On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on August 30:
1334 Pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon
1748 Jacques-Louis David France, Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat)
1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley London England, author (Frankenstein)
1871 Ernest Lord Rutherford England, physicist; discovered atomic nucleus
1884 Theodor Svedberg Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel '26)
1893 Huey P Long Winn Parish La, (gov/sen-D-La)
1896 Raymond Massey Toronto Canada, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare)
1901 John Gunther Chicago Ill, author/host (John Gunther's High Road)
1901 John C Stennis (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88)
1901 Roy Wilkins civil rights director (NAACP)
1907 Fred MacMurray Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons)
1909 Joan Blondell NYC, actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides)
1918 Ted Williams Baseball's last .400 hitter (Boston Red Sox, hit .406, .344 lifetime)
1919 Kitty Wells Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1927 Geoffrey Beene Louisiana, dress designer (8 Coty Awards)
1928 Bill Daily Des Moines Iowa, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart)
1930 Warren Buffett author (The Midas Touch)
1931 John L Swigert Jr Denver Colorado, astronaut (Apollo 13
1935 John Phillips singer (Mama & Papas-California Dreaming)
1943 Jean Claude Killy France, skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968)
1943 R Crumb cartoonist (Father Time)
1947 Peggy Lipton Lawrence NY, actress (Julie-Mod Squad, Twin Peaks)
1950 John Landis actor (American Werewolf in London)
Deaths which occurred on August 30:
0030 BC Cleopatra 7th & most famous queen of Egypt, commits suicide (really made an asp of herself)
0526 Theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoths, conqueror of Roman Empire/King of Italy,
1483 Louis XI king of France (1461-83), dies at 60
1809 Ignacy Potocki Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies
1879 John B Hood confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
1914 Aleksandr Samsonov Russian general, commits suicide
1930 William H Taft 27th US President, dies
1961 Charles Coburn Acad award winning actor, dies at 84
1963 Axel Stordahl orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50
1968 William Talman actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53
1970 Del Moore actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53
1981 Mohammad Ali Rajai president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb
1993 Richard Jordan, US actor (Hunt for Red October, Posse), dies at 55, shortly after finishing movie, Gettysburg (Gen. Armistead)
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1966 HOFF SAMMIE D. KENNEDY TX.
[EJECTED RADIO CONTACT - REMAINS RETURNED EARLY 89]
1966 ROBINSON KENNETH D. INDIANAPOLIS IN.
[NO SUBS INTEL INFO / REMAINS RETURNED 12/88]
1967 ALLARD MICHAEL JOHN SCHOFIELD WI.
1970 PERALTA BENJAMIN R.
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On this day...
0031 BC Origin of Era of Augustus
0257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time(Well THAT worked real good)
1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty
1721 The Peace of Nystad ends the Second Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia considerably more power in the Baltic region.
1776 US army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, NYC
1780 General Benedict Arnold betrayed the US when he promised secretly to surrender the fort at West Point to the British army. Arnold - whose name has become synonymous with traitor - fled to England after the botched consipracy. His co-conspirator, British spy Major John Andre, was hanged by Gen. Washington
1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1843 1st black participation in natl political convention (Liberty Party)
1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1861 Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. President Lincoln overrules the general.
1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
1905 Ty Cobb's 1st major league at bat (Detroit Tigers)
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
1918 Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1932 - World War I fighter ace, Hermann Goring elected president of Reichstag
1933 Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1941 German forces began the 900-day siege of Leningrad. When the siege ends, the Russian city lay in ruins and hundreds of thousands of people had died. And Leningrad still belonged to the Russians.
1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1957 In an effort to stall the Civil Rights Act of 1957 from passing, Senator Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) filibusters for over 24 hours. The bill passed, but Thurmond's filibuster becomes the longest in Senate history.
1961 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1963 Hot Line communications link between Wash DC & Moscow went begins
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)
1969 120,000 attend Texas Intl Pop Festival
1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1979 1st recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1979 Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1991 Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points
1995 Cable News Network joins internet
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Afghanistan : Children's Day
England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales : Bank Holiday (Monday)
Gibraltar : Bank Holiday
Turkey : Victory Day (1922)
Hong Kong : Liberation Day (1945) (Monday)
National Neighborhood Day
National Toasted Marshmallow Day
National Sandwich Month
Religious Observances
RC : Comm of St Fiacre, Irish hermit, patron of gardeners
Old RC : Feast of St Rose of Lima, patron of Latin America
RC Felix & Adauctus, Roman martyrs
RC Pammachius, Roman senator
Religious History
1637 Colonial religious teacher Anne Hutchinson, 46, was charged with "traducing (i.e., degrading) the ministry" and was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Moving the following year to Rhode Island, then to New York, Anne and her family were killed by Indians in 1643.
1770 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The exercised and experienced Christian, by the knowledge he has gained of his own heart and the many difficulties he has had to struggle with, acquires a skill and compassion in dealing with others.
1820 Birth of George F. Root, American sacred music editor and composer. Root helped edit 75 musical collections, as well as composing several hundred original sacred melodies. One of these, JEWELS, is the tune to which is commonly sung the hymn, "When He Cometh."
1856 Wilberforce University was established in Xenia, Ohio under auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1863, the university was transferred to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
1894 Independent Christian evangelist and educator Bob Jones, Sr. was converted at age 11 to a vital Christian faith. Licensed to preach by the Methodists at 15, Jones maintained a lifelong fundamentalist view of the Bible. In 1926, at age 32, he founded Bob Jones University.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"You learn something every day if you pay attention."
Translating Southern United States Slang to English...
THANK - verb. Ability to cognitively process.
Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."
Things a Cat Thinks About...
Is there something I'm not getting when humans make noise with their mouths?
Politically Correct Terms for Females...
She does not have sexy lips,
she is collagen dependent.
Feel Smarter -- Instantly!...
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent of Schools, Barrington, Rhode Island
