August 30 in history
Events on August 30
Notable events that happened on August 30 in past years.
- 2023
Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousts him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.
Wikipedia article: 2023 Gabonese coup d'état - 2002
Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
Wikipedia article: Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 - 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
Wikipedia article: Dissolution of the Soviet Union - 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 article: Mohammad-Ali Rajai - 1967
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Wikipedia article: Thurgood Marshall - 1945
The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
Wikipedia article: Japanese occupation of Hong Kong - 1941
The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
Wikipedia article: Tighina Agreement - 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 article: Fanny Kaplan - 1909
Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Wikipedia article: Burgess Shale - 1836
The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
Wikipedia article: Houston - 1808
The convention of Cintra allows the defeated French troops to be transported out of Iberia on British ships, including their loot.
Wikipedia article: Convention of Cintra - 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 article: Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf - 1590
Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
Wikipedia article: Tokugawa Ieyasu - 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.
- 70
Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.
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