Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
• On this day in 257, St Sixtus II began his reign as Catholic Pope. In 1125 on this day, Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg was elected King of Germany. On this day in 1146, European leaders outlawed the crossbow, intending to end war for all time.
• This day in 1363 marked the beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; when the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang—were 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. Pietro Barbo was elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II) on this day in 1464, In 1481 on this day, two Latvian monarchs were executed for a conspiracy to Polish King Kazimierz IV. On this day in 1563, the Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, was expelled. Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master on this day in 1574.
• On this day in 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590). In 1645 on this day, Dutch & Indians signed peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY)). Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans formed anti-French covenant on this day in 1673. William Penn left England to sail to the New World on this day in 1682. The Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad occurred on this day in 1721, ending the North Sea War.
Bust of German-British composer George Friedrich Handel
• Georg Friedrich Handel completed oratorio "Jephtha" on this day in 1751.
• In 1757 on this day, the Battle at Gross Jagerndorf was fought, with the Russian army beating Prussia [OS=Aug 19]. On this day in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, the Colonial army evacuated Long Island and fell back to Manhattan, NYC. On this day in 1781, the French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeated the British under Admiral Graves at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes in the Revolutionary War..
• On this day in 1791, the HMS Pandora sank after running aground on a reef the previous day. In 1799 on this day, the Bataafse fleet surrendered to the English. On this day in 1800, Gabriel Prosser led a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia.
• In 1813 on this day, the Battle of Kulm was fought, with French forces defeated by the Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance. Charles Darwin refused to travel with the HMS Beagle on this day in 1831.
• On this day in 1835, the city of Melbourne, Australia was founded.
The city of Houston, Texas, was founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen on this day in 1836. This day in 1843 marked the first black participation in national political convention (Liberty Party) in the United States. On this day in 1850, Honolulu, Hawaii became a city. John Fremont issued proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels on this day in 1854. On this day in 1860, the first British tram opened (Birkenhead). This day in 1862 marked the last day of second Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, during the American Civil War, with Confederates beating Union forces. The Battle of 2nd Manassas was fought on this day in 1862, when Pope was defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY.. In 1862 on this day in the Battle of Altamont, Confederates defeated Union forces in Tennessee. On this day in 1873, Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discovered the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea. In 1885 on this day, 13,000 meteors were seen in one hour near Andromeda.
• Lord Walsingham killed 1070 grouse in a single day on this day in 1888. Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger fell on this day in 1894. On this day in 1895, Belgium began compulsory Roman Catholic education. In 1896 on this day, 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. The town of Ambiky was captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar on this day in 1897.
The Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, South Africa.
• In 1900 on this day, the last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa were 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 above Paris, 2 killed
1914 - Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1916 - Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
1916 - Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1918 - Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
Marxist Revolutionary Vladimir LeninMarxist Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin 1918 - Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
1918 - Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot & wounded after speech
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 Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
1928 - Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1932 - Hermann Goering elected chairman (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
Nazi Politician Hermann GoeringNazi Politician Hermann Goering 1939 - NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
• Poland mobilized for war on this day in 1939.
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 Japan
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
1956 - USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 - White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, 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 - Hot Line communications link between Moscow and Washington, DC installed
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1965 - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
First Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood MarshallFirst Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall 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 Intl 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 full speed into Zagreb, Yugo 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
Artist & Musician Yoko OnoArtist & Musician Yoko Ono 1976 - Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1979 - -Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep
1979 - 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil 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
American President Jimmy Carter
• 1979 - Pres 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
• 1980 - Polish government recognizes Solidarity
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)
Palestinian Leader Yasser ArafatPalestinian Leader Yasser Arafat 1984 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1984 - Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1984 - Sotherby'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 - Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
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.
• 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
1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow. 1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York. 1682 - William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America. 1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army. 1806 - New York City's second daily newspaper, the "Daily Advertiser," was published for the last time. 1809 - Charles Doolittle Walcott first discovered fossils near Burgess Pass. He named the site Burgess Shale after nearby Mt. Burgess. 1862 - The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA. 1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers. 1928 - The Independence of India League was established in India. 1941 - During World War II, the Nazis severed the last railroad link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union. 1945 - General Douglas MacArthur set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan. 1951 - The Philippines and the United States signed a defense pact. 1956 - In Louisianna, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opened. 1960 - A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany. 1963 - The "Hotline" between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation. 1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court. 1982 - P.L.O. leader Yasir Arafat left Beirut for Greece. 1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space. 1984 - The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the first time. On the voyage three communications satellites were deployed. 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame. 1991 - The Soviet republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence. 1993 - On CBS-TV "The Late Show with David Letterman" premiered. 1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement. 1994 - The largest U.S. defense contractor was created when the Lockheed and Martin Marietta corporations agreed to a merger. 1996 - An expedition to raise part of the Titanic failed when the nylon lines being used to raise part of the hull snapped. 1999 - The residents of East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. The U.N. announced the result on September 4.
30 B.C. Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, committed suicide. 1862 The Second Battle of Bull Run took place during the Civil War. 1905 Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut, playing for the Detroit Tigers. 1941 The two-year siege of Leningrad during World War II began. 1963 A hot line between the Kremlin and the White House went into operation to reduce the chances of an accidental war. 1967 Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first African American Supreme Court justice. 1999 East Timor residents voted to secede from Indonesia.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/aug30.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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