What are the important events that happened on August 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 30: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 30 is the 242nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 17, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,275,200 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontadigon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 171 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,635 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 30 Historical Events
- 1363 –Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
- 1590 –Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
- 1873 –Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
- 1897 –The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
- 1942 –World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
- 1945 –Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
- 1945 –The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
- 1945 –The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
- 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.
- 1967 –Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Who were born on August 30?
- 1818 –Alexander H. Rice, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
- 1821 –Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian revolutionary and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (d. 1849)
- 1852 –Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1911)
- 1890 –Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, British fighter ace (d. 1918)
- 1923 –Vic Seixas, American tennis player
- 1941 –Ben L. Jones, American actor, politician and essayist
- 1948 –Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
- 1980 –Derrick Ward, American football player
- 1984 –Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1988 –Michael Cavanaugh, American professional gamer
Who died on August 30?
- 1907 –Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
- 1935 –Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
- 1945 –Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer (b. 1893)
- 1968 –William Talman, American actor (b. 1915)
- 1970 –Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
- 1991 –Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
- 1995 –Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
- 1996 –Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
- 2000 –David Haskell, American actor (b. 1948)
- 2010 –Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
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