August 30

is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining.

Events

1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1799 - Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city
1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Richmond, Kentucky: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright
1862 - American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run
1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg
1918 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")
1941 - Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Forces.
1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
1965 - Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
1967 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1974 - A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.
1993 - The first episode of the Late Show with David Letterman airs on CBS, following Letterman's move from NBC.
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
2005 - The 17th Street Canal in New Orleans is breached during Hurricane Katrina, leading to massive flooding and destruction.

Births

1334 - King Peter I of Castile (d. 1369)
1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1705 - David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (d. 1796)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
1839 - Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
1848 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1937)
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
1898 - Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (1981)
1906 - Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)
1908 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1913 - Richard Stone, British economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
1918 - Ted Williams, baseball player (d. 2002)
1919 - Kitty Wells, American singer
1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
1927 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer
1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
1935 - John Phillips, American singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
1939 - John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1941 - Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1943 - R. Crumb, American cartoonist
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1944 - Molly Ivins, American political humorist
1947 - Peggy Lipton, American actress
1948 - Lewis Black, American comedian
1949 - Peter Maffay, German rock musician
1951 - Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1951 - Dana, Irish singer and politician
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian footballer and actor
1963 - Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid/UK Subs)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress
1972 - Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
1974 - Aaron Barrett, American guitarist and singer (Reel Big Fish)
1975 - Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
1976 - Mike Koplove, Professional baseball player
1977 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977 - Marlon Byrd, Baseball player
1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1984 - Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer

Deaths

1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
1428 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (b. 1401)
1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
1963 - Guy Burgess, English born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist, creator of Les Pionniers de l'Espérance (b. 1910)
2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906), Indian Larry, Legendary American Motorcycle Builder and Stuntman (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

Peru - Saint Rose of Lima's Day
Turkey - Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922)
International Day of the Disappeared

External links

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