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
700-1899
- 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
1900-1999
- 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
- 1993 - The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
- 1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.
2000-2099
- 2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
Births
1700-1899
- 1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
- 1797 - Mary Shelley, writer (d. 1851)
- 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, physicist (d. 1937)
- 1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
- 1896 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)
- 1898 - Shirley Booth, actress (d. 1992)
1900-1999
- 1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader ( 1981)
- 1906 - Joan Blondell, actress (d. 1979)
- 1908 - Fred MacMurray, actor (d. 1991)
- 1918 - Ted Williams, baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1919 - Kitty Wells, country music singer
- 1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian Labor Party politician and High Court judge.
- 1927 - Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
- 1930 - Warren Buffett, entrepreneur
- 1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, college basketball coach
- 1935 - John Phillips, singer, The Mamas and the Papas. (d. 2001)
- 1939 - John Peel, Radio 1 DJ
- 1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, French alpine skier
- 1943 - R. Crumb, cartoonist
- 1944 - Molly Ivins, political humorist
- 1947 - Peggy Lipton, actress
- 1948 - Lewis Black, stand-up comedian
- 1951 - Timothy Bottoms, actor
- 1951 - Dana (singer), Irish singer, politician, Eurovision Song Contest winner
- 1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress (There's Something About Mary, Any Given Sunday, Shrek)
- 1972 - Pavel Nedved, Czech football star
- 1980 - Aaron Barrett, Reel Big Fish guitarist, singer
- 1982 - Andy Roddick, tennis player
Deaths
100 BCE-1899
- 30 BCE - Cleopatra VII of Egypt
- 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)
1900-1999
- 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
2000-2099
- 2003 - Charles Bronson, actor
- 2003 - Donald Davidson, philosopher
Holidays and observances
August 29 - August 31 - July 30 - September 30 -- listing of all days
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