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August 30, 1998 State Farm Rail Golf Classic
August 30, 1997 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat New York Liberty
August 30, 1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (U.S. Open)
August 30, 1995 Cable News Network joins internet
August 30, 1995 Tigers teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell play in 1,914 game together tying AL record
August 30, 1994 Gund Arena in Cleveland opens
August 30, 1994 Largest U.S. Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
August 30, 1993 Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world
August 30, 1992 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 160 performances
August 30, 1992 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 229 performances
August 30, 1992 92nd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
August 30, 1992 David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
August 30, 1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
August 30, 1991 Dan O'Brien sets U.S. decathalon record with 8,812 points
August 30, 1991 France beats U.S. by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14 to 13
August 30, 1991 Mike Powell of U.S., sets then long jump record at 29' 4 " (8.95m)
August 30, 1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
August 30, 1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
August 30, 1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
August 30, 1988 France performs nuclear test
August 30, 1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
August 30, 1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
August 30, 1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
August 30, 1987 87th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
August 30, 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
August 30, 1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
August 30, 1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 home runs in Minnesota 10-6 win over Milwaukee
August 30, 1987 Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10")
August 30, 1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
August 30, 1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
August 30, 1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
August 30, 1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
August 30, 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
August 30, 1984 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
August 30, 1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
August 30, 1984 Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
August 30, 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
August 30, 1983 Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, New York, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
August 30, 1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila
August 30, 1983 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
August 30, 1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
August 30, 1981 Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
August 30, 1980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity
August 30, 1979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
August 30, 1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
August 30, 1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in U.S. Tennis Open, she loses
August 30, 1979 President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
August 30, 1979 Wildest U.S. Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
August 30, 1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
August 30, 1976 Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution
August 30, 1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
August 30, 1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
August 30, 1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
August 30, 1974 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
August 30, 1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings
August 30, 1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
August 30, 1971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
August 30, 1969 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival
August 30, 1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
August 30, 1969 69th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
August 30, 1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
August 30, 1968 1st record under Apple label, Beatle's Hey Jude
August 30, 1968 John and Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at MSG
August 30, 1967 U.S. Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
August 30, 1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
August 30, 1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
August 30, 1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
August 30, 1963 Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins
August 30, 1961 J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a U.S. District Court
August 30, 1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
August 30, 1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
August 30, 1961 U.S.S.R. says it will resume nuclear testing
August 30, 1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
August 30, 1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
August 30, 1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
August 30, 1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
August 30, 1957 U.S. senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
August 30, 1956 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
August 30, 1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
August 30, 1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
August 30, 1953 Future New York City mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City
August 30, 1951 U.S. and Philippines sign mutual defense pact
August 30, 1949 Roly Jenkins (Worcs vs. Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
August 30, 1949 WTVN (now WSYX) TV channel 6 in Columbus, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
August 30, 1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
August 30, 1945 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
August 30, 1945 General MacArthur lands in Japan
August 30, 1945 Hong Kong liberated from Japan
August 30, 1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
August 30, 1944 Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in New York City
August 30, 1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania
August 30, 1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
August 30, 1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WW II
August 30, 1941 St. Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cin Reds, 2-0
August 30, 1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
August 30, 1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
August 30, 1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
August 30, 1939 New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
August 30, 1939 Poland mobilizes
August 30, 1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
August 30, 1933 Air France forms
August 30, 1933 Portuguese dictator Salazar forms secret police (PIDE)
August 30, 1932 Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag)
August 30, 1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
August 30, 1927 41st U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)
August 30, 1926 Jack Hobbs scores 316* at Lord's (Surrey vs. Middlesex)
August 30, 1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
August 30, 1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
August 30, 1919 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
August 30, 1918 Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
August 30, 1918 Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
August 30, 1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech
August 30, 1916 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St. Louis Browns, 4-0
August 30, 1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
August 30, 1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
August 30, 1914 Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
August 30, 1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
August 30, 1912 St. Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
August 30, 1910 Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleveland 5-0 in 11
August 30, 1906 Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game
August 30, 1906 New York Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
August 30, 1905 Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
August 30, 1905 Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro
August 30, 1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
August 30, 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
August 30, 1900 Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
August 30, 1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
August 30, 1894 Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
August 30, 1893 13rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
August 30, 1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
August 30, 1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
August 30, 1862 2nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
August 30, 1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, KY
August 30, 1862 Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
August 30, 1860 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
August 30, 1854 John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
August 30, 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
August 30, 1843 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
August 30, 1831 Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
August 30, 1799 Bataafse fleet surrender to English
August 30, 1781 French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
August 30, 1776 U.S. Army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, New York City
August 30, 1757 Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia
August 30, 1751 Georg Friedrich Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
August 30, 1721 Russian/Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
August 30, 1682 William Penn left England to sail to New World
August 30, 1673 Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant
August 30, 1645 Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
August 30, 1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
August 30, 1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV
August 30, 1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
August 30, 1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
August 30, 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
August 30, 257 St. Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope



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