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What happened in history on this day: August 30?
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- 257 - Saint Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1483 - Louis XI king of France (1461-83), dies at age 60.
- 1645 - Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty.
- 1721 - The Treaty of Nystadt ends the war between Sweden and Russia. Sweden loses Livonia, Estonia, Ingria, and East Karelia incluing Viborg. Russia returns Finland, and pays two million riksdaler. Russia agrees not to interfere in Swedish internal affairs or royal succession.
- 1748 - Birth of Jacques-Louis David France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat).
- 1797 - Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in London, England; author (Frankenstein).
- 1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.
- 1852 - Birth of Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff in Netherlands; physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1901).
- 1861 - John Frémont, commander of the Western Department, issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels.
- 1862 - Battle of Altamont - Confederates beat USA forces in Tennessee.
- 1862 - Second Battle of Manassas: US General John Pope defeated by CSA General Robert Lee; 13,824 casualties.
- 1871 - Birth of Ernest Lord Rutherford in England; physicist, discovered atomic nucleus.
- 1879 - John B Hood, Confederate States of America general (lost Atlanta, Georgia), dies at age 48.
- 1884 - Birth of Theodor Svedberg in Sweden; chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel Prize 1926).
- 1885 - 13,000 meteors seen in one hour near Andromeda.
- 1888 - Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day.
- 1893 - Birth of Huey "Kingfish" Long in Louisiana, USA; American politician, governor of Louisiana (1928-32), US Senator (Louisiana, Democrat, 1932-35).
- 1896 - Birth of Raymond Massey in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; actor (Dr Gillespie - Dr Kildare).
- 1901 - Birth of John Gunther in Chicago, Illinois, USA; author/host (John Gunther's High Road).
- 1901 - Birth of Roy Wilkins; civil rights director (NAACP).
- 1908 - Birth of Willie Bryant in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; singer ("Sugar Hill Times").
- 1908 - Birth of Fred MacMurray in Illinois, USA; actor (Steve Douglas - My Three Sons).
- 1909 - Birth of Joan Blondell in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides).
- 1916 - Boston Red Sox' Dutch Leonard no-hits Saint Louis Browns, 4-0.
- 1916 - Paul von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany.
- 1917 - Birth of Julie Bishop in Denver, Colorado, USA; actress (Northern Pursuit, Threat).
- 1918 - Birth of Ted Williams; baseball's last .400 hitter (Boston Red Sox, hit .406, .344 lifetime).
- 1919 - Birth of Kitty Wells in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; country singer (Grand Ole Opry).
- 1922 - Birth of Regina Resnik in New York City, New York, USA; mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth).
- 1923 - Birth of Elias Victor Seixas; US mixed double tennis player (Wimbledon 1953-56).
- 1927 - Birth of Bill Daily in Des Moines, Iowa, USA; actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart, The Bob Newhart Show).
- 1927 - Birth of Geoffrey Beene in Louisiana, USA; dress designer (8 Coty Awards).
- 1928 - Birth of Johnny Mann in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; music director (Johnny Mann's Stand Up and Cheer).
- 1930 - Birth of Warren Buffett; author (The Midas Touch).
- 1931 - Birth of John L Swigert Junior in Denver, Colorado, USA; American astronaut (Apollo 13) (dies 1982).
- 1931 - Birth of Jacques Braunstein; Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey (dies 2009).
- 1935 - Birth of John Phillips in South Carolina, USA; singer/songwriter (The Mamas and The Papas - "California Dreamin'", "San Francisco [Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair]").
- 1936 - The ship Queen Mary crosses the Atlantic from Ambrose east to Bishop Rock in record time, 3 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes.
- 1938 - Birth of Steve Delaney in Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA; newscaster (Monitor).
- 1939 - Birth of Elizabeth Ashley in Ocala, Florida, USA; actress (Coma, Evening Shade).
- 1939 - The Queen Mary ocean liner commences her final commercial voyage (for six years war duty) from Southampton, with 2332 passengers.
- 1939 - New York Yankees' Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph).
- 1939 - Adolf Hitler orders German armed forces to begin an attack on Poland.
- 1940 - Vienna Arbitration Award treaty between Romania and Hungary returns northern Transylvania to Hungary.
- 1941 - Birth of Ben Jones; actor (The Dukes of Hazzard), politician.
- 1941 - Saint Louis Cardinals' pitcher Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0.
- 1943 - Birth of Jean Claude Killy in France; skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968).
- 1943 - Birth of R Crumb; cartoonist (Father Time).
- 1944 - In Italy, Canadian forces crosses the Foglia River, and pierce the Gothic Line of German defences.
- 1944 - Former Paris Military Governor Colonel-General Karl Heinrich von Stülpnagel is hanged.
- 1944 - Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania.
- 1944 - Russian forces capture Ploesti, Romania.
- 1945 - Hong Kong liberated from Japan.
- 1947 - Birth of Peggy Lipton in Lawrence, New York, USA; actress (Julie - Mod Squad, Twin Peaks).
- 1948 - Birth of Lewis Black; comedian (The Daily Show, Root of All Evil).
- 1951 - Birth of Timothy Bottoms; actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden, That's My Bush, Land of the Lost).
- 1952 - Arky Vaughn, infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates and Brooklyn Dodgers), drowns.
- 1953 - Birth of Robert Parish; NBA center (Boston Celtics).
- 1954 - Birth of David Paymer; actor (Line of Fire, Larry Sanders Show).
- 1955 - Birth of Martin Jackson; rocker (Swing Out Sister - "Swing Out").
- 1957 - ABC airs the last Kukla, Fran, and Ollie TV show.
- 1961 - Baltimore Orioles' player Jack Fisher walks 12 Los Angeles Angels' players in a 9-inning game.
- 1963 - Birth of Michael Chiklis; actor (The Commish, The Shield).
- 1963 - Axel Stordahl, orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at age 50.
- 1963 - Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins.
- 1964 - Birth of Stephen Baker; NFL receiver (New York Giants).
- 1964 - Wesley Lau, actor (Lieutenant Anderson - Perry Mason), dies at age 43.
- 1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball.
- 1965 - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
- 1966 - Birth of Michael Michele; actress (ER, Kevin Hill, Homicide: Life On The Street).
- 1967 - US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as US Supreme Court justice.
- 1968 - First record under Apple label (The Beatle's "Hey Jude").
- 1968 - Death of William Talman at age 53 of cancer; actor (Hamilton Berger - Perry Mason).
- 1969 - 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival.
- 1969 - 25,000 attend second Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino, Washington.
- 1969 - Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- 1970 - Death of Del Moore at age 54 of a heart attack; actor/announcer (Life with Elizabeth TV show, Cal - Bachelor Father).
- 1971 - The British florin is re-denominated as a 10-pence coin, and the shilling as a 5-pence coin.
- 1971 - Birth of Lars Frederiksen; guitarist (Rancid).
- 1972 - Birth of Cameron Diaz; actress (Shrek the Halls).
- 1973 - Birth of Lisa Ling; TV personality (The View, Hollywood Squares).
- 1974 - CBS airs the last Your Hit Parade TV show.
- 1974 - Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugoslavia rail yard killing 153.
- 1974 - Birth of Aaron Barrett; singer, guitarist (Reel Big Fish).
- 1975 - Birth of Rich Cronin; singer (LF0).
- 1976 - Death of Paul Felix Lazarsfeld in Vienna, Austria; taught at the University of Vienna, Princeton University, Columbia University.
- 1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
- 1979 - First recorded occurrence - comet Howard-Koomur-Michels hits sun (energy equals 1 million hydrogen bombs).
- 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia.
- 1981 - Birth of Brian J. Robinson; Canadian musician (A Wilhelm Scream).
- 1981 - Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, and Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, are assassinated by a bomb.
- 1983 - STS-8: Space Shuttle Challenger launched into space.
- 1984 - Jim Rice of the Boston Red Sox makes his 33rd double play of the season establishing a new major league mark.
- 1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) - Discovery 1 - launched (6 days).
- 1986 - In Romania, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. Two people killed, 558 injured, and about 55,000 homes damaged, leaving more than 12,500 people homeless in the Kishinev-Kagul area, USSR.
- 1986 - Birth of Ryan Ross; guitarist (Panic At The Disco).
- 1987 - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100m in world record 9.83 seconds.
- 1987 - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6 feet 10.25 inches).
- 1987 - Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57).
- 1989 - Death of Joe De Santis at age 80 of obstructive lung disease; actor (Pepper Young's Family radio show, Mr. District Attorney, March of Time, Gangbusters, Kate Smith, Playhouse 90 TV show, Studio One).
- 1990 - Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Junior become first father and son to play on the same baseball team (Seattle Mariners).
- 1991 - Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points.
- 1991 - USA beats European Union by narrowest Ryder Cup margin: 14.5 to 13.5.
- 1991 - Mike Powell of the US sets long jump record at 29 feet 4.5 inches.
- 1991 - The last episode of the TV series The Challengers airs.
- 1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
- 1992 - Michael Schumacher wins his first Grand Prix car race in Belgium at Spa-Francorchamps in a Benetton-Ford race car.
- 1993 - CBS-TV debuts Late Show with David Letterman. First musical guest to appear on the new show is Billy Joel.
- 1995 - Death of Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (born 1942).
- 1995 - The NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia, continuing into October. At the same time ARBiH forces begin an offensive against the Serb Army around Sarajevo, central Bosnia and Bosnian Krajina.
- 2002 - Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announces the players union and owners have reached a settlement on a new four-year agreement, avoiding a strike.
- 2003 - Death of Charles Bronson AKA Charles Buchinsky of Alzheimer's and pneumonia at age 81; actor (Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Empire, Family of Cops I, II, & III).
- 2004 - (to September 2) U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are re-nominated at the Republican National Convention in New York City.
- 2006 - Death of Glenn Ford at age 90; actor (Cade's County, The Family Holvak).
- 2006 - Death of Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911).
- 2007 - United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident in which a B-52 flies from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base, Lousiana carrying six nuclear warheads.
- 2009 - British TV talk show host Simon Dee (real bame Nicholas Henty-Dodd), one of the biggest stars on British TV in the 1960s (Dee Time), dies at the age of 74 of bone cancer, in Winchester, Hampshire, England.
- 2009 - In Spa, Belgium, round 12 of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship is won by Kimi Räikkönen.
- 2009 - In Indianapolis, USA, round 12 of the FIM MotoGP Championship is won by Jorge Lorenzo.
- 2009 - Japan's Democratic Party of Japan win a landslide general election over the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, 308 seats to 119, throwing out the party after almost 50 years of rule. New prime minister will be Yukio Hatoyama.
- 2017 - Death of Károly Makk, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (born 1925).
- 2020 - The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 25 million worldwide.
- 2021 - The UN Environment Programme announces that leaded petrol in road vehicles has been phased out globally, a hundred years after its introduction.
- 2021 - The United States withdraws its last remaining troops from Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, ending 20 years of operations in Afghanistan.
- 2022 - Death of Mikhail Gorbachev at age 91; last secretary general of the USSR (1985-1990), last president of the USSR (1990-1991).
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