This Day in History - TDIH

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August 30

526 – King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.

1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.

1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.

1835 – Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.

1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.

1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.

1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

1995 – Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.