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What Happened on August 30th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.
2019	A huge accident during the 2019 F2 Spa Feature Race caused young driver Anthoine Hubert to die after sustaining major injuries.
2014	Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
2008	A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
2002	Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
1998	Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
1995	Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1992	The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
1991	Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1984	STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1983	Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
1981	President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1974	A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974	A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.
1974	The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.
1967	Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1963	The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1962	Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1959	South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.
1945	The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
1945	The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945	The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1942	World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1941	The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
1940	The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1936	The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
1922	Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1918	Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1917	Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
1916	Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
1914	World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
1909	Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1896	Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
1873	Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
1862	American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
1836	The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
1835	Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
1813	First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813	Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1800	Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1799	The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
1791	HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
1757	Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
1727	Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
1721	The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.
1594	King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.
1590	Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1574	Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1464	Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1363	The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
1282	Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
70	Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

Famous People Born on August 30

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Year	Name
1941	Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
1962	Ricky Sanders, American football player
1893	Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935)
1985	Holly Weston, English actress
1917	Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 2015)
1971	Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942	Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement
1939	Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1986	Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943	Jean-Claude Killy, French skier

Famous People Deaths On August 30

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Date	Name
1967	Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1913)
1947	Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
2007	Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (b. 1942)
1970	Del Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1916)
1940	J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1604	John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop (b. 1545)
526	Theodoric the Great, Italian ruler (b. 454)
1751	Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661)
1963	Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1981	Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)