August 30 in History

Historical Events on August 30

526

King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
1282

Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
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.
1464

Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1574

Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1590

Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1727

Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
1791

HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier 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 War of the Second Coalition.
1800

Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813

First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
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.
1835

Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
1862

American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
1873

Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef 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.
1909

Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914

World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
1917

Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
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.
1922

Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
1940

The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1942

World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1945

The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945

The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1945

The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
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 Moscow-Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. 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. Eight 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.
1991

Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1992

The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
1995

Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
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.
2014

Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.

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