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What happened in history on this day: August 30?
On August 30 in ...
- 1848 - Lieutenant Lucian K. Loeser departs California with a strongbox of 230 ounces of gold to show the Secretary of War in Washington DC.
- 1861 - John Frémont, commander of the Western Department, issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels.
- 1862 - Battle of Altamont - Confederates beat USA forces in Tennessee.
- 1862 - Second Battle of Manassas: US General John Pope defeated by CSA General Robert Lee; 13,824 casualties.
- 1890 - Antietam is established as a national battlefield in Maryland.
- 1963 - Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins.
- 1967 - US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as US Supreme Court justice.
- 1969 - 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival.
- 1969 - 25,000 attend second Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino, Washington.
- 1969 - Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia.
- 1983 - STS-8: Space Shuttle Challenger launched into space.
- 1984 - 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) - Discovery 1 - launched (6 days).
- 2004 - (to September 2) U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are re-nominated at the Republican National Convention in New York City.
- 2007 - United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident in which a B-52 flies from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base, Lousiana carrying six nuclear warheads.
- 2021 - The United States withdraws its last remaining troops from Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, ending 20 years of operations in Afghanistan.
Births on August 30
- 1893 - Birth of Huey "Kingfish" Long in Louisiana, USA; American politician, governor of Louisiana (1928-32), US Senator (Louisiana, Democrat, 1932-35).
- 1901 - Birth of John Gunther in Chicago, Illinois, USA; author/host (John Gunther's High Road).
- 1908 - Birth of Willie Bryant in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; singer ("Sugar Hill Times").
- 1908 - Birth of Fred MacMurray in Illinois, USA; actor (Steve Douglas - My Three Sons).
- 1909 - Birth of Joan Blondell in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides).
- 1917 - Birth of Julie Bishop in Denver, Colorado, USA; actress (Northern Pursuit, Threat).
- 1919 - Birth of Kitty Wells in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; country singer (Grand Ole Opry).
- 1922 - Birth of Regina Resnik in New York City, New York, USA; mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth).
- 1927 - Birth of Bill Daily in Des Moines, Iowa, USA; actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Newhart, The Bob Newhart Show).
- 1927 - Birth of Geoffrey Beene in Louisiana, USA; dress designer (8 Coty Awards).
- 1928 - Birth of Johnny Mann in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; music director (Johnny Mann's Stand Up and Cheer).
- 1931 - Birth of John L Swigert Junior in Denver, Colorado, USA; American astronaut (Apollo 13) (dies 1982).
- 1935 - Birth of John Phillips in South Carolina, USA; singer/songwriter (The Mamas and The Papas - "California Dreamin'", "San Francisco [Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair]").
- 1938 - Birth of Steve Delaney in Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA; newscaster (Monitor).
- 1939 - Birth of Elizabeth Ashley in Ocala, Florida, USA; actress (Coma, Evening Shade).
- 1947 - Birth of Peggy Lipton in Lawrence, New York, USA; actress (Julie - Mod Squad, Twin Peaks).
Deaths on August 30
- 1879 - John B Hood, Confederate States of America general (lost Atlanta, Georgia), dies at age 48.
- 1995 - Death of Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (born 1942).
- 2003 - Death of Charles Bronson AKA Charles Buchinsky of Alzheimer's and pneumonia at age 81; actor (Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Empire, Family of Cops I, II, & III).
- 2015 - Death of Wes Craven, American film director and writer (born 1939).
- 2015 - Death of Oliver Sacks, British-American neurologist and writer (born 1933).
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