257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
526 – King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time.
1282 – Peter III of Aragon, originally traveling with his fleet on a military expedition against the Hafsid Kingdom, ends up in the Sicilian town of Trapani, after he was asked by the inhabitants of Palermo to help in the fight against Charles of Anjou.
1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders, Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
1464 – Pope Paul II (Pietro Barbo) succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Casimir IV.
1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, expelled.
1574 – Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590).
1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY)).
1673 Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant.
1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World.
1721 Russian and Swedish sign Treaty of Nystad, ending North Sea War.
1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
1751 George Frideric Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha".
1757 Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [OS=Aug 19]
1776 – The British awoke on Long Island and were stunned to find that General George Washington and the American army had escaped across the East River to Manhattan.
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day, on her return from her search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her.
1791 – 1791 Thomas Jefferson responds to Benjamin Banneker's letter on the issue of slavery.
1799 – In the Vlieter incident, a squadron of the Batavian (Dutch) Navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, surrendered to British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day, on her return from her search for the Bounty and the mutineers who had taken her.
1791 – 1791 Thomas Jefferson responds to Benjamin Banneker's letter on the issue of slavery.
1799 – In the Vlieter incident, a squadron of the Batavian (Dutch) Navy, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, surrendered to British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813 – First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835 – The City of Melbourne, Australia, is founded.
1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1843 First time African-Americans participate in a national political convention (Liberty Party)
1850 – Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city.
1860 First British tram begins operating in Birkenhead.
1861 John Frémont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels.
1862 – The Confederate forces are victorious over the Union forces in the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia.
1862 – Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright at Richmond, Kentucky, in one of the most lopsided engagements of the Civil War.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
1885 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda.
1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products.
1894 British explorer Frederick Lugard begins his expedition to Niger
1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas, 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 English engineer Hubert Cecil Booth patents the powered vacuum cleaner.
1905 Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge in German East-Africa
1914 – World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia ends in destruction of the Russian Second Army with 122,000-170,000 killed, injured or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff.
1914 First German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed.
1917 – Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
1918 Czechoslovakia forms independent republic.
1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1919 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung" premieres in Berlin.
1922 – Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India.
1932 Hermann Goering elected Chairman of the German Reichstag.
1933 Air France forms from five French airlines.
1933 Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar forms secret police (PIDE).
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| Grand Coulee Dam (before construction of 3rd Powerplant) |
1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army.
1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese fleet.
1939 Poland mobilizes for war.
1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945: General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, lands at Atsugi Air Force Base in Japan.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
1945 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th Symphony.
1951 US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact.
1954 – Hurricane Carol strikes the East Coast leaving 68 dead.
1956: The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opened. At 23.83 miles, it is the longest bridge over continuous water in the world.
1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1939 Poland mobilizes for war.
1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg.
1944 Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta" premieres in NYC.
1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
1945 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th Symphony.
1951 US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact.
1954 – Hurricane Carol strikes the East Coast leaving 68 dead.
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1956 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas
1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin
1961 James Benton Parsons is confirmed as 1st African American judge of a US District Court
1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
1961 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963: The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1966 American medical drama series "Dr. Kildare", starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, ends a five season run on NBC-TV
1967: Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1968 1st record released on Apple label in UK is The Beatles single "Hey Jude"
1969 3-day 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival opens in Tenino Washington - 25,000 attend; performers include: James Cotton; Country Joe and the Fish; Flying Burrito Brothers; Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks; Mississippi Fred McDowelll; Steve Miller Band; and Sons of Champlin
1969 3-day New Orleans Pop Festival opens - 25,000 attend; performers include: Spiral Staircase;. Rex; The Byrds; Janis Joplin: Grateful Dead; Chicago; Dr. John; and Santana
1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "One on One" benefit shows (matinee and evening) for children at Madison Square Garden, New York, his final full concert performance
1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "One on One" benefit shows (matinee and evening) for children at Madison Square Garden, New York, his final full concert performance
1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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
1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1983 8th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Challenger 3 launches for a 6-day excursion
1983 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1984 – 12th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (STS-41-D): Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)
1988 France performs nuclear test
1990 Tatarstan announces its sovereignty with the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi
1992 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 performances
1992 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
1992 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
1992 David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
1993 "Late Show with David Letterman" debuts on CBS, from the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC; Bill Murray is his first guest, Billy Joel performs
1993 150,000,000th visitor to Eiffel Tower
1993 Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, second largest mosque in the world
1994 Gund Arena in Cleve opens
1995 – Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1995 Cable News Network joins the internet
1998 – Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
1999 – East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
2007 NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock, where solar and interstellar winds met (following Voyager 1 in 2004)
2012 A blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
2012 Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
2013 15 people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China
2015 English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked for MI6 for more than 20 years
2015 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad calls for the removal of then Prime Minister Najib Razak during the second day of street protests
2017 Authorities say floods across Bangladesh, Nepal and India have killed more 1200 people and damaged 697,000 houses
2017 Brazilian court blocks President Michel Temer from abolishing Renca, which would open parts of the Amazon to mining
2017 Hurricane Irma forms near Cape Verde Islands, will go on to become category 5 hurricane and kill at least 102
2018 Argentina's central bank raises interest rates to 60% in attempt to stabilize the peso
2018 Ugandan pop star MP Bobi Wine re-arrested attempting to leave the country
2019 Outlook for the Great Barrier Reef downgraded to very poor according to official Australian report
2019 Second interstellar comet ever detected by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov (later named 2I/Borisov)
2020 Global cases of COVID-19 pass 25 million with death toll at 843,000
2020 India reports world's highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases at 78,761
2021 Algeria becomes the last country to stop selling leaded petrol, ending 99 years of gasoline use worldwide, saving 1.2 million lives a year
2021 America ends its longest-ever war of 20 years in Afghanistan as the last military evacuation plane flies out of Kabul
2021 China restricts online gaming for under 18s to one hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays ordering companies to enforce this
2022 In Jackson, Mississippi', the city's largest water treatment plant fails, leaving 150,000 people without safe running water, closing schools and businesses
2022 Ukraine begins a counterattack against Russia in the southern Kherson region
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Rose of Lima, Virgin. Double.
Commemoration of SS. Felix and him that joined him, Martyrs.
Commemoration of SS. Felix and him that joined him, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Alexander of Constantinople
Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
Blessed Stephen Nehmé
Fantinus
Felix and Adauctus
Fiacre
Jeanne Jugan
Narcisa de Jesús
Pammachius
Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
Blessed Stephen Nehmé
Fantinus
Felix and Adauctus
Fiacre
Jeanne Jugan
Narcisa de Jesús
Pammachius
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Charles Chapman Grafton (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
Hieromartyr Philonidis (Philoneidis) of Cyprus (3rd century)
6 Martyrs of Melitene, by drowning
16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes, by the sword
Saint Bryaene of Nisibis (318)
Saints Alexander (340), John the Faster (595), and Paul the New (784),
Patriarchs of Constantinople
The Venerable Guardian (Grk.: Ὁ Ὅσιος Φύλαξ)
Venerable Sarmata of "The Paradise", ascetic of the desert, Egypt (c. 362)
Saint Eulalius, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century
Saint Christopher of Palestine (Christopher the Roman, in Palestine) (6th century)
Saints Boniface and Thecla, parents of the Twelve Brothers commemorated on Sept 1 (c. 250)
Hieromartyr Felix, and Martyrs Fortunatus, Septiminus and Januarius, by beheading (c. 304)
Saint Pammachius, a Roman senator, married to one of the daughters of St Paula (c. 340-410)
Saint Loarn, a disciple of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century)
Saint Rumon, a bishop and patron-saint of Tavistock in England (6th century)
Saint Agilus (Ail, Aile, Aisle, Ayeul) (c. 580-650)
Saint Fiacrius (Fiacre, Fiaker, Fèvre), Irish hermit and hospice-founder at Breuil in Brie (c. 670)
Saints Pelagius, Arsenius and Sylvanus, nermits near Burgos in Old Castile in Spain,
martyred by the Saracens. (c. 950)
Venerable Fantinus of Calabria, the Wonderworker, in Thessalonica (974)
Saint Bononius, Abbot of Lucedio in Piedmont (1026)
Saint Peter of Trevi, he preached to the peasants of Tivoli, Anagni and Subiaco (c. 1050)
Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs:
Saints Sava I (1235), Arsenius (1266), Sava II (1271), Eustathius I (1285),
James (1292), Nicodemus (1325), and Daniel II (1338), Archbishops;
Saints Ioannicius II (1354), Spyridon (1388),[24] Ephraim II (1395), Cyril (1419),
Nicon (c. 1439), Macarius (1574),[25] and Gabriel I (1659),[26] Patriarchs;
St. Gregory (1012), Bishop.
Saint Alexander, Abbot of Vocha Monastery, near Galich (14th-15th century)
Repose of St. Alexander, Abbot of Svir (1533)
Saint Barlaam, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1657)
New Hieromartyr Peter, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest and Virgin-martyr Elizaveta, and Martyr Theodore (1937)
New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Lebedev), Schema-Archimandrite of the Vysokopetrovsky
Monastery (St. Peter’s Monastery), Moscow (1938)
New Hiero-confessor Peter Cheltsov, Archpriest, of Smolensk (1972)
Afterfeast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
Hieromartyr Philonidis (Philoneidis) of Cyprus (3rd century)
6 Martyrs of Melitene, by drowning
16 Monk-martyrs of Thebes, by the sword
Saint Bryaene of Nisibis (318)
Saints Alexander (340), John the Faster (595), and Paul the New (784),
Patriarchs of Constantinople
The Venerable Guardian (Grk.: Ὁ Ὅσιος Φύλαξ)
Venerable Sarmata of "The Paradise", ascetic of the desert, Egypt (c. 362)
Saint Eulalius, Bishop of Cyprus (4th century
Saint Christopher of Palestine (Christopher the Roman, in Palestine) (6th century)
Saints Boniface and Thecla, parents of the Twelve Brothers commemorated on Sept 1 (c. 250)
Hieromartyr Felix, and Martyrs Fortunatus, Septiminus and Januarius, by beheading (c. 304)
Saint Pammachius, a Roman senator, married to one of the daughters of St Paula (c. 340-410)
Saint Loarn, a disciple of St Patrick of Ireland (5th century)
Saint Rumon, a bishop and patron-saint of Tavistock in England (6th century)
Saint Agilus (Ail, Aile, Aisle, Ayeul) (c. 580-650)
Saint Fiacrius (Fiacre, Fiaker, Fèvre), Irish hermit and hospice-founder at Breuil in Brie (c. 670)
Saints Pelagius, Arsenius and Sylvanus, nermits near Burgos in Old Castile in Spain,
martyred by the Saracens. (c. 950)
Venerable Fantinus of Calabria, the Wonderworker, in Thessalonica (974)
Saint Bononius, Abbot of Lucedio in Piedmont (1026)
Saint Peter of Trevi, he preached to the peasants of Tivoli, Anagni and Subiaco (c. 1050)
Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs:
Saints Sava I (1235), Arsenius (1266), Sava II (1271), Eustathius I (1285),
James (1292), Nicodemus (1325), and Daniel II (1338), Archbishops;
Saints Ioannicius II (1354), Spyridon (1388),[24] Ephraim II (1395), Cyril (1419),
Nicon (c. 1439), Macarius (1574),[25] and Gabriel I (1659),[26] Patriarchs;
St. Gregory (1012), Bishop.
Saint Alexander, Abbot of Vocha Monastery, near Galich (14th-15th century)
Repose of St. Alexander, Abbot of Svir (1533)
Saint Barlaam, Metropolitan of Moldavia (1657)
New Hieromartyr Peter, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest and Virgin-martyr Elizaveta, and Martyr Theodore (1937)
New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Lebedev), Schema-Archimandrite of the Vysokopetrovsky
Monastery (St. Peter’s Monastery), Moscow (1938)
New Hiero-confessor Peter Cheltsov, Archpriest, of Smolensk (1972)
Coptic Orthodox
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