August 30
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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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Events
- 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
- 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
- 1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence
- 1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum
Births
- 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer († 1851)
- 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, physicist († 1937)
- 1893 - Huey Long, American politician († 1935)
- 1896 - Raymond Massey, actor († 1983)
- 1898 - Shirley Booth, actress († 1992)
- 1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader ( 1981)
- 1906 - Joan Blondell, actress († 1979)
- 1908 - Fred MacMurray, actor († 1991)
- 1918 - Ted Williams, baseball player († 2002)
- 1919 - Kitty Wells, country music singer
- 1930 - Warren Buffett, entrepreneur
- 1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, college basketball coach
- 1935 - John Phillips, singer, The Mamas and the Papas. († 2001)
- 1939 - John Peel, Radio 1 DJ
- 1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, skier
- 1943 - R. Crumb, cartoonist
- 1944 - Molly Ivins, political humorist
- 1947 - Peggy Lipton, actress
- 1951 - Timothy Bottoms, actor
- 1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress
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
Holidays and observances
August 29 - August 31 - July 30 - September 30 -- listing of all days
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "August 30" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_30 August 30, 2003
