Today in History in 1836 the city of Houston, Texas is founded; in 1850 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city; and in 1967 Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

526 – Ostrogoth King Theodoric the Great dies of dysentery in Ravenna.

711 – K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.

1464 – Pope Paul II is elected.

1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

1791 – The ship HMS Pandora sinks after running aground on a reef.

1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested he can make it happen.

1813 – In an uprising, Creek Native Americans launch an attack on Fort Mims, Alabama (present-day Mobile, Alabama), and commit the Fort Mims massacre.

1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

1832 – Agreement is reached on the border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

1835 – The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.

1836 – The city of Houston, Texas is founded.

1850 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city.

1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.

1862 – American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run.

1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago (island group) of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Ocean. The islands now belong to Russia.

1881 – British passenger steamer RMS Teuton hits a reef off South Africa and sinks, killing 236 of the 272 people on board.

1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared to be under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramon Blanco y Erenas.

1914 – World War I: Battle of Tannenberg.

1917 – During a night-time sailing, with all light switched off because of the war, French passenger steamer Natal collides with an oncoming cargo ship, sinking in 10 minutes. Of the 503 on board, 105 are killed.

1918 – Assassins seriously injure Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky, prompting the decree for Red Terror.

1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").

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

1941 – World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins.

1945 – World War II: Hong Kong is liberated from Japan.

1945 – World War II: Allied Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, until 1949, goes into effect.

1946 – In post-World War II Germany, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate is created in the French occupation zone.

1948 – The Romanian intelligence agency, the Securitate, is founded.

1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana opens.

1959 – The title National Hero of Indonesia is awarded for the first time, to writer and politician Abdul Muis.

1963 – Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.

1965 – Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball.

1965 – Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."

1967 – Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1974 – A train crash, of a Dortmund to Belgrade Express train, in Zagreb kills 153 people.

1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Jeavy Industries Headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan killing 8 people.

1976 – Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.

1981 – Iranian President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar are assassinated in a bombing by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

1984 – Space Shuttle Discovery launches on its first mission.

1990 – Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.

1991 – Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.

1992 – Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.

1993 – The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, is inaugurated.

1993 – The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.

1994 – Oasis release their first album, Definitely Maybe.

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

1999 – The East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.

2001 – Former President of Yugoslavia and Serbia Slobodan Milosevic is charged with Genocide.

2002 – The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.

2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, killing all 9 crew members.

2009 – Yukio Hatoyama is elected Prime Minister of Japan, taking office on September 16, when he succeeds Taro Aso. He resigns on June 2, 2010.

2014 – Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk is chosen as the new EU President, while Federica Mogherini of Italy is chosen as the next EU Foreign Policy Chief.

2016 – Doris McLemore, the last-surviving fluent speaker of the Wichita language, dies aged 89.