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 Historical Events on August 30 

• 257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
• 1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time
• 1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty
• 1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II as Pope Paul II
• 1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Casimir IV
• 1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, expelled
• 1574 Ram Das becomes the 4th Sikh Guru

 1890 President Benjamin Herrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products : 

• 1892 12th U.S. Men's National Championship: Oliver Campbell beats Fred Hovey (7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5)
• 1894 British explorer Frederick Lugard's expedition to Niger
• 1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
• 1896 Eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. Including provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite and Nueva Ecija
• 1897 The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
• 1900 Last 2,000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt, South Africa, freed
• 1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
• 1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
• 1905 Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa

Boxing Title Fight :

1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 

• 1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
• 1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
• 1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet
• 1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
• 1939 Poland mobilizes
• 1941 Siege of Leningrad by German troops begins during WWII
• 1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0 

Music Concert :

1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden  

1972 Japanese breaststroker Nobutaka Taguchi beats American pair Tom Bruce & John Hencken to win the 100m gold medal in world record 1:04.94 at the Munich Olympic Games

1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould with a world record 4:19.04 for the 400m, wins her second of 3 gold medals at the Munich Olympics

1972 American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp & Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; world record 3:55.19

1972 Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet team mate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games

1972 Slalom canoeing is introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all 4 events

1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings

1974 Express train runs at full speed into Zagreb, Yugoslavia, rail yard killing 153

1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg

1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)

1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of NBC's "Today Show"

1976 Turks & Caicos Islands adopts constitution

1979 -Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dominican Republic

1979 1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun, releases energy equal to one million hydrogen bombs

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