Thursday, August 30, 2012

August 30th in History


1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.

1914 - World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg

1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

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

1981 - President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

1999 - East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.

Famous Birthdays:

1808 - Princess Ludovika of Bavaria

1917 - Denis Healey, British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer

1919 - Wolfgang Wagner, opera director

1934 - Baloo Gupte, cricketer

1951 - Dana Rosemary Scallon, singer and politician

1963 - Mark Strong, actor

1985 - Steven Smith, footballer

1989 - Simone Guerra, footballer


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