About August 30

August 30, 2025 is the 242nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 171 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On August 30

  • 1574 –
    Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
  • 1791 –
    HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
  • 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.
  • 1836 –
    The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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