August 30

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

1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
1813 - Battle of Kulm - French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
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
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")
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
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR
1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum
2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.

1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer (d. 1851)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, physicist (d. 1937)
1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
1896 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)
1898 - Shirley Booth, actress (d. 1992)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader ( 1981)
1906 - Joan Blondell, actress (d. 1979)
1908 - Fred MacMurray, actor (d. 1991)
1918 - Ted Williams, baseball player (d. 2002)
1919 - Kitty Wells, country music singer
1927 - Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
1930 - Warren Buffett, entrepreneur
1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, college basketball coach
1935 - John Phillips, singer, The Mamas and the Papas. (d. 2001)
1939 - John Peel, Radio 1 DJ
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, French alpine skier
1943 - R. Crumb, cartoonist
1944 - Molly Ivins, political humorist
1947 - Peggy Lipton, actress
1948 - Lewis Black, stand-up comedian
1951 - Timothy Bottoms, actor
1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress (There's Something About Mary, Any Given Sunday, Shrek)
1972 - Pavel Nedved, Czech football star
1980 - Aaron Barrett, Reel Big Fish guitarist, singer
1982 - Andy Roddick, tennis player