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 


Ted Williams 1918, Jean-Claude Killy 1943, Peggy Lipton 1947 


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.


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.


1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.


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.