August, 30th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Tuesday 30, 2005:
The 17th Street Canal in New Orleans is breached by Hurricane Katrina, leading to massive flooding and destruction.

Friday 30, 2002:
The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas, ceases to operate.

Monday 30, 1999:
East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.

Monday 30, 1993:
The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.

Sunday 30, 1992:
Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Friday 30, 1991:
Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.

Thursday 30, 1990:
Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.

Thursday 30, 1984:
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

Monday 30, 1976:
Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.

Wednesday 30, 1967:
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Monday 30, 1965:
Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."

Friday 30, 1963:
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.

Thursday 30, 1962:
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

Thursday 30, 1945:
Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

Sunday 30, 1942:
World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.

Saturday 30, 1941:
Siege of Leningrad begins.

Wednesday 30, 1922:
Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")

Friday 30, 1918:
Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

Sunday 30, 1914:
Battle of Tannenberg

Monday 30, 1909:
Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott

Saturday 30, 1873:
Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

Saturday 30, 1862:
American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run

Friday 30, 1850:
Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

Monday 30, 1813:
Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.

Thursday 30, 1590:
Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

Friday 30, 1574:
Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master

Wednesday 30, 711:
K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of the Maya city of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/30-august/on-this-day.html


People born on August 30

1982:
Andy Roddick, American tennis player (b: August 30, 1982) (Biography of Andy Roddick)

1974:
Aaron Barrett, American guitarist and singer (Reel Big Fish) (b: August 30, 1974) (Biography of Aaron Barrett)

1972:
Cameron Diaz, American actress (b: August 30, 1972) (Biography of Cameron Diaz)
Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer (b: August 30, 1972) (Biography of Pavel Nedved)

1963:
Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey (b: August 30, 1963) (Biography of Paul Oakenfold)

1959:
Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian footballer and actor (b: August 30, 1959) (Biography of Mark 'Jacko' Jackson)

1954:
Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus (b: August 30, 1954) (Biography of Alexander Lukashenko)

1951:
Timothy Bottoms, American actor (b: August 30, 1951) (Biography of Timothy Bottoms)
Dana (singer), Irish singer and politician (b: August 30, 1951) (Biography of Dana (singer))

1948:
Lewis Black, American comedian (b: August 30, 1948) (Biography of Lewis Black)

1947:
Peggy Lipton, American actress (b: August 30, 1947) (Biography of Peggy Lipton)

1944:
Molly Ivins, American political humorist (b: August 30, 1944) (Biography of Molly Ivins)

1943:
Jean-Claude Killy, French skier (b: August 30, 1943) (Biography of Jean-Claude Killy)
R. Crumb, American cartoonist (b: August 30, 1943) (Biography of R. Crumb)

1941:
Ben Jones, American actor and politician (b: August 30, 1941) (Biography of Ben Jones (US))

1939:
John Peel, English radio disc jockey (b: August 30, 1939 ; d: October 25, 2004) (Biography of John Peel)

1935:
John Phillips, American singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b: August 30, 1935 ; d: March 18, 2001) (Biography of John Phillips (musician))

1930:
Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur (b: August 30, 1930) (Biography of Warren Buffett)
Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach (b: August 30, 1930) (Biography of Jerry Tarkanian)

1927:
Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b: August 30, 1927 ; d: September 28, 2004) (Biography of Geoffrey Beene)

1925:
Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator (b: August 30, 1925) (Biography of Laurent de Brunhoff)

1922:
Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b: August 30, 1922 ; d: October 21, 1986) (Biography of Lionel Keith Murphy)

1919:
Kitty Wells, American singer (b: August 30, 1919) (Biography of Kitty Wells)

1918:
Ted Williams, baseball player (b: August 30, 1918 ; d: July 5, 2002) (Biography of Ted Williams)

1912:
Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: August 30, 1912 ; d: March 7, 1997) (Biography of Edward Mills Purcell)

1908:
Fred MacMurray, American actor (b: August 30, 1908 ; d: November 5, 1991) (Biography of Fred MacMurray)

1906:
Joan Blondell, American actress (b: August 30, 1906) (Biography of Joan Blondell)

1901:
Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (1981) (b: August 30, 1901 ; d: September 8, 1981) (Biography of Roy Wilkins)

1898:
Shirley Booth, American actress (b: August 30, 1898 ; d: October 16, 1992) (Biography of Shirley Booth)

1896:
Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b: August 30, 1896 ; d: July 29, 1983) (Biography of Raymond Massey)

1893:
Huey Long, American politician (b: August 30, 1893 ; d: September 10, 1935) (Biography of Huey Long)

1884:
Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: August 30, 1884 ; d: February 25, 1971) (Biography of Theodor Svedberg)

1871:
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (b: August 30, 1871 ; d: October 19, 1937) (Biography of Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson)

1856:
Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b: August 30, 1856 ; d: January 3, 1927) (Biography of Carle David Tolmé Runge)

1852:
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: August 30, 1852 ; d: March 1, 1911) (Biography of Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff)

1839:
Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (b: August 30, 1839 ; d: January 4, 1903) (Biography of Gulstan Ropert)

1797:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (b: August 30, 1797) (Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

1748:
Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b: August 30, 1748 ; d: December 29, 1825) (Biography of Jacques-Louis David)

1705:
David Hartley, English philosopher (b: August 30, 1705 ; d: August 28, 1757) (Biography of David Hartley (philosopher))

1334:
King Peter I of Castile (b: August 30, 1334 ; d: March 23, 1369) (Biography of Peter I of Castile)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/30-august/births.html