About August 30
August 30, 2024 is the 243rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 152 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 30
- 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.
- 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.
- 1813 –Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- 1836 –The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
- 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.
- 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 Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
- 1945 –The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1995 –NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
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