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Today In History - August 30 |
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On This Date in History |
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31BC Origin of the Era of Augustus 30BC Cleopatra 7th, queen of Egypt, commits suicide 257 St. Sixtus II begins his reign as the Catholic Pope 1645 The Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty 1831 Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle 1843 The first black participation in a national political convention: the Liberty Party 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city 1854 John Fremont issues a proclamation freeing the slaves of the Missouri rebels 1862 Battle of Altamont: 1885 13,000 meteors were seen in 1 hour near Andromeda 1888 Lord Walsingham kills 1,070 grouse in a single day 1905 Ty Cobb's first major league at bat 1916 Paul Von Hindenburg becomes Chief-of-General-Staff in Germany 1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began 1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania 1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan 1956 A mob of whites prevent the enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS in Texas 1961 The first Negro judge of a US District Court is confirmed: J. B. Parsons 1963 The 'Hot Line' communications link between Washington, DC and Moscow begins 1965 Casey Stengel announce his retirement after 55 years in baseball 1965 A piece of Allalin glacier destroys the construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland 1967 The US Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice 1968 The first record under the Apple label: the Beatle's "Hey Jude" 1974 An express train runs full speed into a Zagreb, Yugoslavia rail yard killing 153 people 1976 Tom Brokaw becomes the news anchor of the Today Show 1979 The first recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun: energy = 1-million hydrogen bombs 1979 President Carter is attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, GA 1986 The Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff of US News World Report magazine 1987 Yves Pol of France runs a complete marathon backwards in 3:57:57 1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen 1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills 1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner 1991 Mike Powell of the US sets a new long jump record of 29' 4" |
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30BC Cleopatra 7th, queen of Egypt, commits suicide… Cleopatra VII Philopator later became "Cleopatra Thea Neotera Philopator kai Philopatris." The name "Cleopatra" was popular among Egyptian queens. However, when the name Cleopatra is used, it is this queen who is most remembered. Cleopatra shared her rule of Egypt with her father, her brothers, her husbands, and her son. Her son, Ptolemy XV Caesarion, was the child of Caesar, and the rightful heir to the throne, but he was assassinated shortly after his mother's suicide. Cleopatra also had three children with Marc Antony. After having been told Cleopatra was dead, Antony committed suicide. The consensus is that Cleopatra died from the bite of an Asp, as did the two servants in the room with her at the time of her suicide. |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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580 Mohammed (founder of Islam) 1687 Francesco Maria Vallara 1693 Jacobus Nozeman 1748 Jacques-Louis David 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1804 Aleksandr I Polezjajev 1805 Michael Sars 1809 Adolf Friedrich Hesse 1811 Thomas Gautier 1820 George Frederick Root 1837 Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur 1842 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy 1844 Friedrich Ratzel 1849 Joseph Mallaby Dent 1871 Ernest Lord Rutherford 1878 Paul Hazard 1882 Meijer de Hond 1883 Theo Van Doesburg 1884 Theodor Svedberg 1887 Adam Kuckhoff 1889 Edward Ciannelli 1890 Sandor Remenyik 1893 Huey Long 1896 Raymond Massey 1900 Franklin C. Fry 1901 John C. Stennis 1901 John Gunther 1901 Roy Wilkins 1902 Arnold Maria Walter 1906 Countess of Longford 1907 Fred MacMurray 1907 Shirley Booth 1908 Leonor Fini 1908 Willie Bryant 1909 Joan Blondell 1909 Barry Appleby 1910 Donald Bisset 1912 Edward M. Purcell 1913 Allan David 1913 Thomas Torrance 1914 Julie Bishop 1917 Denis Healey 1918 Ted Williams 1919 Kitty Wells 1920 Ben Cami 1922 Regina Resnik 1923 Elias Victor Seixas 1923 Gerhard Wimberger 1925 Julien Schoenaerts 1926 Olgerts Gravitis 1927 Geoffrey Beene 1927 Pieter Willem Kee 1928 Bill Daily 1928 Johnny Mann 1928 Ruth Westerheimer (Dr. Ruth) 1930 Noel Harford 1930 Warren Buffett 1930 Warren Burger 1931 Carrie Saxon Perry 1931 John Leonard Swigert, Jr. 1933 Arne Mellnas 1935 John Phillips 1936 Fabrizia Ramondino 1938 Steve Delaney 1939 Elizabeth Ashley 1939 John Peel 1941 John McNally 1941 Sue MacGregor 1942 Jonathan Aitken 1942 Pervez Sajjad 1943 David Henry Maslanka 1943 Jean-Claude Killy 1943 Robert Crumb 1944 Charles Colbert 1944 Freek de Jonge 1944 John Surman 1944 Tug McGraw 1945 David Schiff 1946 Anne-Marie 1947 Peggy Lipton 1950 John Landis 1951 Timothy Bottoms 1954 David Paymer 1954 Gerard Hadders 1955 Martin Jackson 1955 Richard "Butch" Johnson 1956 Jayne Irving 1960 Vic Wilk 1962 Ricky Sanders 1964 Joan Bennett 1964 Michael Chiklis 1964 Stephen Baker 1964 Steve Smith 1966 John Terry, 1966 Michael Michele 1968 Vladimir Malakhov 1969 Jerold Jeffcoat 1971 Aubrey Beavers 1971 Joseph Fitzgerald 1971 Tre Johnson 1972 Cameron Diaz 1972 Jose Herrera 1972 Ryan Leahy 1972 Shonte Peoples 1973 Jimmy Herndon 1974 Matt Bongiovi 1975 Natalia Nadtochey |
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