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Sunday, 30 August 2026

1995

NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

1984

STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' takes off on its maiden voyage.

1974

A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

1967

Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

1963

The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

1962

Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

1956

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.

1945

Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.

The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

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