August 30th
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- 1930
Warren Buffett, a prominent investor, is born. View Post →
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- 1682
William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World.
- 1850
Honolulu, Hawaii, is officially recognized as a city.
- 1885
About 13,000 meteors are seen in one hour near Andromeda.
- 1918
Fanya Kaplan fails in her attempt to assassinate Vladimir Lenin, the new leader of Soviet Russia.
- 1963
A hotline communication link is installed between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow. Although it is often known as the red telephone, no phones are ever used. Instead, they rely on Teletype equipment, fax machines, and, most recently, secure email.
- 1979
The first recorded instance of a comet striking the sun releases energy equivalent to one million hydrogen bombs.
- 2015
Rap artist Kanye West announces his intention to run for President in the 2020 election during the MTV Video Music Awards.
- 2018
A fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro destroys most of its 20 million artifacts, including the oldest human remains ever discovered in the Americas.
- 2019
An official Australian report downgrades the outlook for the Great Barrier Reef to very poor.
- 2021
China restricts online gaming for under-18s to one hour on Fridays, weekends, and holidays, and orders companies to enforce this restriction.
