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Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818), an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned in a sailing accident in 1822. Scholarly appreciation has increased in recent decades for her novels, including Valperga, Perkin Warbeck, Lodore, Falkner, and the apocalyptic The Last Man, as well as her biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. The influences of her mother, the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, are evident in Shelley's travel narrative Rambles in Germany and Italy. Shelley often argued in favour of cooperation and sympathy as skills for reforming civil society; this view challenged the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by her husband and the Enlightenment ideals of her father, William Godwin. (Full article...)

Alfred Biolek

• ... that in Bio's Bahnhof, a German live music talk show presented by Alfred Biolek (pictured) in a former train depot, Kate Bush made her first television appearance?
• ... that refugee swimmer Abbas Karimi, who competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, has won national championships in Afghanistan, Turkey and the US?
• ... that during the Fall of Herat a United Nations office in Herat was attacked, killing a security guard?
• ... that the world record for the greatest weight supported by a brick bridge was broken on the French version of Lego Masters?
• ... that Mary Cutts was told that her memoir on Dolley Madison needed more emphasis on "important men and masculine subjects"?
• ... that S. Isaac, Campbell & Company, a British firm, was a major supplier of arms to the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
• ... that French king Louis XVI appointed Benjamin Franklin to head the Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism?
• ... that poet Trina de Moya was the first Dominican presidential wife to be called first lady?

Paralympics opening ceremony

• Amid evacuations from Afghanistan, a suicide bombing kills at least 182 people at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
• The Summer Paralympics open (ceremony pictured) in Tokyo, Japan.
• Ismail Sabri Yaakob is appointed as prime minister by the King of Malaysia.
• Hakainde Hichilema is elected President of Zambia.
• A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills more than 2,200 people.

August 30: Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism, 2021); Victory Day in Turkey (1922)

Amalasuintha

• AD 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: The Siege of Jerusalem ended with Roman forces entering and sacking the Lower City, destroying the Second Temple.
• 526 – Upon the death of her father Theodoric the Great, Amalasuintha (pictured) of the Ostrogoths became the regent for her ten-year-old son Athalaric.
• 1914 – World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army by the German 8th Army.
• 1974 – An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.
• 2014 – Prime minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane fled to South Africa, claiming that the army had launched a coup d'état.