Historical Events on August 30, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on August 30th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 1945 | The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyỿn dynasty. |
| 1942 | World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins. |
| 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 Trỿnh VĿn 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. |
| 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. |
| 1727 | Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal. |
| 1594 | The christening of Prince Henry of Scotland is celebrated with the 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
Here is a random list who born on August 30. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1927 | Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer (d.2018) |
| 1962 | Craig Whittaker, English businessman and politician |
| 1912 | Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |
| 1943 | Colin Dann, English author |
| 1991 | Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer |
| 1951 | Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor |
| 1973 | Lisa Ling, American journalist and author |
| 1977 | Shaun Alexander, American football player |
| 1986 | Theo Hutchcraft, English singer-songwriter |
| 1860 | Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900) |
Famous People Deaths On August 30
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 30. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1619 | Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535) |
| 1483 | Louis XI of France (b. 1423) |
| 1995 | Fischer Black, American economist and academic (b. 1938) |
| 832 | Cui Qun, Chinese chancellor (b. 772) |
| 2003 | Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (b. 1917) |
| 1428 | Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401) |
| 2013 | William C. Campbell, American golfer (b. 1923) |
| 2002 | J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914) |
| 2015 | Wes Craven, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1939) |
| 1946 | Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (b. 1907) |
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