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On This Day In History for August 30, 2023

This is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining in 2023.

It was on this date in 1873, that Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discovered the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea

Also today in 1909, Burgess Shale fossils were discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott

August 30, 1916, Ernest Shackleton completed the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica

Also on August 30, 1984, the Space Shuttle Discovery took off on its maiden voyage on mission STS-41-D.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

English novelist and playwright, Mary Shelley, born on this date in 1797.

Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff was born 171 years ago today.

Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist was born on that same date in 1856.

Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Theodor Svedberg, born on this date in 1884.

Austrian mathematician, Olga Taussky-Todd was born 117 years ago today.

John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company was born on that same date in 1907.

American pilot and astronaut, Jack Swigert, born on this date in 1931.

Also born on that same date in 1956,  American actor, producer, and screenwriter,TV’s Frank Conniff.

Listener Birthdays

August

30 – Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden

31 – Tim Downing

September

1 – David Kloempken

2 – Scott Tyler

5 – Ben Vaughan (benvon) [1977]

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 30, 2023

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