# What happened on August 30 in history?

**Date:** August 30  
**Events recorded:** 56  
**Years spanned:** 70 – 2023  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/august/30/

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## Featured Event

**2021** — The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_U.S._troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan)

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## Events on this date

- **70** — Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_70))
- **1057** — Elderly Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas abdicates after just one year on the throne. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Byzantine_emperors))
- **1060** — The Mirdasids defeat the Fatimid Caliphate at the Battle of al-Funaydiq, signalling the definitive loss of Aleppo for the Fatimids. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirdasid_dynasty))
- **1282** — Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_III_of_Aragon))
- **1363** — The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Poyang))
- **1464** — Paul II succeeds Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_II))
- **1535** — With the papal bull Eius qui immobilis, Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England from the Catholic Church for approving the Acts of Supremacy, although the bull is likely never published. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_bull))
- **1574** — Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Ram_Das))
- **1590** — Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieyasu))
- **1594** — King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I))
- **1721** — The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War))
- **1727** — Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%2C_Princess_Royal_and_Princess_of_Orange))
- **1757** — Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gross-J%C3%A4gersdorf))
- **1791** — HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pandora_(1779)))
- **1799** — The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlieter_incident))
- **1800** — Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel's_Rebellion))
- **1813** — First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kulm))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creek_War))
- **1835** — Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne))
- **1836** — The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston))
- **1862** — American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1873** — Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_von_Payer))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Revolution))
- **1909** — Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Shale))
- **1914** — World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1916** — Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton))
- **1917** — Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam))
- **1918** — Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Kaplan))
- **1922** — Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dumlup%C4%B1nar))
- **1936** — The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary))
- **1940** — The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vienna_Award))
- **1941** — The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tighina_Agreement))
- **1942** — World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alam_el_Halfa))
- **1945** — The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong))
- **1945** — The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-chief))
- **1945** — The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Control_Council))
- **1959** — South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Quang_%C4%90%C3%A1n))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMC_YS-11))
- **1963** — The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow%E2%80%93Washington_hotline))
- **1967** — Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall))
- **1974** — A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade))
- **1974** — A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries_bombing))
- **1974** — The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Population_Conference))
- **1981** — President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing. The office of Iran's Prosecutor General blames the People's Mujahedin of Iran. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad-Ali_Rajai))
- **1983** — Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_5463))
- **1983** — STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-8))
- **1984** — STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-D))
- **1991** — Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union))
- **1992** — The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge_standoff))
- **1995** — Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War))
- **1998** — Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War))
- **2002** — Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Linhas_A%C3%A9reas_Flight_4823))
- **2008** — A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviasa))
- **2014** — Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thabane))
- **2021** — The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_U.S._troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan))
- **2023** — Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Gabonese_coup_d'%C3%A9tat))

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## Notable births on August 30

- **2002** — **Fábio Carvalho** — Portuguese footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1bio_Carvalho_(footballer%2C_born_2002)))
- **2002** — **Drake Maye** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Maye))
- **1996** — **Mikal Bridges** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikal_Bridges))
- **1996** — **Trevor Jackson** — American actor and singer-songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Jackson_(performer)))
- **1994** — **Monika Povilaitytė** — Lithuanian volleyball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_Paulikien%C4%97))
- **1994** — **Heo Young-ji** — South Korean singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hur_Young-ji))
- **1994** — **Kwon So-hyun** — South Korean singer-songwriter and actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon_So-hyun))
- **1992** — **Jessica Henwick** — British actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Henwick))
- **1991** — **Seriki Audu** — Nigerian footballer (died 2014) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seriki_Audu))
- **1991** — **Jacqueline Cako** — American tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Cako))

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## Notable deaths on August 30

- **2024** — **Tūheitia Paki** — Māori King (born 1955) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%ABheitia))
- **2024** — **Fatman Scoop** — American rapper, hype man and radio personality (born 1971) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatman_Scoop))
- **2022** — **Mikhail Gorbachev** — 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union (born 1931) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev))
- **2019** — **Valerie Harper** — American actress and writer (born 1939) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Harper))
- **2017** — **Louise Hay** — American motivational author (born 1926) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hay))
- **2017** — **Skip Prokop** — Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist (born 1943) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Prokop))
- **2015** — **Wes Craven** — American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (born 1939) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Craven))
- **2015** — **Edward Fadeley** — American lawyer and politician (born 1929) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fadeley))
- **2015** — **M. M. Kalburgi** — Indian scholar, author, and academic (born 1938) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._M._Kalburgi))
- **2015** — **Marvin Mandel** — American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (born 1920) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Mandel))

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