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Old 08-30-2016, 12:39 PM   #231
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August 30

1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.

1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek of the "Red Sticks" faction kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.

1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.

1836 – The city of Houston, Texas is founded by brothers Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.

1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

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

1949 - Hank Williams went into Herzog Studio in Cincinnati to record 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'. Williams wrote the song originally intending that the words be spoken, rather than sung. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard.

1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

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

1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

1992 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.

1995 - Carly Simon and James Taylor performed live together in front of 10,000 fans on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. It was the first time they appeared live on the same stage since 1979.

2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

Births

1797 – Mary Shelley; 1896 – Raymond Massey; 1906 – Joan Blondell; 1908 – Fred MacMurray; 1912 – Nancy Wake (genuine badass); 1918 – Ted Williams; 1919 – Kitty Wells♪ ♫; 1926 – Daryl Gates; 1927 – Bill Daily (I Dream Of Jeannie); 1930 – Warren Buffett ($$$); 1935 – John Phillips♪ ♫(The Mamas & The Papas); 1937 – Bruce McLaren; 1941 – Ben Jones ('Cooter' on The Dukes of Hazzard); 1943 – Robert Crumb (created Fritz The Cat); 1948 – Lewis Black; 1950 – Antony Gormley (sculptor Angel of the North); 1951 – Timothy Bottoms; 1954 – David Paymer; 1956 – Frank Conniff (MST3K); 1963 – Michael Chiklis (The Shield, Fantastic Four), Paul Oakenfold♪ ♫(dj); 1972 – Cameron Diaz; 1973 – Lisa Ling; 1982 – Andy Roddick

Deaths

1879 – John Bell Hood; 1938 – Max Factor, Sr.; 1961 – Charles Coburn; 1968 – William Talman ('District Attorney Burger' on Perry Mason); 1979 – Jean Seberg; 1993 – Richard Jordan; 1995 – Sterling Morrison(The Velvet Underground); 2003 – Charles Bronson; 2006 – Glenn Ford; 2015 – Wes Craven
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