TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: AUG 30
1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time
1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Casimir IV
1617 Rosa de Lima of Peru becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
1721 The Peace of Nystad ends the Second Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia considerably more power in the Baltic region.
1776 Continental Army evacuates Long Island and falls back to Manhattan, NYC
1800 Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 Creek Indians massacre over 500 whites at Fort Mims, Alabama.
1861 Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. President Lincoln overrules the general.
1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products
1892 The Moravia, a passenger ship arriving from Germany, brings cholera to the United States.
1918 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia
1932 Nazi leader Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag.
1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so
1941 The two-year siege of Leningrad during World War II began.
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1963 A hot line between the Kremlin and the White House went into operation to reduce the chances of an accidental war.
1967 US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice.
1979 First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs.
1979 Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1986 KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days.
1991 Azerbaijan Declares its Independence The Central Asian country had been a part of the Soviet Union since 1920.
1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1999 East Timor residents voted to secede from Indonesia.
2017 Brazilian court blocks President Michel Temer from abolishing Renca, which would open parts of the Amazon to mining
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
