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August 30

August 30 carries 10 recorded events spanning between 70 and 2021. Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

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What happened on August 30?

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 70 and 2021. Famous people born on August 30 include Félix Sánchez (hurdler), Johanna Braddy and Alexander Lukashenko.

The shape of the day

Few dates reach as far back as August 30: its recorded history runs unusually deep, stretching to 70. Its center of gravity is the 20th century, and conflict is a recurring thread.

Virgo is the sign for August 30 — read more on the Virgo page, or see August's birthstone & birth flower.

Released on August 30

Movies, games, albums & shows

2024

  • Game Star Wars Outlaws
  • Game Dale & Dawson Stationery Supplies
  • Game Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Party Dash

2022

  • Game Immortality
  • Game F1 Manager 2022

2021

  • Game KeyWe
  • Game Clid the Snail

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 70

    AD 70

    Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

  2. 1464

    Pope Paul II

    Paul II succeeds Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church.

  3. 1574

    Guru Ram Das

    Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

  4. 1594

    James VI and I

    King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.

  5. 1914

    World War I

    World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.

  6. 1917

    Vietnam

    Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.

  7. 1967

    Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

  8. 1974

    1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing

    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.

  9. 1981

    Mohammad-Ali Rajai

    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.

  10. 2021

    2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

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

Famous birthday twins

Born on August 30

Félix Sánchez (hurdler)

b. 1977

American-Dominican runner and hurdler

Johanna Braddy

b. 1987

American actress

Alexander Lukashenko

b. 1954

Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus

Ernest Rutherford

b. 1871

New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Jean-Claude Killy

b. 1943

French skier

Cameron Diaz

b. 1972

American model, actress, and producer

Mary Shelley

b. 1797

English novelist and playwright

Warren Buffett

b. 1930

American businessman and philanthropist

Deaths

  • 2010Francisco Varallo
  • 2006Naguib Mahfouz
  • 1981Mohammad-Ali Rajai
  • 1935Henri Barbusse
  • 1483Louis XI
  • 1329Khutughtu Khan Kusala

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Alexander of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodoxy)
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Stephen Nehmé (Maronite Church / Catholic Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Charles Chapman Grafton (Episcopal Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Fantinus
  • —Christian feast day: Felix and Adauctus
  • —Christian feast day: Fiacre

Historical facts, event summaries, and biographical lines above are adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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