August 30 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for August 30
In the headlines today:

2002	J. Lee Thompson, director of such films as Cape Fear and The Guns of Navarone, dies in Canada of heart failure at age 88.
1997	The world learns of the Paris car crash that killed England's Princess Diana, her husband and Harrod's owner Dodi Fayed, and their driver.
1986	US News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff is arrested by Soviet authorities for suspicion of spying.
1983	Guion S. Bluford Jr, the first African-American astronaut, blasts off as a crewmember aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1968	John and Yoko Lennon's One on One concert at Madison Square Garden raises $250,000 to help mentally retarded children.
1967	The US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.
1965	Casey Stengel retires from baseball after a career spanning 40 years.
1963	The Hot Line phone linking the White House with the Kremlin was installed.
1954	Leo Fender files a US patent application for his tremolo guitar tailpiece (which would eventually be used on his Fender Stratocaster electric guitar). The patent would be granted on April 10, 1956. (photo credit: Musician's Friend)
1941	Nazi forces take the city of Mga as the siege of Leningrad begins during WWII.
1922	Tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
1905	Baseball slugger Ty Cobb makes his major league debut.
1862	Confederate troops defeat Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia.
1682	William Penn sails from England to America, where he would establish the Pennsylvania Colony.
1146	The crossbow is outlawed as a weapon of war by a conference of European leaders.
30 BC	Queen Cleopatra of Egypt commits suicide.