August 30

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining.

Events

• 711 – K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.
• 1574 – Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
• 1813 – Battle of Kulm – French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
• 1850 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
• 1862 – Battle of Richmond, Kentucky – Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright
• 1862 – Union forces defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run
• 1914 – Battle of Tannenberg
• 1918 – Assassins seriously injure Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky, prompting 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
• 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan
• 1963 – Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation
• 1965 – Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball
• 1965 – Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influencial album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
• 1967 – Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1976 – Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
• 1990 – Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR
• 1991 – Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR
• 1992 – Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
• 1993 – The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
• 1999 – East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
• 2002 – The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.

Births

• 1334 – King Peter I of Castile (d. 1369)
• 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
• 1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
• 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
• 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1937)
• 1893 – Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
• 1896 – Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Shirley Booth, actress (d. 1992)
• 1901 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (1981)
• 1906 – Joan Blondell, actress (d. 1979)
• 1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Ted Williams, baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Kitty Wells, country music singer
• 1922 – Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge
• 1927 – Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
• 1930 – Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
• 1930  – Jerry Tarkanian, basketball coach
• 1935 – John Phillips, singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
• 1939 – John Peel, radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
• 1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
• 1943  – R. Crumb, cartoonist
• 1944 – Molly Ivins, political humorist
• 1947 – Peggy Lipton, actress
• 1948 – Lewis Black, comedian
• 1951 – Timothy Bottoms, actor
• 1951 – Dana (singer), Irish singer and politician
• 1959 – Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian footballer and actor
• 1963 – Paul Oakenfold, disc jockey
• 1972 – Cameron Diaz, actress
• 1972  – Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
• 1980 – Aaron Barrett, guitarist and singer (Reel Big Fish)
• 1982 – Andy Roddick, tennis player

Deaths

• 30 BC – Cleopatra VII of Egypt
• AD 1158 – King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
• 1483 – King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
• 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
• 1856 – Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer (b. 1811)
• 1879 – John Bell Hood, Confederate general (b. 1831)
• 1907 – Richard Mansfield, actor-manager, (b. 1857)
• 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, physicist (b. 1864)
• 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
• 1961 – Charles Coburn, actor
• 1981 – Vera-Ellen, actress
• 1985 – Taylor Caldwell, author
• 1991 – Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist
• 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, film director
• 2003 – Charles Bronson, actor
• 2003 – Donald Davidson, philosopher

Holidays and observances

• Victory Day in Turkey (1922)

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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