TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: AUGUST 30
1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time
1617 Rosa de Lima of Peru becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
1682 William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America.
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.
1941 The two-year siege of Leningrad during World War II began.
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1963 Telephone hotline Between Washington DC and Moscow is Established
1967 Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.
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
1982 Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War.
1983 Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.
1984 U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
1991 Azerbaijan Declares its Independence
1999 The residents of East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. The U.N. announced the result on September 4.
2001 The new Euro currency which will come into operation next year is formally introduced
2005 24 hrs after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 80% of the area flooded with up to 15 feet of water and the rescue operation continues with rescuers in helicopters and boats picking up hundreds of stranded people from roof tops.
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
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
