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August 30

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
• 1813 - Battle of Kulm - French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
• 1862 - Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright
• 1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
• 1863 - Union forces defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run
• 1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation
• 1914 - Battle of Tannenberg
• 1918 - Assassins seriously injure Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky, prompting the decree for Red Terror
• 1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")
• 1941 - Siege of Leningrad begins
• 1945 - Hong Kong is liberated
• 1967 - Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African-American Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• 1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR
• 1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR
• 1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum
• 2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.

Births

• 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer (d. 1851)
• 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, physicist (d. 1937)
• 1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
• 1896 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)
• 1898 - Shirley Booth, actress (d. 1992)
• 1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader ( 1981)
• 1906 - Joan Blondell, actress (d. 1979)
• 1908 - Fred MacMurray, actor (d. 1991)
• 1918 - Ted Williams, baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1919 - Kitty Wells, country music singer
• 1927 - Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
• 1930 - Warren Buffett, entrepreneur
• 1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, college basketball coach
• 1935 - John Phillips, singer, The Mamas and the Papas. (d. 2001)
• 1939 - John Peel, Radio 1 DJ
• 1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, French alpine skier
• 1943 - R. Crumb, cartoonist
• 1944 - Molly Ivins, political humorist
• 1947 - Peggy Lipton, actress
• 1948 - Lewis Black, stand-up comedian
• 1951 - Timothy Bottoms, actor
• 1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress (There's Something About Mary, Any Given Sunday, Shrek)
• 1972 - Pavel Nedved, Czech football star
• 1980 - Aaron Barrett, Reel Big Fish guitarist, singer
• 1982 - Andy Roddick, tennis player

Deaths

• 30 BC - Cleopatra VII of Egypt
• 1856 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer
• 1928 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist
• 1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
• 1961 - Charles Coburn, actor
• 1981 - Vera-Ellen, actress
• 1985 - Taylor Caldwell, author
• 1991 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist
• 1994 - Lindsay Anderson, film director
• 2003 - Charles Bronson, actor

Holidays and observances

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