On this day in history - Today, August, 30

Today in History

• 1999 People in East Timor Vote in a Referendum

  The referendum was to decide whether East Timor should get more autonomy within Indonesia or whether

• 1991 Azerbaijan Declares its Independence

  The Central Asian country had been a part of the Soviet Union since 1920. In December 1991, a refere

• 1983 Guion Stewart Bluford is launched into Space

  Bluford, a fighter pilot for the US Air Force and part of the crew of STS-8, the third flight of NAS

• 1967 First African-American justice is Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court

  The United States Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall to the country’s highest court of justice. Mars

• 1963 Telephone hotline Between Washington DC and Moscow is Established

  The system of direct communication between the heads of then Soviet Union and now Russia and the Uni