August 30th, 2008

Today in History

1991:
Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.

1967:
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1873:
Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

1862:
American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run

1850:
Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

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