## 30 August-Today's Historical Events of the world

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257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany

1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end the war for all time

1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; 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 Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II as Pope Paul II

1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Casimir IV

1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, expelled

1574 Ram Das becomes the 4th Sikh Guru

1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))

1673 Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form the anti-French covenant

1721 Russian and Swedish sign Treaty of Nystad, ending North Sea War

1757 Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]

1776 Continental Army evacuates Long Island and falls back to Manhattan, NYC

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

1799 Batavian fleet surrenders to British

1800 Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia

1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.

1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

1843 1st time African-Americans participate in a national political convention (Liberty Party)

1850 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

1860 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)

1861 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels

1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee

1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

1884 Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight title in the 1st fight with boxing gloves

1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda

1887 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats Henry Slocum 6-1, 6-3, 6-2

1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1,070 grouse in a single day

1892 12th U.S. Men's National Championship: Oliver Campbell beats Fred Hovey (7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5)

1894 British explorer Frederick Lugard's expedition to Niger

1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education

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

1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.

1900 Last 2,000 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

1906 Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game

1906 NY Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs

1909 Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

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 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in the top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forfeits the game to Giants, later overruled

1914 1st German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed

1914 Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) ends in the destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army, ca. 170,000 killed or injured, German victory on Eastern Front

1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0

1918 Czechoslovakia forms the independent republic

1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium

1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey v Middlesex)

1933 Air France forms from five French airlines

1933 Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)

1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)

1939 General Reijnders appointed the supreme commander of the Dutch army

1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet

1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)

1939 Poland mobilizes

1941 Siege of Leningrad by German troops begins during WWII

1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0

1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg

1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 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 Hong Kong liberated from Japanese

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 a mutual defense pact

1954 Hurricane Carol kills 68 on the US East Coast

1956 USSR performs a nuclear test (atmospheric tests)

1956 White mob prevents the enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas

1956 Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.

1957 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights

1958 US performs a 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 James Benton Parsons is confirmed as 1st African American judge of a US District Court

1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco

1961 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing

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.

1963 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines, and most recently secure email.

1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open

1964 Electric designer Norman Manley records back-to-back holes-in-one on the 7th & 8th holes at Del Valle in Saugus, California; Guinness BWR' best

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

1968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)

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

1971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting

1972 Japanese breaststroker Nobutaka Taguchi beats American pair Tom Bruce & John Hencken to win the 100m gold medal in world record 1:04.94 at the Munich Olympic Games

1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould with a world record 4:19.04 for the 400m, wins her second of 3 gold medals at the Munich Olympics

1972 American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp & Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; world record 3:55.19

1972 Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet teammate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-around competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games

1972 Slalom canoeing is introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all 4 events

1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings

1974 Express train runs at full speed into Zagreb, Yugoslavia, rail yard killing 153

1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg

1974 US performs the nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)

1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of NBC's "Today Show"

1976 Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution

1979 -Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Dominicana & Dominican Republic

1979 1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun, releases energy equal to one million hydrogen bombs

1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)

1983 Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen the USA

1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Philadelphia

1983 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space

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

1984 Sotheby's in London begins 2-day auction of rock memorabilia

1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)

1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)

1986 43rd Venice Film Festival: "Le rayon vert" directed by Eric Rohmer wins Golden Lion

1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair

1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship

1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100m in world record 9.83 sec

1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10½")

1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backward (3:57:57)

1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls

1988 France performs nuclear test

1988 Kent Tekulve is a 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games

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.

1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathlon record with 8,812 points

1991 Mike Powell of US sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)

1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi

1992 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 performances

1992 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances

1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard

1992 David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun

1993 Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, second largest mosque in the world

1994 Gund Arena in Cleve opens

1994 Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618

1995 Cable News Network joins the internet

1995 Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 games together tying AL record

1995 52nd Venice Film Festival: "Cyclo" directed by Anh Hung Tran wins Golden Lion

1997 1st WNBA Championship: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty

1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)

1999 East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.

2000 57th Venice Film Festival: "Dayereh" directed by Jafar Panahi wins Golden Lion

2006 63rd Venice Film Festival: "Still Life" directed by Jia Zhangke wins Golden Lion

2012 Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone

2012 A blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing

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)

2015 English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked for MI6 for more than 20 years

2017 Brazilian court blocks President Michel Temer from abolishing Renca, which would open parts of the Amazon to mining

2017 Authorities say floods across Bangladesh, Nepal, and India have killed more 1200 people and damaged 697,000 houses

2017 Hurricane Irma forms near Cape Verde Islands, will go on to become category 5 hurricane and kill at least 102