August 30
is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining.
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1574 -
Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
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1590 -
Tokugawa Ieyasu enters
Edo Castle. (Traditional
Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
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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.
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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.
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1850 -
Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city
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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.
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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.
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1922 -
Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in
Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("
Turkish War of Independence")
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1941 -
Siege of Leningrad begins.
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1942 -
World War II:
Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
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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.
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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.
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1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.
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1965 -
Rock musician
Bob Dylan releases his influential album
Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
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1967 -
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first
African American Justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
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1974 - A
Belgrade-
Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in
Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
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1984 -
STS-41-D: The
Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
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1990 -
Tatarstan declares independence from the
RSFSR.
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1991 -
Azerbaijan declares independence from the
USSR.
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1993 - The first episode of the
Late Show with David Letterman airs on
CBS, following Letterman's move from
NBC.
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1999 -
East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
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2005 - The
17th Street Canal in New Orleans is breached during
Hurricane Katrina, leading to massive flooding and destruction.
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1334 - King
Peter I of Castile (d.
1369)
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1377 -
Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d.
1447)
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1705 -
David Hartley, English philosopher (d.
1757)
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1720 -
Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician (d.
1796)
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1748 -
Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d.
1825)
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1797 -
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d.
1851)
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1839 -
Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d.
1903)
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1848 -
Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d.
1905)
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1852 -
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1911)
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1856 -
Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d.
1927)
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1860 -
Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d.
1900)
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1871 -
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
1937)
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1884 -
Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1971)
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1893 -
Huey Long, American politician (d.
1935)
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1896 -
Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d.
1983)
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1898 -
Shirley Booth, American actress (d.
1992)
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1901 -
Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (
1981)
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1906 -
Joan Blondell, American actress (d.
1979)
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1908 -
Fred MacMurray, American actor (d.
1991)
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1912 -
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1997)
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1913 -
Richard Stone, British economist,
Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d.
1991)
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1918 -
Ted Williams, baseball player (d.
2002)
* 1918 -
Billy Johnson, baseball player (d.
2006)
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1919 -
Kitty Wells, American singer
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1922 -
Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge
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1925 -
Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
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1927 -
Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer
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1930 -
Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
* 1930 -
Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
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1935 -
John Phillips, American singer (The
Mamas and the Papas) (d.
2001)
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1939 -
John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d.
2004)
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1941 -
Ben Jones, American actor and politician
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1943 -
R. Crumb, American cartoonist
* 1943 -
Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
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1944 -
Molly Ivins, American political humorist
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1947 -
Peggy Lipton, American actress
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1948 -
Lewis Black, American comedian
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1949 -
Peter Maffay, German rock musician
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1951 -
Timothy Bottoms, American actor
* 1951 -
Dana, Irish singer and politician
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1954 -
Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
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1959 -
Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian footballer and actor
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1963 -
Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
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1971 -
Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (
Rancid/
UK Subs)
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1972 -
Cameron Diaz, American actress
* 1972 -
Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
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1974 -
Aaron Barrett, American guitarist and singer (
Reel Big Fish)
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1975 -
Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
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1976 -
Mike Koplove, Professional baseball player
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1977 -
Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
* 1977 -
Marlon Byrd, Baseball player
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1982 -
Andy Roddick, American tennis player
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1983 -
Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
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1984 -
Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
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1158 - King
Sancho III of Castile (b.
1134)
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1428 -
Emperor Shoko of Japan (b.
1401)
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1483 - King
Louis XI of France (b.
1423)
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1580 -
Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b.
1528)
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1617 -
Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b.
1586)
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1619 -
Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b.
1535)
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1751 -
Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b.
1661)
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1856 -
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b.
1811)
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1879 -
John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b.
1831)
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1896 -
Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b.
1824)
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1907 -
Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b.
1857)
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1928 -
Wilhelm Wien, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1864)
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1935 -
Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b.
1873)
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1938 -
Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b.
1877)
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1940 -
J.J. Thomson, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1856)
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1941 -
Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b.
1874)
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1943 -
Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b.
1890)
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1946 -
Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b.
1907)
* 1946 -
Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b.
1890)
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1949 -
Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b.
1877)
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1961 -
Charles Coburn, American actor (b.
1877)
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1963 -
Guy Burgess, English born Soviet spy (b.
1911)
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1981 -
Vera-Ellen, American actress (b.
1921)
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1985 -
Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b.
1900)
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1991 -
Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b.
1925)
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1994 -
Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b.
1923)
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1995 -
Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (
The Velvet Underground) (b.
1942)
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1999 -
Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist, creator of
Les Pionniers de l'Espérance (b.
1910)
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2003 -
Charles Bronson, American actor (b.
1921)
* 2003 -
Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b.
1917)
*
2004 -
Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b.
1906).
* 2004 -
Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b.
1949).
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Peru -
Saint Rose of Lima's Day
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Turkey -
Victory Day (to commemorate the
Battle of Dumlupinar in
1922)
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International Day of the Disappeared*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This Day*
On This Day in CanadaAugust 29 -
August 31 -
July 30 -
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