1918: Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin was shot twice in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
1926: Jack Hobbs scored 316 at Lords, the highest individual score recorded at the ground.
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1967: First African-American justice is Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
The United States Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall to the country’s highest court of justice. Marshall was also the first African-American to have held the post of Solicitor General of the United States.
1982: Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War.
1983: U.S. astronaut Guion S. Bluford, Jr., became on this day in 1983 the first African American to travel into space, serving as a mission specialist aboard the shuttle orbiter Challenger, and later flew on three other missions.
1991: Azerbaijan Declares its Independence
The Central Asian country had been a part of the Soviet Union since 1920. In December 1991, a referendum was held to make the country’s independence from the USSR official.
2003: American actor Charles Bronson—who was best known for his portrayal of tough guys, notably an architect turned vigilante in Death Wish (1974)—died in Los Angeles at age 81.
BIRTHS ON THIS DAY: August 30
Bruce Onobrakpeya, 92 years
Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya, a Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor was born on 30 August 1932. He has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Malmö Konsthall in Malmö, Sweden.
