August 30th

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The August 30 is the 242nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 243rd in leap years ), thus remain 123 days by year end.

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events

Politics and world events

1282: Peter's fleet lands at Trapani
1832: Kingdom of Greece (dark blue)
1862: Ruins of Manassas after the Battle of Bull Run
1918: Fanny Kaplan
1945: Berlin seat of the Allied Control Council
1995: US Air Force F-16 during Deliberate Force

business

science and technology

1873: Franz-Joseph-Land

Culture

religion

Disasters

  • 1881: The British passenger steamer RMS Teuton rams a reef at Danger Point on the coast of the South African Cape Colony and sinks while attempting to reach the port city of Simon's Town . Of the 272 passengers and crew, only 36 survive.
  • 1917: Because it is darkened due to the state of war, the French passenger steamer Natal collides with an oncoming cargo ship near Marseille and sinks within ten minutes. 105 of 503 passengers and crew members are killed.
  • 1965: A glacier crash of the Allalin glacier buries 88 workers employed in the construction of the Mattmarksee dam under ice masses.
  • 1974: In Zagreb, a train derails in a curve due to excessive speed. 153 people died in the railway disaster .
  • 1979: A major fire breaks out in the Oesterreichische Nationalbank in Vienna, which severely destroys its main building.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

  • Peter I (* 1334)

18th century

  • Jacob Johann von Sievers (* 1731)

  • Jacques Louis David (* 1748)

  • Lin Zexu (* 1785)

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (* 1797)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Théophile Gautier (* 1811)

  • Gustave Le Gray (* 1820)

  • Gisela von Arnim (* 1827)

  • Friedrich Ratzel (* 1844)

1851-1875

  • Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (* 1852)

  • Evelyn de Morgan (* 1855)

  • Isaak Ilyich Levitan (* 1860)

  • Emilie Flöge (* 1874)

1876-1900

  • Theo van Doesburg (* 1883)

  • The Svedberg (* 1884)

  • Adam Kuckhoff (* 1887)

  • Henry Tandey (* 1891)

  • 1888: Walther Penck , German geomorphologist
  • 1889: Mile Budak , Croatian writer and publicist, fascist politician, diplomat, perpetrator of the Holocaust
  • 1889: Bodil Ipsen , Danish actress and director
  • 1890: Leo Cherniavsky , Canadian violinist of Ukrainian origin
  • 1890: Wilhelm Königswarter , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
  • 1891: Helene Holzman , German painter
  • 1891: Henry Tandey , English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross and most highly decorated British private of the First World War
  • 1893: Julius Bender , German Protestant theologian and regional bishop of the Protestant regional church in Baden
  • 1893: Huey Long , American governor and senator for Louisiana
  • 1894: Max Hodann , German doctor, sex reformer and eugenicist
  • 1894: Charles Reznikoff , American poet
  • 1895: Eduard Arnold , Swiss politician and federal judge
  • 1896: Raymond Massey , Canadian-American actor
  • 1896: Willy Reichert , German comedian and actor
  • 1896: Fritz Walter , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
  • 1898: Shirley Booth , American actress
  • 1899: Ray Arcel , American boxing coach

20th century

1901-1925

  • Charles E. Bohlen (* 1904)

  • Hans Georg Rupp (* 1907)

  • Wolfgang Wagner (* 1919)

  • Robert Zimmerling (* 1924)

1926-1950

  • Rudi Gutendorf (* 1926)

  • Warren Buffett (born 1930)

  • Jack Swigert (* 1931)

  • Bruce McLaren (born 1937)

  • Robert Crumb (* 1943)

  • Jacques Tardi (born 1946)

  • Dragoslav Stepanović (* 1948)

  • Peter Maffay (* 1949)

1951-1975

  • Aljaksandr Lukashenka (* 1954)

  • Helge Schneider (* 1955)

  • Anna Politkovskaya (* 1958)

  • Sabine Oberhauser (* 1963)

  • Kai Ebel (* 1964)

  • Isabel Ashdown (* 1970)

  • Cameron Diaz (born 1972)

  • Claudia Bokel (* 1973)

1976-2000

  • Leisel Jones (* 1985)

  • Tianna Bartoletta (* 1986)

  • Amelia Andersdotter (* 1987)

  • Bebe Rexha (* 1989)

21st century

Died

Before the 16th century

  • Tomb of Theodoric the Great († 526)

  • Fiacrius († 670)

  • Qutugku Khan († 1329)

  • King Louis XI. († 1483)

16th to 18th century

  • Elisabeth von Habsburg († 1505)

  • Wolfgang Musculus († 1563)

  • Anna, Electress of Brandenburg († 1625)

  • Benedikt Carpzov the Younger († 1666)

19th century

  • Domingo Badía y Leblich alias Ali Bey († 1818)

  • John Ross († 1856)

  • John Bell Hood († 1879)

  • Francesco Lacedelli († 1886)

20th century

1901-1950

  • Franz von Stuck († 1928)

  • Wilhelm Vienna († 1928)

  • Henri Barbusse († 1935)

  • Adele Sandrock († 1937)

  • Joseph John Thomson († 1940)

  • Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel († 1944)

  • Grigory Michailowitsch Semjonow († 1946)

  • Alice Salomon († 1948)

1951-1975

  • Otto Suhr († 1957)

  • Maria Zelenka († 1975)

1976-2000

  • Mohammad Ali Radschai († 1981)

  • Mohammad Jawad Bahonar († 1981)

  • Taylor Caldwell († 1985)

  • Tatiana A. Proskouriakoff († 1985)

21st century

  • Charles Bronson († 2003)

  • Nagib Mahfuz († 2006)

  • Wes Craven († 2015)

  • Věra Čáslavská († 2016)

Holidays and memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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