August 30, 1979: Technical glitch causes fire at Vienna State Bank

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1849: After the suppression of an uprising against Austrian rule in northern Italy, Marshal Johann Joseph Wenzel Graf Radetzki moved to Venice.
1909: American paleontologist Charles Walcott discovered the fossil in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada. This fossil deposit provides insight into the Cambrian Period, approximately 505 million years ago.
1914: At the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia, the Russian Narew Army was defeated by German forces commanded by General Paul von Hindenburg. 90,000 Russian soldiers were captured by the Germans.
1929: The agreement, signed in The Hague, provided for the end of the occupation of the Rhineland by July 1930.
1934: Germany’s “Reich Youth Leader” Baldur von Schirach announced on the radio that more than 90% of the youth of the German Empire are united in the “Hitler Youth” (HJ).
1939: The Polish government ordered general mobilization and closed the “corridor” to East Prussia.
1944: Soviet troops occupied Romania’s oil regions.
1949: Chinese Civil War: The far western province of Xinjiang breaks away from the central government and joins the Communist Party in September.
1954: A treaty establishing a European Defense Community (EDC), which would have envisaged a federation of Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands, failed to pass in the French National Assembly, led by Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France. army.
1979: A technical glitch caused a major fire at the Vienna State Bank. The upper floors, including the particularly valuable library, were completely burned.
1984: Following “Columbia” and “Challenger”, “Discovery” is NASA’s third-generation American space transportation vehicle.
1999: In a United Nations-organized self-determination referendum, East Timorese overwhelmingly voted for independence for the former Portuguese territory occupied by Indonesia since 1975.
2004: The New York Republican Electoral Party Conference is dedicated to commemorating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were nominated for the November 2 election. This is just a formality (until September 2nd).

Birthday: Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist; 1926 Nobel Prize (1884-1971); Kitty Wells, American country singer (1919-2012); Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director , grandson of Richard Wagner, served as artistic director until 2008. Director of the Bayreuth Festival (1919-2010); Robert Hofmann, Oriental. Actor (1939-2022); Peter Maffay, German pop singer and composer (1949); Brigitte Totschnig, Eastern. Former skier (1954).
Days to death: Gaston Tissandier, French aviation pioneer (1843-1899); Ernst Ludwig von Wolzogen, German writer (1855-1934); Lindsay Anderson, British film director (1923-1994); Jean Seberg, American actress (1938-1979); Fritz Fitzke, Viennese projection artist (or 29.8.) (1961-2014).
Name day: Heribert, Felix, Rita, Ingeborg, Rosa, Sieglinde, Rebecca, Amadeus, Guarin, Benjamin, Tecla.

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