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Today in History
August 30

30 BC   Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, commits suicide.
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.
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.
1860   The first British tramway is inaugurated at Birkenhead by an American, George Francis Train.
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.
1932   Nazi leader Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag.
1944   Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops.
1957   In an effort to stall the Civil Rights Act of 1957 from passing, Senator Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) filibusters for over 24 hours. The bill passed, but Thurmond’s filibuster becomes the longest in Senate history.
1961   President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin.
1983   Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.

Born on August 30
1797   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist best known for Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.
1871   Ernest Rutherford, physicist who discovered and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation and was the first to achieve a man-made nuclear reaction.
1893   Huey P. Long, Louisiana politician who served as governor and U.S. senator, known as "The Kingfish."
1918   Ted Williams, Hall of Fame outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, the last man to hit .400 in a season.

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