Today in History: August 30, Shackelton’s Endurance crew rescued

Nowadays is Saturday Aug the nd day of There are days left in the year In the current era in history On Aug on his fourth attempt explorer Ernest Shackelton successfully returned to Elephant Island in Antarctica to rescue of his stranded crew members who had survived on the barren island for four and a half months after the sinking of their ship the Endurance Also on this date In during World War II German forces approaching Leningrad cut off the remaining rail line out of the city Related Articles Tesla asks court to throw out big damage award in crash by arguing comments about Musk misled jury Appeals court finds Trump s tariffs illegally used exigency power but leaves them in place for now With California s congressional maps up in air campaigns aren t changing strategies yet US offers military funeral honors to Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt Perimeter Patrol arrests firefighters for being in the country illegally as they battled Washington s biggest wildfire In U S Gen Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan to set up Allied occupation headquarters In the Hot Line communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation In the Senate established the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first Black justice on the U S Supreme Court In a day after Hurricane Katrina hit floods covered percent of New Orleans looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people In the United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan ending America s longest war with the Taliban back in power as Air Force shipping planes carried a remaining contingent of troops from Kabul airport After watching the last U S planes disappear into the sky over Afghanistan Taliban fighters fired their guns into the air celebrating mastery after a -year insurgency In Mikhail Gorbachev who was the last leader of the Soviet Union and waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War died at age In the current era s Birthdays Investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet is Actor Elizabeth Ashley is Actor John Kani is Cartoonist Robert Crumb is Olympic gold medal skier Jean-Claude Killy is Comedian Lewis Black is Basketball Hall of Famer Robert Parish is U S Senator Thom Tillis R-N C is Actor Michael Chiklis is Actor Cameron Diaz is TV personality journalist Lisa Ling is Former MLB pitcher Adam Wainwright is Former professional tennis contestant Andy Roddick is Singer-songwriter Bebe Rexha is