Some of the significant events which took place on August 30 taken from the leaf of History:

1923 – U.S.A. Pirates: Seven pirates who attacked a British Rum Schooner killing the captain and cook are being sought by British and US authorities.

1935 – U.S.A. Wealth Tax Act: President Franklin Roosevelt’s Revenue Act, referred to as the Wealth Tax Act, increased taxes on rich citizens and big business, while lowering taxes for small businesses.

1937 – US Refugee Ship Bombed: The US refugee ship the SS President Hoover was bombed by Chinese aircraft while trying to remove Americans from the Shanghai district of China. US destroyers are steaming to the area but in the meantime British warships are guarding the vessel from further attacks.

1945 – Japan American Occupation Forces: General MacArthur landed today in Japan today with 18,150 occupation forces where he will based in Yokohama.

1951 – Native American Refused Burial: A Native American soldier killed in the war in Korea was refused a burial in a cemetery in Winnebago, Nebraska on the grounds of race. The president of the United States President Truman heard about this travesty of justice and offered the widow a plot in Arlington National Cemetery, stating no person should be refused a burial based on race, creed or color.

1959 – UK Austin Mini: The first “Austin Mini 7” called an Austin Seven from the British Motor Corporation (Sir Alec Issigonis) goes on sale for £497 (first shown on August 14th) making it one of the cheapest saloon cars available in answer to the fuel shortage and petrol rationing caused by the Suez Canal crisis in 1956. The car had a four-cylinder water-cooled transverse mounted 850 cc engine, four speed gearbox and front wheel drive, because of the design and suspension the ride was hard but the handling was legendary for a cheap non-sports car. The name Mini was not used on the cars until 1962 as the press and the public had already renamed the car. The most popular British-made car ever gained (5.4 million sold) in popularity as it was featured in movies, driven by trendy pop stars and movie celebrities and had considerable success as a rally car winning the Monte Carlo Rally in 1964/1965 and 1967.

1963 – Direct Line between Moscow and Washington: Following the capabilities of both sides having enough Nuclear Capability to destroy each other and the rest of the world (the United States and the Soviet Union) set up a 24 hour a day direct line between Moscow and Washington to prevent the possibility of an accidental war.

1967 – U.S.A. Thurgood Marshall: Following President Johnson appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American to the Supreme Court on June 13th. The Senate confirms his appointment as the first black justice on the Supreme Court.

1976 – UK Noting Hill Carnival: Noting Hill Carnival celebrating its 10th year and attracting more than 150,000 people ends in riots following clashes with police.

1978 – Italy Turin shroud: The Turin shroud believed to be the Jesus Christs Burial Cloth has gone on show for only the third time this century and 160,000 pilgrims have so far flocked to view it, the new pope had planned to visit but concerns over the increased crowds due to the papal visit may not allow the Pontiff to visit.

1980 – Poland Trade Union Rights: After two months of fighting with communist leaders, striking Polish workers led by Lech Walesa have won the right to form independent trade unions and the right to strike. The agreement by the communist government comes after industrial unrest for the last 2 months and the looming possibility of a threatened nationwide general strike scheduled for the following week.

1982 – Lebanon Yasser Arafat: Following the invasion by Israeli forces 3 months ago in an attempt to wipe out Palestinian guerrilla bases which have threatened and attacked Israel, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat has been forced to abandon his Beirut headquarters.

1989 – U.S.A. Leona Helmsley: Leona Helmsley the billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor is convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Later most charges were dropped and she served served 18 months in federal prison. 1 count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, 3 counts of tax evasion, 3 counts of filing false personal tax returns, 10 counts of mail fraud
She is best known for a quote to a former housekeeper Elizabeth Baum when asked about her taxes “We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.”

2000 – Jeffrey Schilling Taken Hostage by Terrorist Group: Jeffrey Schilling an American has been taken hostage by the Terrorist Group Abu Sayyaf an Islamic separatist group who are fighting for a separate Islamic state in a predominantly Catholic Philippines. The group have only just released six other hostages this week for a reported $6m ransom. Jeffrey Schilling escaped from the terrorist hide out 7 months later with no ransom paid.

2001 – Euro Currency Formally Introduced: The new Euro currency which will come into operation next year is formally introduced and shown to the press in Frankfurt, Germany prior to its legal tender status from January next year.

2005 – 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 80% of the area flooded with up to 15 feet of water and the rescue operation continues with rescuers in helicopters and boats picking up hundreds of stranded people from roof tops. Between 20,000 and 25,000 people are inside the Louisiana Superdome which was designated “as a refuge of last resort”. Looting spreads throughout the city, even in broad daylight and in the presence of police officers.

2008 – Libya Deal with Italy: Italy and Libya reached an agreement in which Italy would pay a total of $5 billion to Libya over arguments dating back the colonial-era. The deal would take twenty-five years to complete by making annual payments of $200 million of investments in infrastructure.

2009 – Japan Election: Yukio Hatoyama and the Democratic Party swept Japan’s elections. The party and new leader gained control over the control after nearly 48 years of constant control by the Liberal Democrat party.

2012 – London Paralympic Games Begin: The Paralympic Games were officially opened by the Queen after the commencement of a spectacular ceremony in London. The opening ceremony featured Professor Stephen Hawking and Sir Ian McKellen and saw another 3,000 volunteers participate.

2013 – India Launches Defense Satellite: India successfully launches its GSAT-7 defense satellite, the first defense satellite for the country. The satellite was launched from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

2015- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 32 civilians were among 91 people executed for “crimes” in the jihadist group’s self-proclaimed caliphate between July 29 and August 29.

2015 – In central Syria Islamic State militants in Syria destroyed the main building of the 2,000-year-old Bel Temple in Palmyra, considered one of the greatest sites of the ancient world.

2015 – In southeastern Turkey a child, 3 other civilians and 2 police officer were killed in violence following the breakdown of a ceasefire between the government and Kurdish militants in Diyarbakir province.

2015 – The United States and its allies staged 15 airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and seven in Syria over the last 24 hours.

2015 – In Yemen gunmen on a motorbike shot dead Colonel Abdelhakim al-Sanidi, the director of security operations in Aden. A Saudi-led coalition air raid struck a factory in northern Yemen killing 17 civilians and 14 Shiite Huthi rebels.

2016 – Cambodian police arrested 64 people from mainland China and Taiwan, accusing them of taking part in an internet scam. They were accused of defrauding victims in China using phone calls made over the internet.

2016 – The EU ordered Apple to pay a record 13 billion euros in back taxes in Ireland, saying deals allowing the US tech giant to pay almost no tax were illegal. Apple derided the ruling. Ireland’s tax collection agency, the Revenue Commissioners, insisted that Apple hasn’t dodged a penny of lawfully calculated tax in Ireland.

2016 – Vera Caslavska (74), a seven-time Olympic gymnastics gold medalist who stood up against the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, died in Prague.

2016 – Greece’s left-wing government launched an auction for four private national television licenses, reducing the number from seven after a heated public debate on corruption in the financially troubled country.

2016 – More than 460 migrants and refugees arrived on Greek islands from Turkey, the highest in several weeks, despite a European Union deal with Ankara agreed in March to close off that route.

2016 – Iran’s state media reported that authorities have released Omid Kokabee, a man jailed while home from his graduate studies in Texas. He was arrested in February 2011 and convicted of having “relations with a hostile country” and receiving “illegitimate funds.” The judiciary will allow Kokabee to enjoy “conditional freedom” for the rest of his 10-year sentence.

2016 – Israel’s military overnight destroyed the home in Dura of Mohammed Abed Almajid Mohammed El-Amaira (38), a Palestinian accused of involvement in the July 1 shooting attack in the occupied West Bank that led to the death of a rabbi.

2016 – In northeastern Japan Typhoon Lionrock made landfall near the city of Ofunato, dumping heavy rain and generating high waves that caused flooding along the Pacific coast.

2016 – Kenyan scientist Andrew Mude (39) won the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application for developing livestock insurance, using state-of-the-art technologies, for herders in East Africa’s dry lands.

2016 – A South African school was ordered to suspend allegedly racist hairstyle regulations after black pupils said they had been called monkeys by teachers for wearing banned ‘afros’.

2016 -In Syria top Islamic State group strategist and spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani was killed. US coalition forces had targeted Adnani, who had a $5 million bounty on his head, in an air strike in Aleppo province.

2016 – In Syria retired Iranian general Ahmad Gholami, died while fighting in Aleppo. He had served as a senior Revolutionary Guards commander in the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s.

2017 – In Texas a federal judge temporarily blocked most of the state’s tough new “sanctuary cities” law that would have allowed police to inquire about people’s immigration status during routine interactions. The law was to take effect on Sep 1.

2017 – Tropical Storm Harvey bore down on eastern Texas and Louisiana, bringing the catastrophic downpours that paralyzed the US energy hub of Houston with record rainfall and drove tens of thousands of people from their homes.

2017 – In Afghanistan at least 11 civilians were killed and 16 wounded when a NATO helicopter attacked a house where Taliban insurgents had taken shelter in Logar province, east of Kabul.

2017 – In Saudi Arabia hundreds of thousands of Muslims began the annual haj pilgrimage, donning traditional white garments and heading to a tent camp outside Mecca in an itinerary retracing the route Prophet Mohammad took 14 centuries ago.

2017 – South Africa’s Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana said South Africa has detected 24 outbreaks of the H5N8 strain of bird flu since June, including 10 at commercial chicken farms and three at ostrich farms.

2018 – An Ethiopian military helicopter crashed in the Oromia region and killed all 18 people on board, including two children.

2018 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Ghana during a three-nation West Africa visit aimed at boosting investment in a region that is a major source of migrants heading toward Europe. Merkel first stopped in Senegal, another of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, and will continue on to Nigeria.

2018 – India’s main opposition Congress party lashed out at PM Narendra Modi after central bank data showed that his shock 2016 move to ban high-value notes failed to meet his key objective of flushing out money hidden from the tax man.

2018 – A district in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province banned unmarried couples from sitting at the same table in restaurants, cafes or coffee shops. The regulation also prohibits restaurants and coffee shops from hiring lesbians, gays, or bisexual or transgender people as waiters or waitresses.

2018 – In Pakistan thousands of hardline Islamists angered over a far-right Dutch lawmaker’s plans to hold a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest marched toward the capital after police briefly stopped them because of security reasons.