Sunday, August 30, 2015

History for August 30


History for August 30 - On-This-Day.com
Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1797 - Author, Emily Bronte 1818, Huey P. Long 1893 


Shirley Booth 1907, Fred MacMurray 1908, Ted Williams 1918 


Jean-Claude Killy 1943, Peggy Lipton 1947, Cameron Diaz 1972 


1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow. 


1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York


1682 - William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America. 


1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army. 


1862 - The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA


1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers. 


1956 - In Louisianna, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opened. 



1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame. 


1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement. 

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