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 243rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 17, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,160 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 ‘dihectatetracontatrigon’ 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 152 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 4,270 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.
- 1791 –HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
- 1799 –The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 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.
- 1836 –The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
- 1873 –Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
- 1922 –Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (“Turkish War of Independence”).
- 1945 –The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
- 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.
- 1974 –A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
Who were born on August 30?
- 1797 –Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
- 1848 –Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
- 1913 –Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- 1915 –Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1917 –Denis Healey, British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- 1917 –Vladimir Kirillovich, Grand Duke of Russia, pretender to the Russian throne (d. 1992)
- 1919 –Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (d. 2010)
- 1923 –Barbara Ansell, British physician, founder of paediatric rheumatology (d. 2001)
- 1931 –John Leonard “Jack” Swigert, Jr., American astronaut (d. 1982)
- 1942 –Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
Who died on August 30?
- 1329 –Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, emperor of the Yuan Dynasty and the Mongol Empire (b. 1300)
- 1879 –John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
- 1886 –Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
- 1907 –Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
- 1945 –Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer (b. 1893)
- 1949 –Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
- 1991 –Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
- 1999 –Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910
- 2006 –Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
- 2007 –Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
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