THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007

Today is Thursday, August 30, the 241st day of 2007. There are 124 days left in the year.

31 B.C. _ The Origin of Era of Augustus

1645 _ Dutch and Indians sign a peace treaty

1854 _ John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels

1885 _ 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda

1941 _ The siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WWII

1944 _ Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania

1945 _ Hong Kong liberated from Japan

1963 _ A hotline communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow begins

1967 _ The U.S. Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice

1976 _ Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show

1986 _ Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (U.S. News and World Report)

1987 _ Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 seconds

1991 _ Dan O'Brien sets U.S. decathalon record with 8,812 points