Notable Historical Events on August 30th
August 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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 war for all time |
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 was one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. |
1464 |
Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II) |
1481 |
2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Casimir IV |
1563 |
Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, expelled |
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 (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 |
George Frederic Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha" |
1757 |
Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19] |
1776 |
US army evacuates Long Island and falls back to Manhattan, NYC |
1781 |
French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in American Revolutionary War |
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 |
1791 |
Thomas Jefferson responds to Benjamin Banneker's letter on the issue of slavery |
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. |
1831 |
Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle |
1835 |
Melbourne, Australia is founded. |
1836 |
The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen |
1843 |
1st blacks participation in natl 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 |
Last day of 2nd Battle of Bull Run Va - Confederates beat Union forces |
1862 |
Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY |
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 1st fight with boxing gloves |
1885 |
13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda |
1888 |
Lord Walsingham kills 1,070 grouse in a single day |
1890 |
President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products |
1893 |
13rd US Men's Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (6-4 3-6 6-4 6-4) |
1894 |
Frederick Lugard's expedition to Niger |
1895 |
Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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 top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled |
1914 |
1st German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed |
1914 |
Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army ca. 170,000 killed or injured |
1916 |
Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0 |
1918 |
Czechoslovakia forms independent republic |
1918 |
Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, attempting to assassinate him |
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 |
41st US Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64) |
1928 |
Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India |
1932 |
Hermann Goering elected chairman of the Reichstag |
1933 |
Air France forms |
1933 |
Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE) |
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 |
NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph) |
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 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 mutual defense pact |
1954 |
Hurricane Carol kills 68 on the US East Coast |
1956 |
USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) |
1956 |
White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas |
1956 |
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens. |
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 |
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 Pentagon (Washington) and the Klemlin (Moscow) installed |
1964 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open |
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 |
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 Madison Square Garden |
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 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden |
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 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 Today Show |
1976 |
Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution |
1979 |
-Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep |
1979 |
1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun (energy=1 million hydrogen bombs) |
1979 |
Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match |
1979 |
Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses |
1979 |
US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga |
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 |
1981 |
Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic |
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 |
WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila |
1983 |
Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space |
1984 |
12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days) |
1984 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
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 memorabilla |
1986 |
Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54) |
1986 |
Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) |
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 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 |
Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10½") |
1987 |
Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (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 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 decathalon 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 perfs |
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 |
1992 |
Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge |
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 |
1994 |
Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618 |
1995 |
Cable News Network joins internet |
1995 |
Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker & Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game 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) |
1998 |
State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
1999 |
East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum. |
2006 |
Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game |
2012 |
Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone |
2012 |
A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing |
2012 |
Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open |
2013 |
15 people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China |
2016 |
Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway |
2016 |
North Korea Denounces UN Condemnation, Warns US of Action |
2016 |
EpiPen maker to sell cheaper generic version |
2017 |
US Coast Guard has saved 4322 lives in Houston flooding: official |
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