Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
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. | |
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| 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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