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August 30, 1945: a boarding party from USS South Dakota took possession of the battleship Nagato and replaced the Japanese flag with a U.S. ensign. President GHW Bush and New Orlean Saints owner Tom Benson (who served on the South Dakota) posed with the ship's crew at a 2004 reunion.




August 30, 1955: an Australian pilot cranked the propeller of an Auster Autocar J-5G training aircraft but was unable to get in the plane before it rolled down the runway and took off. The pilotless plane flew around Sydney for 3 hours before two Royal Australian Navy Sea Fury pilots shot it down. A jolly good show...





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THE BATTLE OF SYDNEY: Sabres, Meteors, Sea Furies And Two Blokes With A Bren Gun Battle A Runaway

On the morning of the 30th of August, Anthony Thrower of Lavinia Street, Granville was out for a pleasure flight when his Auster Archer decided to make a break for freedom. What followed was a madcap three hour chase involving four jet fighters, two Hawker Sea Furies and two blokes with a Bren Gun.

Given that this incident pre-dated the more famous Battle Of Palmdale by a year, I thought it was interesting to compare how more conventionally armed aircraft fared against a slow, but determined piston-engined intruder. I hope you find it entertaining. I have to admit that as a Brit, I enjoyed poking a little fun at my Australian friends... hopefully they can take it in the spirit it's intended.

It’s International Puma Day. In 1959, celebrated American author John Steinbeck gave the crew of the anti-aircraft frigate HMS Puma a stuffed puma from California after he learned that the ship did not have a mascot. Steinbeck later sent a live puma, but the Royal Navy decided to place the big cat in a zoo rather than allow it to prowl the decks of the ship.




The very first "Google doodle" appeared on google dot com on August 30, 1998 with a simple Burning Man logo behind the second "O." Google founders attended the annual festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada that year.


Larry Page and Sergey Brin spent the last week of August 1998 to go to the Burning Man festival. The resulting little portlogo was intended, Google would later note in its history of the Google Doodle, as "a comical message to Google users that the founders were 'out of office.'" And while that first doodle was "relatively simple," the history notes, "the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was born."


On a still and cloudy afternoon, Leading Stoker Des Jones was laid to rest, carried to his gravesite on the shoulders of sailors from HMAS Canberra (L02). At 102, he was the last surviving member of the first HMAS Canberra (D33), sunk at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942.




Mark Knoller’s frustration over the lack of a central database of daily presidential actions inspired him to take upon himself the enormous burden of keeping meticulous records of every presidential act, movement, and utterance, single-handedly filling an immense void in American history.

As he once put it: "I keep a daily log of everything the president does. I keep a list of speeches. I keep a list of travel – foreign travel, domestic travel. A list of outings. A list of golf. A list of pardons, vetoes, states that he's visited, states that he hasn't visited. Every time he goes on vacation, every visit to Camp David."


Mark Knoller, longtime CBS News correspondent, dies at 73


Houthis vow revenge on Israel for wiping out their entire government. Warns visitors to leave before its too late.


Houthis Say Prime Minister Was Killed in Israeli Attack (NY Times) Yemen’s Houthis vow revenge after Israeli strike kills prime minister and ministers


Baghdad Bob & Jane Jr...aren't they cute...


https://x.com/Osint613/status/1961873717652226150


Estonia Russophobes digging their grave deeper.


At the same time over the next four years, Estonia will increase military spending to 5% of its GDP.

"To cover the needs, we will borrow 3.6 billion euros."
— Kristen Michal, Prime Minister of Estonia


Excerpt of Putin's interview with Xinhua news:

We see that in certain Western states the results of the Second World War are de facto revised, and the verdicts of the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals are openly disregarded. These dangerous tendencies stem from a reluctance to acknowledge the direct culpability of the predecessors of today's Western elites in unleashing the world war, and the desire to erase the shameful pages of their own history, thereby encouraging revanchism and neo-Nazism. Historical truth is being distorted and suppressed to suit their current political agendas. Japanese militarism is being revived under the pretext of imaginary Russian or Chinese threats, while in Europe, including Germany, steps are being taken towards the re-militarisation of the continent, with little regard for historical parallels.

Frequently the target by pro-Russian media, who routinely referred to him as a Nazi, especially after the Maidan massacre in 2014. Once upon a time if the press called you "pro-Western" that implied you at least paid lip service to a checklist of values that allegedly elevated you to the highest moral ground.
The assassin fled on an electric bike.


Pro-Western Ukrainian politician and former parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv