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.
- 1813 –Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- 1835 –Melbourne, Australia is founded.
- 1836 –The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
- 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.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
- 1922 –Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (“Turkish War of Independence”).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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