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30 Aug 2008
Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan's Slumdog Millionaire premiered at Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival.
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30 Aug 1999
People in East Timor Vote in a Referendum.
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30 Aug 1993
The second-largest mosque in Africa officially opened in Casablanca, Morocco.
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30 Aug 1993
The Eiffel Tower in Paris received its 150 millionth visitor.
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30 Aug 1991
Azerbaijan officially declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
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30 Aug 1983
Guion S. Bluford becomes the first African American to travel to space.
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30 Aug 1967
Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice.
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30 Aug 1965
Casey Stengel announced that he was retiring from managing the New York Mets after 55 years in baseball.
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30 Aug 1963
Hotline established between Washington and Moscow.
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30 Aug 1918
Fanny Kaplan, a Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary, attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
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30 Aug 1850
Honolulu became an official city.
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30 Aug 1835
The first Europeans started the first permanent settlement of Melbourne.
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30 Aug 1791
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
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30 Aug 1682
Captain William Penn set sail from Deal, England, on his famous voyage to the New World on his ship named 'Welcome.'
