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- 1363 Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhangare 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.
- 1574 Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
- 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
- 1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
- 1682 William Penn sails from England to America, where he would establish the Pennsylvania Colony.
- 1791 The HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day.
- 1799 Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1800 Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
- 1813 Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- 1813 Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
- 1820 James Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20,000 sympathetic to Wilson, witnessed the event. James Wilson, on his way to the scaffold, remarked to the hangman Thomas Moore - "Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas?"
- 1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
- 1843 The first black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
- 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
- 1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
- 1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
- 1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
- 1862 Confederate troops defeat Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.
- 1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
- 1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
- 1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
- 1896 Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
- 1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
- 1905 Baseball slugger Ty Cobb makes his major league debut.
- 1905 Ty Cobb's first major league at bat (Detroit Tigers)
- 1909 Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- 1913 US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot)
- 1914 Battle of Tannenberg, one of history's great military disasters, ends after the Russian Second Army under Samsonov is enveloped and crushed by the Germans, losing 30,000 men; Samsonov committed suicide.
- 1914 Battle of Tannenberg.
- 1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
- 1918 Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
- 1922 Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
- 1922 Tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
- 1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
- 1941 Nazi forces take the city of Mga as the siege of Leningrad begins during WWII.
- 1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
- 1942 Battle of Alam Halfa – 9th Australian Division again in action at El Alamein
- 1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
- 1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
- 1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
- 1945 Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
- 1945 The Japanese POW camp Shamshuipo in Hong Kong is liberated containin 1500 POW's including 400 Canadians
- 1956 Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
- 1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
- 1961 The first Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
- 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.
- 1962 Visitor posting - Donna Cassandra Fischer was born - USA
- 1963 Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow went begins
- 1963 Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
- 1963 The Hot Line phone linking the White House with the Kremlin was installed.
- 1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
- 1965 Casey Stengel retires from baseball after a career spanning 40 years.
- 1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
- 1967 The US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.
- 1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as first black justice
- 1968 Death of CEW Bean, founder of the Australian War Memorial and editor of the Official history of Australia in the war of 1914–18
- 1968 John and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250,000 to help mentally retarded children.
- 1968 The first record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
- 1969 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
- 1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
- 1969 Number one hit on UK music charts - Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525
- 1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
- 1972 David Barrett 1930- leads the NDP to victory over WAC Bennett's Social Credit Party, taking 39 seats in the British Columbia provincial election; upsetting 20 years of Socred rule
- 1973 Kenya bans the hunting of elephants and the trade in ivory.
- 1974 A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
- 1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
- 1974 Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
- 1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
- 1976 USS Oriskany, the last of the Essex-class attack carriers, was decommissioned at San Francisco and placed in the mothball fleet. Oriskany saw extensive action in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
- 1979 A U.S. Navy CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter of VR-24 lifted a 12-foot bronze statue of the Madonna and Child to the top of Mt. Tiberius on Capri, Italy, to replace one which had been destroyed by lightning. The statue was too large to be transported overland.
- 1979 The first prototype of the Navy's SH-60B Seahawk helicopter was unveiled at the Sikorsky Aircraft Division at Stratford, Connecticut
- 1979 The first recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
- 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
- 1983 Guion S. Bluford Jr, the first African-American astronaut, blasts off as a crewmember aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
- 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
- 1984 STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
- 1986 In Romania a 6.9 earthquake killed 2 people, 558 injured, and about 55,000 homes damaged, leaving more than 12,500 people homeless in the Kishinev-Kagul area
- 1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
- 1986 US News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff is arrested by Soviet authorities for suspicion of spying.
- 1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
- 1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6'10¬")
- 1987 Visitor posting - Jesse McIntyre was born in Pittsburgh, PA - USA
- 1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
- 1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
- 1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
- 1990 Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
- 1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
- 1991 France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14« to 13«
- 1996 Visitor posting - KALEB PERRY BORN. Pet - LILLY IS A DOG - USA
- 1997 The world learns of the Paris car crash that killed England's Princess Diana, her husband and Harrod's owner Dodi Fayed, and their driver.
- 1997 Visitor posting - august 30 1997 little Hope was born.
- 1999 East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Pauline and George got married - United Kingdom
- 2009 A presidential election takes place in Gabon.
- 2009 A suspected suicide bomber kills 14 police cadets in an attack on a training centre in Mingora, Pakistan.
- 2009 Al Qaeda claims reponsibility for the attempted assassination on Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef.
- 2009 At least five people are killed and 275 injured in a train crash near Yaounde, Cameroon.
- 2009 Brazil's former Environment minister Marina Silva joins the Green Party which wants to field her as a black female candidate for the 2010 Brazilian presidential race when President Lula's two terms comes to an end.
- 2009 Burma says 26 government troops and 8 rebels were killed during violence in the Kokang region of Shan State.
- 2009 Ehud Olmert is indicted on three counts of corruption, becoming the first ex-Prime Minister of Israel to face criminal charges.
- 2009 Israeli jets bomb a building in the Gaza Strip which the military says hides a tunnel that Palestinian militants could use to infiltrate Israel.
- 2009 Japanese voters go to the polls.
- 2009 The Dalai Lama begins a visit to Taiwan, amid criticism from China.
- 2009 The Democratic Party of Japan win 308 seats in the 480 seat House of Representatives, ending nearly 50 years of control by the Liberal Democratic Party. Opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama is expected to be confirmed as the next Prime Minister.
- 2009 The Iranian Parliament begins debating President Mahmoud Ahmadinejads choice of Cabinet.
- 2009 The remains of 92 victims of a military massacre in Putis, Peru, are laid to rest 25 years later.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Kimberly Ruppard was born on this day!!! YEAH!!!! - USA
- 2011 Important Islamic date - Eid ul-Fitr: August 30, 2011
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