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The
30t o August
is the 242nt day o the year (243rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 123 days bidin.
Events
- 1464
-
Pape Paul II
is electit.
- 1832
-
Greece
's mairch wi the
Ottoman Empire
is agreed.
- 1835
-
Melbourne
,
Australie
is foondit.
- 1836
-
Houston
,
Texas
, is foondit.
- 1850
-
Honolulu
, the caipital o
Hawaii
, becomes a ceety.
- 1873
-
Austrick
splorers Julius von Payer an Karl von Weyprecht discover the isles o
Franz Josef Laund
in the
Roushie
Airctic
.
- 1881
- Breetish passenger steamer RMS Teuton hits a reef aff
Sooth Africae
an sinks; 236 oot o 272 fowk on baird are kilt.
- 1917
- On a nicht-time sailin,
French
passenger steamer Natal collides wi an oncomin cargo ship; 105 oot o 509 fowk on baird are kilt.
- 1941
-
Warld War II
: The Siege o
Leningrad
begins.
- 1945
-
Warld War II
:
Hong Kong
is liberatit frae Japanese occupation bi Breetish troops.
- 1946
- In post-
Warld War II
Germany
, the state o
Rhineland-Palatinate
is creatit in the French occupation zone.
- 1956
- The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in
Louisiana
opens.
- 1974
- An express train travellin frae
Dortmund
tae
Belgrade
crashes in
Zagreb
, killin 153 fowk.
- 1984
- The
Space
Shuttle Discovery launches on its first mission.
- 1990
-
Tatarstan
declares unthirldom.
- 1991
-
Azerbaijan
declares unthirldom.
- 1993
- The Hassan II
Mosque
in
Casablanca
,
Morocco
, is inauguratit.
- 2001
-
East Timor
haulds its first election syne votin for unthirldom.
- 2009
-
Yukio Hatoyama
wins elections in
Japan
.
- 2010
-
Francisco Varallo
o
Argentinae
, the last-survivin player o the
1930
FIFA Warld Cup
, dies agit 100.
- 2014
-
Donald Tusk
is selectit as
European Cooncil
Preses.
- 2016
-
Doris McLemore
, the last-survivin fluent speaker o the
Wichita leid
, dies agit 89.
- 2017
- The
Queensferry Crossing
, atween
Lowden
an
Fife
, opens tae traffic for the first time.
- 2020
-
COVID-19 pandemic
: The nummer o recordit
COVID-19
cases warldwide reaches 25 million.
Births
- 1748
-
Jacques-Louis David
, French penter (d.
1825
)
- 1752
-
Andrew Fyfe the Elder
, Scots anatomist (d.
1824
)
- 1797
-
Mary Shelley
, Inglis writer (d.
1851
)
- 1852
-
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
, Dutch chemist (d.
1911
)
- 1855
-
W. P. Ker
, Scots leeterar scholart an essayist (d.
1923
)
- 1871
-
Ernest Rutherford
, New Zealand pheesicist (d.
1937
)
- 1884
-
Theodor Svedberg
, Swadish chemist (d.
1971
)
- 1898
-
Shirley Booth
, American actress (d.
1992
)
- 1912
-
Edward Mills Purcell
, American pheesicist (d.
1997
)
- 1913
-
Thomas F. Torrance
, Scots theologian (d.
2007
)
- 1927
-
Douglas Mackay Henderson
, Scots botanist (d.
2007
)
- 1930
-
Warren Buffett
, American businessman
- 1943
-
Bobby Lennox
, Scots fitbawer
- 1946
-
Anne Marie o Denmark
, last Queen Consort o
Greece
- 1948
-
Victor Skumin
, Roushie scientist, professor, medicinar, psychotherapist, writer an philosopher
- 1954
-
Alexander Lukashenko
,
Preses
o
Belaroushie
- 1958
-
Anna Politkovskaya
, Roushie jurnalist an writer (d.
2006
)
- 1960
-
Ben Bradshaw
, Inglis politeecian
- 1965
-
Peter Grant
, Scots fitbawer an manager
- 1967
-
Eddie May
, Scots fitbawer an manager
- 1972
-
Cameron Diaz
, American actress
- 1978
-
Craig Smith
, Scots rugby union player
- 1982
-
Andy Roddick
, American tennis player
- 1983
-
Kris Commons
, Inglis-Scots fitbawer
- 1983
-
Simone Pepe
, Italian fitbawer
- 1985
-
Steven Smith
, Scots fitbawer
- 1986
-
Kylie Walker
, Scots gowfer
- 1988
-
Ernests Gulbis
, Latvian tennis player
- 1989
-
Bebe Rexha
, American sangster, sangwriter an record producer
- 1990
-
Aaron Muirhead
, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 1181
-
Pape Alexander III
(b.
1105
)
- 1483
-
Louis XI o Fraunce
(b.
1423
)
- 1928
-
Wilhelm Wien
, German pheesicist (b.
1864
)
- 1940
-
J. J. Thomson
, Inglis pheesicist (b.
1856
)
- 2003
-
Charles Bronson
, American actor (b.
1921
)
- 2006
-
Naguib Mahfouz
, Egyptian writer (b.
1911
)
- 2010
-
Francisco Varallo
, Argentine fitbawer (b.
1910
)
- 2013
-
Seamus Heaney
, Erse poet (b.
1939
)
- 2013
-
Soledad Mexia
, Mexican-American supercentenarian (b.
1899
)
- 2015
-
Oliver Sacks
, Inglis neurologist an writer (b.
1933
)
- 2015
-
Wes Craven
, American film director (b.
1939
)
- 2016
-
Doris McLemore
, last-survivin fluent speaker o the
Wichita leid
(b.
1927
)
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