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
- 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.
- 1800 –Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
- 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
- 1873 –Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
- 1897 –The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
- 1909 –Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- 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.
- 1945 –The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
- 1956 –The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
- 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 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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