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 243^rd 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, 28,749,600 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 ‘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.

August 30 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1835 –
  Melbourne, Australia is founded.
• 1897 –
  The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
• 1914 –
  World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
• 1918 –
  Fanny Kaplan 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.
• 1922 –
  Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (“Turkish War of Independence”).
• 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.
• 1995 –
  NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

Who were born on August 30?

• 1797 –
  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
• 1848 –
  Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
• 1871 –
  Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
• 1918 –
  Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1924 –
  Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1943 –
  Tal Brody, American-born Israeli basketball player
• 1964 –
  Gavin Fisher, British engineer
• 1971 –
  Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
• 1977 –
  Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
• 1985 –
  Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer

Who died on August 30?

• 1158 –
  King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
• 1580 –
  Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
• 1896 –
  Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
• 1945 –
  Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer (b. 1893)
• 1949 –
  Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1979 –
  Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1995 –
  Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
• 2001 –
  Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (b. 1907)
• 2004 –
  Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
• 2010 –
  Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)