Today in History for 30th August 2026

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Historical Events

1918 - Czechoslovakia forms an independent republic
1944 - 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769 attendees)
1972 - American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp, and Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 seconds to win gold at the Munich Olympics with a world record time of 3:55.19
2013 - Fifteen people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China
2019 - Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has his Twitter account hacked; racist comments are posted in his name

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Famous Birthdays

1914 - Julie Bishop [Jacqueline Wells], American actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2001)
1923 - Gerhard Wimberger, Austria composer (Glove), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2016)
1939 - John Peel [Ravenscroft], British popular music radio presenter (BBC Radio 1, 1967-2004), born in Heswall, England (d. 2004)
1960 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, American Medal of Honor recipient, born in Lincoln, Maine (d. 1993)
1996 - Trevor Jackson, American actor (Grown-ish), and RandB singer-songwriter ("Drop It"), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

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Famous Deaths

1974 - Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
1991 - Alan Wheatley, British actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies from a heart attack at 84
2007 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author and expert, dies at 65
2013 - Lotfollah "Lotfi" Mansouri, Persian opera director (Canadian Opera Company, 1976-88; introduced opera surtitles, 1983; San Francisco Opera, 1988-2001), dies at 84
2022 - Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91), dies after an unspecified long and grave illness at 91

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