30 AUGUST

1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time

1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India

1941 Siege of Leningrad by German troops begins during WWII

Famous Birthday's

Peter the Cruel
(1334 - 1369)

Ted Williams
(1918 - 2002)

Cameron Diaz
45th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Vera-Ellen
(1921 - 1981)

Charles Bronson
(1921 - 2003)

Seamus Heaney
(1939 - 2013)

Famous Weddings

1846 Author and Christian pioneer Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine

1940 CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts

1953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC

1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills

1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner

Famous Divorces

1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springs****