Monday 30 August 2010

On This Day - 30th August


1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley born
1898 - Shirley Booth born
1908 - Fred MacMurray born
1918 - Ted Williams born
1930 - Warren Buffett born
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy born
1944 - Frank "Tug" McGraw born
1947 - Peggy Lipton born
1951 - Timothy Bottoms born
1953 - Robert Parrish born
1966 - Michael Michele born
1968 - Senior members of the Royal Family attend the funeral of Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent.
1972 - Cameron Diaz born
1973 - Lisa Ling born
1974 - Rich Cronin born
1976 - More than 100 police officers are taken to hospital after clashes at the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.
1980 - Striking Polish workers win a sweeping victory in a battle with their Communist rulers for the right to independent trade unions and the right to strike.
1982 - The leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Yasser Arafat leaves his Beirut headquarters after more than a decade and tennis player Andy Roddick born.
2001 - Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is charged with genocide - the most serious of all war crimes.

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