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 242^nd 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, 487,920 hours 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.

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.

August 30 Historical Events

• 1791 –
  HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
• 1813 –
  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.
• 1862 –
  American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
• 1873 –
  Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph 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.
• 1940 –
  The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
• 1942 –
  World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
• 1963 –
  The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

Who were born on August 30?

• 1334 –
  King Peter of Castile (d. 1369)
• 1377 –
  Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
• 1912 –
  Nancy Wake, British war agent (d. 2011)
• 1922 –
  Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
• 1926 –
  Daryl Gates, American police chief (d. 2010)
• 1953 –
  Robert Parish, American basketball player
• 1968 –
  Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1970 –
  Michael Wong, Malaysia-born Chinese singer
• 1981 –
  Adam Wainwright, American baseball player
• 1983 –
  Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor

Who died on August 30?

• 1619 –
  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
• 1886 –
  Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
• 1945 –
  Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer (b. 1893)
• 1946 –
  Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
• 1993 –
  Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1996 –
  Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
• 2000 –
  David Haskell, American actor (b. 1948)
• 2004 –
  Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
• 2007 –
  Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author and expert (b. 1942)
• 2010 –
  Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943)