Today is Thursday, August 30, the 243rd day of 2012. There are 123 days left in the year.
31 B.C. ― Origin of Era of Augustus
1885 ― 13,000 meteors seen in one hour near Andromeda
1905 ― Ty Cobb's first major league at bat (Detroit Tigers)
1944 ― Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania
1945 ― Hong Kong liberated from Japan
1963 ― Hot line communications link between Washington, D.C. and Moscow goes into operation
1968 ― First record under Apple label (Beatle's ``Hey Jude”)
1969 ― 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival
1979 ― First recorded occurrence; comet hits sun (energy=1 million hydrogen bombs)
1979 ― President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga.