militants belonging to Laskher-e-Toeba.

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