Today in History – August 30th

Published August 30, 2012 |

526, King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10yo son Athalaric.
1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791, HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
1800, Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813, Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813, Creek War, Fort Mims massacre: Creek “Red Sticks” kill over 500 settlers in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835, Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836, The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862, Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
1873, Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1879, John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831) died.
1893, Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935) was born.
1897, The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1908, Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991) was born.
1909, Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914, WWI: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
1918, Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002) was born.
1935, John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001) was born.
1937, Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of McLaren racing team (d. 1970) was born.
1938, Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877) died.
1939, John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004) was born.
1940, The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1942, WWII: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945, Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945, The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after WWII, comes into being.
1945, The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1956, The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962, Japan conducts test of NAMC YS-11, its 1st aircraft since WWII and its only successful commercial aircraft.
1963, The Hotline between the leaders of the USA. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967, Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the 1st African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the US.
1974, A BelgradeaE”Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1984, STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1995, NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1999, East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
2003, Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921) died.
2004, Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949) died.

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