August 30<\/p>\n
70 \u2013 Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod’s Temple.<\/p>\n
1574 \u2013 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru\/Master.<\/p>\n
1791 \u2013 HMS Pandora, <\/em>holding the captured prisoners from the HMS Bounty, <\/em>sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.<\/p>\n 1813 \u2013 Creek “Red Sticks” warriors kill over 500 settlers, including over 250 armed militia, in Fort Mims, Alabama during the Creek War.<\/p>\n 1836 \u2013 Brothers Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen found the city of Houston in the Republic of Texas.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 Confederate forces under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William “Bull” Nelson defending Richmond, Kentucky.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi airfield to set up temporary headquarters at Yokohama as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces occupying Japan.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 The Moscow\u2013Washington telephone hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 Shuttle Discovery<\/em> is launched on its maiden voyage in mission STS-41-D<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Azerbaijan declares independence as the Soviet Union comes to an end.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 After an 11 day standoff at his farm at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where his wife and one of his children are killed, Randy Weaver surrenders to federal authorities.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013\u00a0 NATO launches combat operations against Bosnian Serb forces in Operation Deliberate Force.<\/em><\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 Charles Bronson dies of cancer, age 81, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n 2021 \u2013 The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 30 70 \u2013 Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod’s Temple. 1574 \u2013 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru\/Master. 1791 \u2013 HMS Pandora, holding the captured prisoners from the HMS Bounty, sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day. 1813 \u2013 Creek “Red Sticks” … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95561,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58887\/revisions\/95561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}