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On and August
On August 3
, two massive headlands reared out of
the mists -- great gateways never before
, so far as Hudson knew
, seen by Europeans
.
On August 16
, 1837
, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended
the relationship
.
On August 6
, 1861
, Lincoln signed
the Confiscation Act that authorized judiciary proceedings
to confiscate
and free slaves
who were used
to support
the Confederate war effort
.
On August 12
, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on
the Wolff building at Third Ave
and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan
and the Flying A Studios origins
in La Mesa
, California
.
On publication of
the latter
, Poirot was
the only fictional character
to be given an obituary
in the New York Times ; 6
August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".
On 31
August, in the great Charles Alcock-edited magazine Cricket: A Weekly Record of The Game
, there appeared a mock obituary:

*
On the second Saturday
in August, people can wander through
the Night Market
in the balmy Summer evening
.
On 11
August 2009
, a magnitude 7 earthquake struck near
the Andaman Islands
, causing a tsunami warning
to go into effect
.
On 20
August 1233
, Andrew had a meeting with
the legate of Pope Gregory IX
in the woods of Bereg
, and they
made an agreement which ensured
the privileges of
the clergy
.
On 19
August 1978 —
the anniversary of
the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew
the nationalists
and popular Iranian prime minister
, Dr
. Mohammed Mossadegh —
the Cinema Rex
, a movie theatre
in Abadan
, Iran
, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers
in an attempt
to help
the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution
.
On 3 September 1928
, Fleming returned
to his laboratory having spent
August on holiday with
his family
.
On August 21
, 2009 it was announced that
the institution had changed its name
to Crandall University
in honour of Rev
.
On her return
to Haworth
, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate
, who started work
in the parish
in August 1839
.
On August 5
, 2008 Dan Haren signed a four-year
, $ 44
. 75 million deal with
the Diamondbacks worth a guaranteed $ 41
. 25 million through
2012 and including a $ 15
. 5 million club option
for 2013 with a $ 3
. 5 million buyout
.
On August 11
, 2008
, Dallas Buck
, RHP Micah Owings
, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded
to the Reds (
in last place
in the NL Central at
the time )
in exchange
for OF Adam Dunn
.
On August 31
, the Diamondbacks acquired former World Series MVP David Eckstein
to fill
the hole at second base which was opened after Orlando Hudson was placed on
the disabled list
.
On 17
August 2008 club chairman
and owner Franco Sensi died after a long illness ;
his place at
the chairmanship of
the club was successively taken by
his daughter Rosella
.
On August 22
, 2008
, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group
.
On 7
August 1919
, Charles Godefroy successfully flew
his biplane under
the Arc
.
On August 19
, 1727
, Bradley then embarked upon a further series of observations using a telescope of
his own erected at
the Rectory
, Wanstead
.
On 3
August 2007
, Mexican archaeologists announced discovery of what is believed
to be
the tomb of Ahuizotl beneath a sculpture of Tlaltecuhtli near
the Zócalo
in Mexico City
.
On August 20
, 1902
, President Theodore Roosevelt established
the Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve
, which formed
the heart of
the Tongass National Forest that covers most of
the region
.
On August 28
, Nami
and Ahmed al-Haznawi reportedly bothered a Delray Beach resident
, Maria Siscar Simpson
, to let them through her apartment
to retrieve a towel that had fallen off their balcony onto hers
.
On August 11
, 1973
, DJ Kool Herc was a D
. J
.
On and 30
On April
30, ceremonies commemorating
the departure of these volunteers will take place at 1:00 P.M. at
the Dexter Training Grounds
in Providence
.
On March
30, 2010
, a spokesman
for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door
in Luxor with inscriptions by User
, a powerful adviser
to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut
who ruled between 1479 BC
and 1458 BC
, the longest of any woman
.

*
On the British game show Countdown
, contestants are given
30 seconds
to make
the longest word from nine random letters
.
On September 22
, 1834
, Alcott opened a school of about
30 students
, mostly from wealthy families
.
On December
30, 1943
, during
the Japanese occupation
, Subhas Chandra Bose
, who was controversially allied with
the Japanese
, first raised
the flag of Indian independence
.
On 30 March 2010
, a magnitude 6
. 9 earthquake struck near
the Andaman Islands
.
On January 18
, 1999
, the Falcons upset
the top-seeded 15 – 1 Vikings at Minnesota
in the NFC Championship Game
, 30 – 27
in an epic overtime victory
.

Image showing shock waves from NASA's X-43A hypersonic research vehicle
in flight at Mach 7
, generated using a computational fluid dynamics algorithm
. On September
30, 1935 an exclusive conference was held
in Rome with
the topic of high velocity flight
and the possibility of breaking
the sound barrier
.
On a
30 metre high tower
, this turbine can provide enough power
to supplement solar power on cloudy days
.
On December
30, 1918
, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin
, who was Irish Catholic
and who, earlier that month
, had given birth
to their first son
, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone
.
On 30 January 1933
, Adolf Hitler
and the Nazi Party came
to power
.
On 17 /
30 May a peace treaty was signed between Turkey
and the Balkan Alliance
.
On 30 June 1878
, a feast had been arranged
in Paris by official decision
to honour
the French Republic (
the event was commemorated
in a painting by Claude Monet ).
On 17 July 2010
, the band performed their first UK gig
in almost four years
to a crowd of around
30, 000 at Latitude Festival
in Henham Park
, Southwold
.
On June
30, 2009
, the Orioles rallied
to score 10 runs against Boston Red Sox after facing a 10 – 1 deficit
in the 7th inning
, winning
the game by 11 – 10
, setting a Major League Baseball record
for the largest comeback by a last-place team over a first-place team
.
On March
30, 2006
, as a response
to the controversy of
the use of performance-enhancing drugs
and the anticipated career home run record
to be set by Barry Bonds
, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell
to lead an independent investigation into
the use of steroids
in baseball's recent past
.
On 30 October 2008 a spokesman
for the team announced that
the team would complete its last three performances of
the year with five jets instead of six
.
On June
30, 1945
, before ENIAC was
made, mathematician John von Neumann distributed
the paper entitled First Draft of a Report on
the EDVAC
.
On 18 January 2007
, Stoiber announced
his decision
to step down from
the posts of Minister-President
and CSU chairman by
30 September of that year
.
On April 12
, 2012, Bir
and 30 other officers were taken
in custody
for their role
in the 1997 military memorandum that forced
the then Turkish government
, led by
the Islamist Welfare Party
, to step down
.
On 30 November 1988
, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson (
the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library
in his former constituency
.

"
On the return voyage he discovered
and explored uninhabited Malden Island
in the central Pacific on
30 July 1825
.
On July 27th
, 2012, Fulham FC were granted permission
to redevelop
the Riverside Stand
, increasing
the capacity of Craven Cottage
to 30, 000 seats
.
On July
30, the Rockies hit an MLB record-setting 11 consecutive hits against
the Chicago Cubs
.
0.103 seconds.