August
30
Events
1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake
Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders
— Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted
against each other in what is one of the largest
naval battles in history, during the last decade
of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh
Guru/Master.
1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional
Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground
on a reef the previous day.
1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured 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 postpones a planned slave
rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested
before he can make it happen.
1813 – Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated
by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813 – Creek War – Fort Mims massacre: Creek
"Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers
(including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims,
north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus
Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 – American Civil War – Battle of Richmond:
Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union
forces under General Horatio Wright.
1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and
Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz
Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish
victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte,
eight provinces in the Philippines are declared
under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General
Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France
from Menabe in Madagascar.
1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered
by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians
in the Battle of Tannenberg
1918 – Fanny Kaplan 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: the final battle
in the Greek-Turkish War ("Turkish War
of Independence").
1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the
territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania
to Hungary.
1942 – World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa
begins.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by
British Armed Forces.
1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces,
General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air
Force Base.
1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing
Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1956 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11,
its first aircraft since World War II and its
only successful commercial aircraft from before
or after the war.
1963 – The Hotline between the leaders of the
U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the
first African American Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States.
1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails
at the main train station in Zagreb killing
153 passengers.
1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi,
Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured.
Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May
19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime
Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are
assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's
Mujahedin of Iran.
1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery
takes off on its maiden voyage.
1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force
against Bosnian Serb forces.
1999 – East Timor voted for independence from
Indonesia in a referendum.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Alexander of Constantinople
Fantinus
Felix and Adauctus
Pammachius
August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day of the Disappeared (International)
Saint Rose of Lima's Day (Peru)
Victory Day (Turkey)
Republic Day (Tatarstan)
International Day of the Victims of Enforced
Disappearances
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