August 30th 2013 - This Date in History.

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526 – King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.
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 ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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 – Melbourne is founded.
1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
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.
1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
1918 – Fanny 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.
1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1942 – World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
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 Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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. 8 are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
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.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1998 – Second Congo War: Government troops and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1999 – East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

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Today's Canadian Headline....


1988 VICKI KEITH ENDS HER MARATHON SWIM
Toronto Ontario - Canada's Vicki Keith staggers ashore from Lake Ontario, ending her marathon swim of all 5 Great Lakes and setting the women's world distance record of 38 km for the butterfly stroke; Keith started her marathon on July 1.

1812
Winnipeg Manitoba - Miles Macdonnell 1769-1828 Lord Selkirk's agent and a former soldier, arrives with the first settlers, mostly Scottish, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, to found the Red River Settlement. As first Governor of Assiniboia, his duty is to establish the colony on land acquired by Selkirk from the Hudson's Bay Company; he builds Fort Douglas near the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar. The colony will be destroyed in a feud with the Norwesters in 1815, but will be re-established by Selkirk in 1817.
In Other Events....
1990 Ottawa Ontario - Brian Mulroney 1939-appoints five new Senators to break GST & UIC logjams in the Senate; standings 32 PCs, 52 Liberals; Pat Carney (former MP for Vancouver Centre and Minister of International Trade), Mario Beaulieu (Montreal businessman who headed 1988 PC campaign in Quebec), Nancy Teed (NB PC organizer), Gerald Comeau (former MP from Nova Scotia), Consiglio di Nino (President of Cabot Trust and former PC fundraiser from Toronto).
1990 Las Vegas, Nevada - Ottawa native Paul Anka takes out American citizenship; pop singer, songwriter.
1987 Rome Italy - Toronto sprinter Ben Johnson runs the 100m dash at the world track and field championships in a world record 9.83, cutting one-tenth of a second from the previous record of 9.93 set by Calvin Smith four years earlier; record later erased by IAAF because Johnson admitted using steroids; in 1988, he will win gold at the Seoul Olympics with a time of 9.79 seconds but will be stripped of the medal after testing positive for steroids.
1976 Winnipeg Manitoba - Manitoba Liquor Commission fined $300,000 for violating federal wage and price controls; first case of provincial agency fined under controls.
1976 Gravenhurst Ontario - Group of 17 Chinese officials attends official opening Norman Bethune's restored birthplace, operated by Parks Canada; served as a surgeon during Mao's long march, and died in China of blood poisoning.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Group of 200 aboriginal protesters start 2-day occupation of the Indian and Northern Affairs building to demand a halt to the James Bay power development until Cree land claims are settled; also protest DINA's youth liaison program.
1973 Ottawa Ontario - Striking rail workers force their way into the Centre Block of the Parliament buildings.
1972 BC - David Barrett 1930- leads the NDP to victory over WAC Bennett's Social Credit Party, taking 39 seats in the British Columbia provincial election; upsetting 20 years of Socred rule.
1972 Winnipeg Manitoba - Blue Bomber Mack Herron sets CFL record with 120 yard kickoff return.
1959 Montreal Quebec - End of Montreal streetcar service.
1957 London England - Ottawa native Paul Anka's hit single Diana peaks at #1 on the UK pop singles chart and stays there for nine weeks.
1968 Ottawa Ontario - Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1919- cancels Winter Works Program first started in 1958-59.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament legislates end of Canada-wide strike of 15 rail unions which tied up railway and telegraph services, forces union back to work; sets up new arbitrator for this and future strikes.
1944 Rimini Italy - Two brigades of the First Canadian Corps cross the Foglia River and fight their way through the German Gothic Line toward Rimini.
1940 England - RAF's 'Canadian' Squadron sees action in Battle of Britain.
1932 Los Angeles, California - Canadian team attends opening of the tenth Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
1916 France/Belgium - Canadian Corps enters the Battle of the Somme, raging since July 1; engagements follow at Courcelette, Thiepval and Ancre Heights, end in the mud of mid-November with almost 25,000 Canadian casualties.
1907 Quebec Quebec - Opening of Inquiry into the collapse of the Quebec Bridge.
1873 Winnipeg Manitoba - George Arthur French 1841-1921 forms first detachment of North-West Mounted Police with 150 recruits.
1860 Quebec - Prince of Wales visits St-Hyacinthe and Sherbrooke.
1856 London England - Sir John Ross 1777-1856, Royal Navy officer, dies at age 79; born at Balsarroch, Scotland June 24, 1777. In 1817, Ross charted Baffin Bay; 1829-33 explored Lancaster Sound-Somerset Island in search of Northwest Passage; icebound on his ship, Victory, off the coast of Boothia Peninsula for four winters; 1831 his nephew and second-in-command, James Clark Ross, located the North Magnetic Pole on Boothia's west coast; 1850 commanded Felix in unsuccessful search for Franklin.
1856 Montreal Quebec - Abbé Chiniquy excommunicated; firebrand defector from Roman Catholic Church.
1851 London England - Parliament passes the Canadian Currency Act, specifying a conversion to decimal currency, and making the dollar legal tender, up to $10 per transaction; any new coins struck for Canada must have approval of British Government.
1851 Victoria BC - Legislative Council of Vancouver Island holds first session.
1843 Saskatchewan - Rupert's Land native Abishabis burned to death by his tribe to destroy his murderous spirit, after being caught and jailed by HBC after he killed an in-law's family and stole food and a canoe; claimed to be Jesus.
1611 Newfoundland - Newly appointed Governor John Guy issues Newfoundland's first laws; to protect forests and harbours and regulate the fishery.

End of C/P.