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August 30

3 sourced moments from August 30 in history: Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein, Is Born (1797); The Moscow-Washington hotline went into operation (1963); and Azerbaijan declared the restoration of its independence (1991).

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3 things happened on August 30

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1991 Geography · Countries

Azerbaijan declared the restoration of its independence

As the Soviet Union unravelled, Azerbaijan's parliament voted to reclaim the sovereign statehood it had lost to the Red Army in 1920.

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1963 Language & Communication · Media & Communication

The Moscow-Washington hotline went into operation

Born of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the direct link between superpowers opened not with a phone call but with a typed nonsense sentence.

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1797 Culture & Arts · Literature

Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein, Is Born

A London teenager dreamed up a stitched-together creature and, in doing so, helped invent science fiction itself.

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