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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1909 –Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1956 –The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
- 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.
- 1984 –STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
- 1995 –NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
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