August 30
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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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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.
Deaths
- 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
- 1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, ss.cc., Roman Catholic priest
- 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
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/30)
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