TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – AUG 30
1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time
1617 Rosa de Lima of Peru becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
1645 American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York.
1781 The French fleet arrives in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the American Revolution.
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.
1892 The Moravia, a passenger ship arriving from Germany, brings cholera to the United States.
1935 President Franklin Roosevelt’s Revenue Act, referred to as the Wealth Tax Act, increased taxes on rich citizens and big business, while lowering taxes for small businesses.
1937 The US refugee ship the SS President Hoover was bombed by Chinese aircraft while trying to remove Americans from the Shanghai district of China.
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.
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.
2000 Jeffrey Schilling an American has been taken hostage by the Terrorist Group Abu Sayyaf an Islamic separatist group who are fighting for an separate Islamic state in a predominantly Catholic Philippines.
2008 Italy and Libya reached an agreement in which Italy would pay a total of $5 billion to Libya over arguments dating back the colonial-era.
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