August 30

Tuesday 30, 2005:

The 17th Street Canal in New Orleans is breached by Hurricane Katrina, leading to massive flooding and destruction.

Friday 30, 2002:

The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas, ceases to operate.

Monday 30, 1999:

East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.

Monday 30, 1993:

The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.

Sunday 30, 1992:

Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Friday 30, 1991:

Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.

Thursday 30, 1990:

Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.

Thursday 30, 1984:

STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

Monday 30, 1976:

Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.

Wednesday 30, 1967:

Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Monday 30, 1965:

Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."

Friday 30, 1963:

1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.

Thursday 30, 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.

Thursday 30, 1945:

Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

Sunday 30, 1942:

World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.

Saturday 30, 1941:

Siege of Leningrad begins.

Wednesday 30, 1922:

Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")

Friday 30, 1918:

Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, 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.

Sunday 30, 1914:

Battle of Tannenberg

Monday 30, 1909:

Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott

Saturday 30, 1873:

Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

Saturday 30, 1862:

American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run

Friday 30, 1850:

Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

Monday 30, 1813:

Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.

Thursday 30, 1590:

Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

Friday 30, 1574:

Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master

Wednesday 30, 711:

K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of the Maya city of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.

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