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Events on the 30th of August in history

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30 Aug 2031 -BC- Origin of Era of Augustus
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30 Aug 0257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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30 Aug 0526 King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
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30 Aug 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected King of Germany
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30 Aug 1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
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30 Aug 1282 Peter III of Aragon, originally traveling with his fleet on a military expedition against the Hafsid Kingdom, ends up in the Sicilian town of Trapani, after he was asked by the inhabitants of Palermo to help in the fight against Charles of Anjou.
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30 Aug 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 is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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30 Aug 1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
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30 Aug 1464 Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
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30 Aug 1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish King Kazimierz IV
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30 Aug 1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
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30 Aug 1574 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
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30 Aug 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
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30 Aug 1645 Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
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30 Aug 1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
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30 Aug 1673 Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant
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30 Aug 1682 William Penn left England to sail to New World
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30 Aug 1721 Russian / Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
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30 Aug 1776 US army evacuates Long Island / falls back to Manhattan, New York
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30 Aug 1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
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30 Aug 1791 HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
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30 Aug 1799 Bataafse fleet surrender to English
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30 Aug 1799 The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
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30 Aug 1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
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30 Aug 1813 First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
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30 Aug 1813 Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
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30 Aug 1831 Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
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30 Aug 1835 Melbourne is founded.
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30 Aug 1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
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30 Aug 1843 1st blacks participation in National political convention (Liberty Party)
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30 Aug 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
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30 Aug 1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
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30 Aug 1860 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
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30 Aug 1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
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30 Aug 1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, Kentucky
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30 Aug 1862 Battle of Richmond, Kentucky
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30 Aug 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
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30 Aug 1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
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30 Aug 1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
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30 Aug 1884 Jack Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
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30 Aug 1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
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30 Aug 1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
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30 Aug 1893 13rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
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30 Aug 1894 Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
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30 Aug 1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
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30 Aug 1896 Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
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30 Aug 1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
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30 Aug 1900 Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
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30 Aug 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
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30 Aug 1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
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30 Aug 1905 Pogoro / Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
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30 Aug 1905 Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
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30 Aug 1905 Ty Cobb's 1st major league at bat (Detroit Tigers)
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30 Aug 1906 New York Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
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30 Aug 1906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
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30 Aug 1909 Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
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30 Aug 1910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleveland 5-0 in 11
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30 Aug 1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
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30 Aug 1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
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30 Aug 1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
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30 Aug 1914 Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
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30 Aug 1914 World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
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30 Aug 1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
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30 Aug 1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
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30 Aug 1917 Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
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30 Aug 1918 Czechoslovakia forms independence Republic
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30 Aug 1918 Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
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30 Aug 1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot andwounded after speech
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30 Aug 1918 Fanni Kaplan 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.
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30 Aug 1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
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30 Aug 1922 Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
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30 Aug 1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
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30 Aug 1927 41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
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30 Aug 1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
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30 Aug 1933 Air France forms
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30 Aug 1933 Portuguese Dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
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30 Aug 1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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30 Aug 1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
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30 Aug 1939 General Reijnders appointed Supreme Commander of Dutch army
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30 Aug 1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Supreme Commander of Japanese fleet
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30 Aug 1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 km/h)
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30 Aug 1939 Poland mobilizes
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30 Aug 1940 The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
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30 Aug 1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
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30 Aug 1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
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30 Aug 1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
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30 Aug 1942 World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
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30 Aug 1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
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30 Aug 1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
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30 Aug 1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
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30 Aug 1945 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
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30 Aug 1945 Gen MacArthur lands in Japan
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30 Aug 1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
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30 Aug 1945 The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
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30 Aug 1945 The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
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30 Aug 1945 The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
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30 Aug 1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
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30 Aug 1949 Roly Jenkins (Worcs vs. Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
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30 Aug 1949 WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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30 Aug 1951 US and Philippines sign mutual defense pact
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30 Aug 1953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City
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30 Aug 1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
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30 Aug 1956 The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
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30 Aug 1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
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30 Aug 1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
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30 Aug 1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
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30 Aug 1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
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30 Aug 1961 J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a US District Court
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30 Aug 1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
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30 Aug 1961 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
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30 Aug 1961 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
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30 Aug 1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
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30 Aug 1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
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30 Aug 1963 Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins
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30 Aug 1963 The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
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30 Aug 1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
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30 Aug 1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
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30 Aug 1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
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30 Aug 1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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30 Aug 1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
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30 Aug 1968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
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30 Aug 1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
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30 Aug 1969 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival
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30 Aug 1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Washington
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30 Aug 1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
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30 Aug 1971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
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30 Aug 1972 John Lennon andYoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
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30 Aug 1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings
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30 Aug 1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
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30 Aug 1974 A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
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30 Aug 1974 A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
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30 Aug 1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
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30 Aug 1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
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30 Aug 1976 Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution
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30 Aug 1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
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30 Aug 1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs / 100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
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30 Aug 1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses
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30 Aug 1979 President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia
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30 Aug 1979 Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
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30 Aug 1979 1st recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
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30 Aug 1981 Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
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30 Aug 1981 President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
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30 Aug 1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
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30 Aug 1983 Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
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30 Aug 1983 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American Astronaut in space
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30 Aug 1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Philadelphia
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30 Aug 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
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30 Aug 1984 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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30 Aug 1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
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30 Aug 1984 STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
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30 Aug 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
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30 Aug 1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
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30 Aug 1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
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30 Aug 1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
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30 Aug 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
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30 Aug 1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
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30 Aug 1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
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30 Aug 1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
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30 Aug 1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6'10
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30 Aug 1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
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30 Aug 1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
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30 Aug 1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
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30 Aug 1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
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30 Aug 1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
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30 Aug 1990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on the same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in the 1st inning
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30 Aug 1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka Poet Selvi
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30 Aug 1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
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30 Aug 1991 France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14
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30 Aug 1991 Mike Powell of the US, sets then long jump record at 29' 4
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30 Aug 1992 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 performances
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30 Aug 1992 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
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30 Aug 1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
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30 Aug 1992 David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
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30 Aug 1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
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30 Aug 1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
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30 Aug 1993 Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
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30 Aug 1994 Gund Arena in Cleveland opens
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30 Aug 1994 Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
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30 Aug 1995 Cable News Network joins internet
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30 Aug 1995 Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell play in 1,914th game together tying AL record
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30 Aug 1995 Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
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30 Aug 1997 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat the New York Liberty
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30 Aug 1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 mph serves in a match (US Open)
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30 Aug 1998 State Farm Rail Golf Classic
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30 Aug 1998 Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
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30 Aug 1999 East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
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30 Aug 2003 While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
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