41st year - Nr 242 Sunday, 30 August 2026

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41st year - Nr 242 Sunday, 30 August 2026

30 August / Today's 29 Events:

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(-) 845 years ago Sunday 30th of August 1181 King of Scots Alexander III aka Alaxandair mac Alaxandair dies of unknown causes at the age of 60 in Civita Castellana, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 278 years ago Friday 30th of August 1748 Painter Jacques-Louis David is born in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 229 years ago Wednesday 30th of August 1797 Writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, originally Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin known her novel Frankenstein is born in The Polygon, Somers Town, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 176 years ago Friday 30th of August 1850 Professor of chemistry and geology and murderer John White Webster is executed by hanging at the age of 57 in Leverett Street Jail, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 143 years ago Thursday 30th of August 1883 Artist and architect Theo van Doesburg, originally Christian Emil Marie Küpper is born in Teelingstraat 13, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

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(x) 108 years ago She Considered Him a Traitor to the Revolution Friday 30th of August 1918 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, originally Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov is shot by revolutionary Fanya Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia. Kaplan approached Lenin at his automobile after a meeting at the Former Michelson Works; he was resting a foot on the running board as he spoke with a woman. Kaplan called to Lenin, and when he turned to face her she shot at him three times. The first bullet struck his arm, the second bullet his jaw and neck, and the third missed him, wounding the woman with whom he was speaking. The wounds felled him and he became unconscious. "My name is Fany a Kaplan. Today I shot at Lenin. I did it on my own. I will not say from whom I obtained my revolver. I will give no details. I had resolved to kill Lenin long ago. I consider him a traitor to the Revolution."

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(-) 91 years ago Friday 30th of August 1935 Writer Henri Barbusse dies of pneumonia at the age of 62 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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(+) 89 years ago Monday 30th of August 1937 Formula One racer Bruce Leslie McLaren is born in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.

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(+) 87 years ago He Was Not Unlistenable Wednesday 30th of August 1939 Disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist John Peel, originally John Robert Parker Ravenscroft is born in Heswall Cottage Hospital, Heswall, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

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(+) 78 years ago He Was a Gifted Child Monday 30th of August 1948 Deputy chairman of the Black Panthers Fred Hampton is born in Summit, Illinois, United States.

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(+) 77 years ago Tuesday 30th of August 1949 Musician Peter Maffay, originally Peter Alexander Makkay known for his hit ‘Du’ is born in Brașov, Brașov County, Romania.

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(+) 66 years ago Tuesday 30th of August 1960 Victim of Arthur Shawcross aka The Genesee River Killer Elizabeth Liz Gibson is born in Rochester, New York, United States.

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(-) 59 years ago Wednesday 30th of August 1967 Abstract expressionist painter Ad Adolph Frederick Reinhardt dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(-) 56 years ago Sunday 30th of August 1970 Amateur filmmaker Abraham Zapruder known for his JFK Assassination Movie dies of stomach cancer at the age of 65 in Dallas, Texas, United States.

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(x) 55 years ago Monday 30th of August 1971 Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground in retaliation for the killing of Black Activist George Jackson in Office of California Prisons, Sacramento, California, United States. At the same time the office in San Francisco was also bombed.

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(x) 52 years ago Friday 30th of August 1974 153 die in Belgrade-Dortmund Express derailment in Zagreb Glavni Kolodvor, Zagreb, Zagrebačka županija, Croatia. An investigation into the accident showed that the train at several sites exceeded the speed limit by nearly 70 km/h.

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(x) 51 years ago Saturday 30th of August 1975 29-year-old Serial killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness is baptised in the Church of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Bundy later converted to Hinduism while on death row.

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(-) 47 years ago Thursday 30th of August 1979 Actress Jean Dorothy Seberg commits suicide by an overdose of barbiturates and alcohol at the age of 41 in Rue du Général-Appert, XVIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. Seberg was found on 8 September 1979 in the backseat of her white Renault 5.

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(+) 44 years ago Monday 30th of August 1982 School shooter Kip Kinkel aka The Thurston High School Shooter is born in Springfield, Oregon, United States.

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(-) 35 years ago Ses Méta Matics Arrêtés Friday 30th of August 1991 Artist Jean Tinguely dies of heart failure at the age of 66 in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland.

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(-) 32 years ago Tuesday 30th of August 1994 Film director Lindsay Gordon Anderson dies of unknown causes at the age of 71 in Angoulème, Poitou-Charentes, France.

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(-) 31 years ago Wednesday 30th of August 1995 Musician Sterling Holmes Morrison known from The Velvet Underground dies of lymphoma at the age of 53 in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

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(-) 26 years ago Wednesday 30th of August 2000 Triple murderer Jeffery Henry Caldwell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Caldwell stabbed and beat his 47-year-old father Henry, his 46-year-old mother Gwendolyn and his 19-year-old sister Kimberly to death on 25 July 1988. The bodies of all three were discovered wrapped in blankets and stuffed into a camper-trailer parked behind the family's south Dallas home 7439 Oakmore Drive.

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(-) 23 years ago Saturday 30th of August 2003 Actor Charles Bronson, originally Charles Dennis Buchinsky dies of respiratory failure at the age of 82 in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States. Although pneumonia and/or Alzheimer's disease have been cited as Bronson's cause of death, neither appears on his death certificate, which cites "respiratory failure", "metastatic lung cancer", with secondarily "chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" and "congestive cardiomyopathy" as the causes of death.

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(-) 22 years ago Monday 30th of August 2004 Self-trepanation pioneer Bart Hugo Huges dies of a heart disease at the age of 70 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

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(x) 19 years ago Thursday 30th of August 2007 The California Board of Prison Terms denies parole to 58-year-old Manson Family member Leslie Louise Van Houten aka Lulu in California Institution for Women, Chino, California, United States. It was Van Houten's 18th unsuccessful application.

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6 years ago The Eyes had it Sunday 30th of August 2020 The wild North Sea as seen from the sixth floor in San Rocco, Mariakerke, Oostende, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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5 years ago The Eyes had it Monday 30th of August 2021 A derelict WWII bunker in Rivierenhof, Deurne, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 4 years ago Tuesday 30th of August 2022 8th and last President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev dies after a 'severe and prolonged illness' at the age of 91 in Central Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

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