August 30
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August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1334 – King Peter I of Castile (d. 1369)
- 1377 – Shah Rukh, ruler Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
- 1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
- 1727 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1804)
- 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
- 1785 – Lin Zexu, Chinese scholar and official (d. 1850)
- 1797 – Mary Shelley, British author of Frankenstein (d. 1851)
- 1800 – Auguste von Harrach, wife of Frederick William III of Prussia (d. 1873)
- 1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
- 1813 – Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1892)
- 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
- 1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian-born Italian revolutionary (d. 1849)
- 1844 – Friedrich Ratzel, German zoologist and geographer (d. 1904)
- 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van t' Hoff, Dutch chemist (d. 1911)
- 1855 – Evelyn De Morgan, British painter (d. 1919)
- 1860 – Isaac Lewitan, Russian painter (d. 1900)
- 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand chemist and physicist (d. 1937)
- 1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish physicist (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 activist (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
- 1912 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born Australian spy in World War II, known as the "White Mouse" (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (d. 1997)
- 1913 – Richard Stone, British economist (d. 1991)
- 1917 – Denis Healey, British politician
- 1917 – Vladimir Kirillovich, pretender to the Russian throne (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival organiser (d. 2010)
- 1921 – Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (d. 2012)
- 1922 – Regina Resnik, American mezzo soprano
- 1927 – Bill Daily, American actor
- 1930 – Warren Buffett, American businessman
- 1930 – Mauro Ramos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002)
- 1931 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
- 1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (Mamas and Papas) (d. 2001)
- 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1970)
- 1939 – John Peel, British DJ (d. 2004)
- 1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
- 1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
- 1943 – Robert Crumb, American cartoonist.
- 1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1946 – Anne-Marie, former Queen of Greece
- 1947 – Peggy Lipton, American actress
- 1949 – Peter Maffay, German singer
- 1950 – Antony Gormley, British sculptor
- 1951 – Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician.
- 1951 – Dana, Irish singer and politician
- 1953 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
- 1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
- 1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist, Human Rights activist and author (d. 2006)
- 1962 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born British citizen and ex-KGB agent (d. 2006)
- 1963 – Mark Strong, British actor
- 1968 – Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1970 – Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer
- 1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress
- 1972 – Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
- 1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
- 1974 – Javier Otxoa, Basque cyclist
- 1975 – Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
- 1977 – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
- 1978 – Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
- 1978 – Cliff Lee, American baseball player
- 1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
- 1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
- 1983 – Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
- 1986 – Ryan Ross, American guitarist (Panic! at the Disco)
- 1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
Deaths [change]
- 526 – Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy (b. 454)
- 1158 – King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
- 1329 – Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, of the Yuan Dynasty and Mongol Empire
- 1428 – Emperor Shoko of Japan (b. 1401)
- 1483 – King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
- 1505 – Elizabeth of Austria (b. 1536)
- 1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
- 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
- 1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
- 1856 – Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer (b. 1811)
- 1879 – John Bell Hood, Confederate general (b. 1831)
- 1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
- 1907 – Richard Mansfield, actor-manager, (b. 1857)
- 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (b. 1864)
- 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
- 1940 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist (b. 1856)
- 1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
- 1943 – Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, ss.cc., Dutch Roman Catholic priest (b. 1890)
- 1961 – Charles Coburn, actor (b. 1877)
- 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
- 1981 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
- 1981 – Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Iranian statesman
- 1981 – Vera-Ellen, actress (b. 1921)
- 1985 – Taylor Caldwell, American author (b. 1900)
- 1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss kinetic artist (b. 1925)
- 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, film director (b. 1923)
- 1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
- 1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress (b. 1953)
- 1997 – Ernst Willimowski, Polish footballer (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Govan Mbeki, South African political activist (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Fred Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
- 2005 – Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (b. 1890)
- 2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (b. 1916)
- 2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer (b. 1911)
- 2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)
- 2010 – J. C. Bailey, American professional wrestler (b. 1983)
- 2010 – Alain Corneau, French moviemaker (b. 1943)
- 2010 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
- 2012 – Chris Lighty, American music industry executive (b. 1968)
Events [change]
- 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 becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
- 1791 – The ship HMS Pandora sinks after running aground on a reef.
- 1813 – In an uprising, Creek Native Americans launch an attack on Fort Mims, Alabama (present-day Mobile, Alabama), and commit the Fort Mims massacre.
- 1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- 1835 – The city of Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1836 – The city of Houston, Texas is founded.
- 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 (island group) of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Ocean. The islands now belong to Russia.
- 1881 – British passenger steamer RMS Teuton hits a reef off South Africa and sinks, killing 236 of the 272 people on board.
- 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared to be under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramon Blanco y Erenas.
- 1914 – World War I: Battle of Tannenberg.
- 1917 – During a night-time sailing, with all light switched off because of the war, French passenger steamer Natal collides with an oncoming freight ship, sinking in 10 minutes. Of the 503 on board, 105 are killed.
- 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").
- 1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of North Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
- 1941 – World War II: The Siege of Leningrad begins.
- 1945 – World War II: Hong Kong is liberated from Japan.
- 1945 – World War II: Allied Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
- 1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, until 1949, goes into effect.
- 1948 – The Romanian intelligence agency, the Securitate, is founded.
- 1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana opens.
- 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 influential 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.
- 1974 – A train crash, of a Dortmund to Belgrade Express train, in Zagreb kills 153 people.
- 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Jeavy Industries Headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan kills 8 people.
- 1976 – Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
- 1981 – Iranian President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar are assassinated in a bombing by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
- 1984 – The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on its first mission.
- 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 Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco, is inaugurated.
- 1993 – The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
- 1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian-Serb forces.
- 1999 – The East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
- 2001 – Former President of Yugoslavia and Serbia Slobodan Milosevic is charges with Genocide.
- 2002 – The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
- 2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, killing all 9 crew members.
- 2009 – Yukio Hatoyama is elected Prime Minister of Japan, taking office on September 16, when he succeeds Taro Aso. He resigns on June 2, 2010.
