Wikipedia: August 30

August 30
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August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining.

Events

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
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
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.

Births

1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer († 1851)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, physicist († 1937)
1893 - Huey Long, American politician († 1935)
1896 - Raymond Massey, actor († 1983)
1898 - Shirley Booth, actress († 1992)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader ( 1981)
1906 - Joan Blondell, actress († 1979)
1908 - Fred MacMurray, actor († 1991)
1918 - Ted Williams, baseball player († 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. († 2001)
1939 - John Peel, Radio 1 DJ
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, skier
1943 - R. Crumb, cartoonist
1944 - Molly Ivins, political humorist
1947 - Peggy Lipton, actress
1951 - Timothy Bottoms, actor
1972 - Cameron Diaz, actress
1982 - Andy Roddick, tennis player

Deaths

30 BC - Cleopatra VII of Egypt
1856 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, writer
1928 - Wilhelm Wien, physicist
1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
1961 - Charles Coburn, actor
1981 - Vera-Ellen, actress
1985 - Taylor Caldwell, author
1991 - Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist
1994 - Lindsay Anderson, film director
2003 - Charles Bronson, actor

Holidays and observances

August 29 - August 31 - July 30 - September 30 -- listing of all days

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December\n