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On This Day: August 30
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Every entry on this date through all eight years of the Reagan administration.
Diary Entry - 08/30/1983
Key Facts
President Reagan spends the day at Rancho del Cielo.
Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., aboard flight STS-8 of the space shuttle Challenger becomes the first African American in space.
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Off to Calif. by way of Tampa, El Paso, La Paz Mexico, New Orleans. Made it all the way then back to Wash.—3 days early.
