August 30^th in history

Encyclopædia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history:

Historic spaceflight by Guion S. Bluford, Jr.: 30 August 1983 - This Day in History

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.

More Events on this day:

1862: During the American Civil War, the Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) ended with a decisive Confederate victory.

1800: Gabriel, an African American bondsman, assembled an army of about 1,000 slaves outside Richmond, Virginia, in the first major slave rebellion in U.S. history.

1637: Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her liberal viewpoints and criticism of the Puritans.

1282: The Aragonese landed at Trapani in support of the Sicilian revolt against Charles I, Angevin king of Naples-Sicily, which had begun with the Sicilian Vespers, a massacre of the French.

 

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Biography of the Day

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires, was the most gratifying consummation of my toils. But this discovery was so great and so overwhelming, that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born this day in 1797, was the English Romantic novelist best known as the author of Frankenstein (1818), which recounts the consequences that arise after a scientist builds a human being.

 

Massacre at Fort Mims: 30 August 1813 - This Day in History

In the Creek War on this day, a faction of the Creek nation of Native Americans swept down upon frontiersmen at a fortification at Lake Tensaw, north of Mobile, Alabama. The faction, known as the Red Sticks, preyed upon white settlements and fought with those Creeks who opposed them. The Fort Mims Massacre on this day, in which some 250 frontiersmen were killed, stirred the American South into a vigorous response. A militia led by General Andrew Jackson destroyed two Indian villages that fall: Tallasahatchee and Talladega.

More Events on this day:

1862: The Second Battle of Bull Run ended with a decisive Confederate victory, during the American Civil War.

1800: Gabriel, an African American bondsman, assembled an army of about 1,000 slaves outside Richmond, Virginia, in the first major slave rebellion in U.S. history.

1637: The Boston church banished Anne Hutchinson from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her liberal viewpoints and criticism of the Puritans.

1282: The Aragonese landed at Trapani in support of the Sicilian revolt against Charles I, Angevin king of Naples-Sicily, which had begun with the massacre of the French known as the Sicilian Vespers.