August 30th

August 30 is the 242nd (two hundred and forty-second) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 243rd in leap years. There are 123 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1282: In the town of Trápani, the Aragon king Peter III disembarked his army of Almogavares at the cry of "Desperta Ferro!" The king of Sicily, Charles of Anjou, left the battlefield allowing the king of Aragon to go to Palermo (Sicilia) to be crowned king of Sicily.
• 1363: In China, the Battle of Lake Poyang begins, considered to be the greatest naval battle in history, with the participation of 850,000 soldiers: 600,000 of the Han and 250,000 of the Ming.
• 1483: In Spain, the Catholic Kings recognize and expand the Lulian University of Mallorca.
• 1531: In Colombia, the Spanish Jerónimo de Melo founded the village of Malambo.
• 1791: the ship HMS Pandora, who was looking for the HMS Bounty, sinks after the previous day in the Great Barrier of Coral.
• 1821: The Constitution of the Republic of Colombia of 1821 creates the Great Colombia and unifies the New Granada, Venezuela and later Ecuador.
• 1821: in Punta del Médano (Argentina), Chilean military José Miguel Carrera is imprisoned by the forces of the Argentine colonel José Albino Gutiérrez.
• 1825: The city of El Cerrito is founded in Colombia.
• 1848: Costa Rica is independent of the Federal Republic of Central America.
• 1849: In Chile, the City of Colonel, VIII Region of Biobío, was founded under the name Villa del Coronel.
• 1855: Argentina and Chile sign a peace, trade and navigation treaty.
• 1863: in Colombia is founded the villa of Pereira.
• 1874: The Government of the United Kingdom approves the maximum working day of 10 hours and the prohibition of work for children under 9 years of age.
• 1878: In Miskolc (Hungary), a flood occurs. The river Sajó climbs one meter per minute, preventing the escape of most of the population. About 500 people die drowned. There had already been several serious floods in 1691, 1788, 1813, 1845 and 1853, but this was the worst.
• 1879: Thomas A. Edison presents his first phone device, which exceeds the old system of Felipe Heiss perfected by Alexander Graham Bell..
• 1914: the Battle of Tannenberg is finished; the 8th German Army, led by General Paul von Hindenburg, defeats two Russian armies. The 1st command of General Paul von Rennenkampf and 2nd army led by General Aleksandr Samsónov - who dies in the battle-.
• 1918: In the Soviet Union, Fanni Kaplán shoots Lenin after a speech in Moscow. As a result, the Council of People's Commissars will establish in early September the so-called Red Terror.
• 1921: The International Congress on the Rights of Man is held in The Hague, the Netherlands.
• 1922: near Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, finishes the Battle of Dumlupinar; last battle of the Greek-Turkish War.
• 1923: In Germany—in the framework of the Weimar Republic—inflation causes a US dollar to be changed by 10 million German frameworks.
• 1926: the German swimmer Ernst Vierkotter crosses the Channel of the Blade in record time of 12 hours and 42 minutes.
• 1930: In Las Flores, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded the Club Ferrocarril Roca, known as Ferro de Las Flores.
• 1933: 400 km northwest of Asunción (Paraguay)—in the framework of the Chaco War—the battle of Campo Grande begins, in which a Paraguayan division will be able to close two Bolivian regiments, to surrender on September 15, 1933.
• 1942: the Battle of Alam the Halfa begins; the Panzerarmee Afrika, a German-Italian force commanded by Erwin Rommel tries to envelop the Eighth British Army of Bernard Montgomery.
• 1945: The Mexican Government recognizes the Government of the Spanish Republic (in exile due to the Franco dictatorship).
• 1952: in Buenos Aires, President Juan Domingo Perón forbids Francisco Cambó's paintings to leave Argentina.
• 1957: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 4:39 (local time), the United States detonates its 4.7 kiloton Franklin Prime atomic bomb at 230 m underground. It is the 106th bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1957: in Lima (Peru), Santa Rosa de Lima is appointed patron of the Peruvian National Police.

The X-17 Argus rocket, with an atomic head that exploded in space.

• 1958: in the South Atlantic, 2750 km west of Cape Town (South Africa) and 2000 km east of the South Georgia Islands, the United States Government - at 3:18 (local time) in the early morning - launches a rocket from a boat, with an atomic bomb that explodes in space, at 256 km altitude. It is the second test (of three) of the secret operation Argus.
• 1961: In Spain, Ladislao Kubala retires as a football player.
• 1965: in Switzerland, a hundred workers disappear after a glacier plunged over a dam near Zermatt
• 1967: in the USA. U.S. the Senate confirms the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black judge of the Supreme Court.
• 1974: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 160 kiloton Portmanteau atomic bomb to 655 m underground. It is the 826 bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1975: in Peru, after overthrowing the coup d’état Juan Velasco Alvarado yesterday, the also general coup d’état Francisco Morales Bermúdez is self-proclaimed president.
• 1975: In Venezuela, President Carlos Andrés Pérez, by Decree No. 1123, constitutes the company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).
• 1981: In Tehran (Iran) there is an attack on the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party in which President Mohammad Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohamad Bahonar die, as a result of which Ali Jamenei, until then secretary-general of the PRI, will be elected president.
• 1984: in Corporal Cañaveral (United States), NASA first launched the Discovery space shuttle on the STS-41-D mission, with two satellites of communication on board.
• 1984: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:45 (local time), the United States detonates to 365 m underground its atomic bombs Dolcetto and Wexford, of 20 and 15 kilotons respectively. It is the bombs n. 1016 and 1017 of the 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1987: the Canadian athlete Ben Johnson becomes the fastest man in the world, by achieving in Rome a brand of 9.83 seconds in the 100 m free.
• 1988: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:00 (local time), the United States detonates to 489 m underground its atomic bomb n.o 1081, Bullfrog, of 33 kilotons.
• 1991: Azerbaijan is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 1992: the Reading Festival is held with a legendary performance by Nirvana (banda)
• 1993: in Casablanca, Morocco, King Hasan II opened the Hasan II Mosque, the oldest after the Mecca mosque.
• 1994: Mexican singer Luis Miguel, released his 10th studio album, entitled Second romance.
• 1994: Mexican singer José José, released his 28th studio album entitled Mexican greatnessproduced again by the Spanish singer Manuel Alejandro.
• 1994: In Venezuela, the TV channel RCTV broadcasts the latest episode of the soap opera By these streets, considered one of the most successful Venezuelan telenovelas of all time, with enormous popularity due to its political and social issues.
• 1995: Operation Deliberated Force begins, in which Bosnia and Herzegovina is bombed to combat the Republika Srpska Army.
• 1996: in Putumayo, Colombia, the FARC guerrillas take the military base of Las Delicias in Puerto Leguízamo, leaving 28 soldiers killed, 16 wounded and 60 kidnapped.
• 1997: On the Internet Hattrick is created, one of the most popular games in the world. Up to 2007 it had 0.9 million users.
• 1998: The first Google Doodle, in honor of that year's Burning Man Festival, designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed.
• 1999: East Timor independenceists (78.5 per cent votes) beat the autonomists (21.5 per cent) in the referendum on greater autonomy or independence in Indonesia. Three years later, independence was officially ratified.
• 2005: In Pereira, Colombia, the Lucy Tejada Cultural Center is inaugurated.
• 2005: The second album of the American rapper Kanye West is released under the name of Late Registration.
• 2012: In Hualien County (Taiwan) the Britten-Norman Islander accident occurred in Taiwan in 2012
• 2020: the private company SpaceX puts in space the Argentine observation satellite SAOCOM 1B, aimed at optimizing harvests in the South American country.
• 2021: USA The U.S. puts an end to the longest war in its history with the withdrawal of its last soldiers from Afghanistan, almost 20 years after its deployment to that Central Asian nation.
• 2021: The UN confirms the eradication of global leaded gasoline.

Births

• 1334: Peter I of Castile, king of Castile (f. 1369).
• 1657: Philipp Peter Roos, German painter (f. 1706).
• 1748: Jacques-Louis David, French painter (f. 1825).
• 1778: Tomás de Allende, militar y funcionario argentina (f. 1815).
• 1791: Ramón de Santillán, politician and Spanish military (f. 1863).
• 1797: Mary Shelley, British writer, author of the novel "Frankenstein" (f. 1851).
• 1811: Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (f. 1872).
• 1844: José Nicolás Puccio, an Argentine businessman (f. 1894).
• 1844: Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer (f. 1904).
• 1852: Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, Dutch chemist, nobel chemistry award in 1901 (f. 1911).
• 1854: Enrique Creel Cuilty, Mexican politician (f. 1931).
• 1855: Ramón Falcón, militar, chief of police and deputy of Argentina (f. 1909).
• 1861: Rosalío Hernández, Mexican military (f. 1942).
• 1864: Christiaan Cornelissen, anarchist Dutch trade unionist (f. 1942).
• 1866: George Minne, Belgian sculptor (f. 1941).
• 1871: Ernest Rutherford, British physicist and chemist, 1908 (f. 1937).
• 1881: Agustín González de Amezúa, Spanish historian (f. 1956).
• 1883: Theo van Doesburg, a Dutch artist (f. 1931).
• 1884: Laureano Gómez Paratcha, a Spanish physician and politician (f. 1968).
• 1884: Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, 1926 (f. 1971).
• 1890: Juan Barragán Rodríguez, Mexican military and political (f. 1974).
• 1893: Huey Long, American politician (f. 1935).
• 1896: Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (f. 1983).
• 1896: Puru (Pu Xinyu), Chinese painter and pen (f. 1963).
• 1898: Shirley Booth, American actress (f. 1992).
• 1902: Leonidas Barletta, writer, journalist and Argentine playwright (f. 1975).
• 1902: Józef Maria Bocheński, Dominican friar, philosopher and Polish logic (f. 1995).
• 1906: Joan Blondell, American actress (f. 1979).
• 1907: Leonor Fini, an Argentine painter (f. 1996).
• 1908: Fred MacMurray, American actor (f. 1991).
• 1908: Ricardo Gullón, Spanish writer (f. 1991).
• 1912: Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1952 (f. 1997).
• 1912: Nancy Wake, a New Zealander who acted as a British agent in World War II (f. 2011).
• 1913: Diego Cháfer, Spanish cyclist (f. 2007).
• 1913: Richard Stone, British economist (f. 1991).
• 1918: Ted Williams, American baseball player (f. 2002).
• 1919: Kitty Wells, American singer (f. 2012).
• 1919: Justino Serralta, Uruguayan architect (f. 2011).
• 1919: Vladimir Pchelintsev, Soviet sniper (f. 1997).
• 1923: Aldo Francia, pediatrician and Chilean filmmaker (f. 1996).
• 1923: Vic Seixas, American tennis player.
• 1923: Maksim Passar, Soviet sniper (f. 1943)
• 1924: Gustavo Lagos Matus, Chilean lawyer (f. 2003).

Alain Rey

• 1927: Bill Daily, American actor (f. 2018).
• 1928: Alain Rey, linguist and French lexicographer (f. 2020).
• 1930: Warren Buffett, American financial.
• 1931: Jack Swigert, American astronaut (f. 1982).
• 1933: Luis Bacalov, pianist, director of orchestra and Italian composer (f. 2017).
• 1935: John Phillips, American musician, of the band The Mamas & the Papas (f. 2001).
• 1935: Clemente Vargas Jr., locutor and disc jockey of Venezuelan radio (f. 1992).
• 1936: Rosamel Araya, Chilean Boleros singer (f. 1996).
• 1937: Bruce McLaren, designer, pilot and New Zealand racing car engineer (f. 1970).
• 1938: Abel Laudonio, Argentinian boxer (f. 2014).
• 1938: Alberto Natale, Argentine politician (f. 2011).
• 1939: Dorys del Valle, an Argentine actress.
• 1939: Carmen Rico Godoy, a Spanish journalist (f. 2001).
• 1939: John Peel, radio broadcaster and British journalist (f. 2004).
• 1940: Ricardo Bauleo, Argentine actor (f. 2014).
• 1943: Robert Crumb, American hysterist.
• 1943: Jean-Claude Killy, French skier.
• 1944: Carmen Sarmiento, journalist and Spanish war correspondent.
• 1947: Peggy Lipton, American film actress (f. 2019).
• 1948: Arnaldo Larrinaga, African-Cuban painter.
• 1949: Peter Maffay, German singer.
• 1950: Antony Gormley, British sculptor.
• 1951: Timothy Bottoms, American actor and producer.
• 1951: Dana, Irish singer and politics.
• 1952: Manlio Fabio Beltrones, Mexican politician.
• 1953: María Luisa Carcedo, Spanish politics.
• 1953: Horace Panter, British musician, of the band The Specials.
• 1953: Robert Parish, American basketball player.
• 1954: Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus.
• 1954: José Carlos Cataño, poet, narrator and Canarian essayist.
• 1958: Martin Jackson, British drummer, The Chameleons and Swing Out Sister.
• 1958: Anna Politkóvskaya, a Russian journalist (f. 2006).
• 1960: Chalino Sánchez (Rosalino Sánchez-Félix), Mexican singer (f. 1992).
• 1960: Jabier Muguruza, Spanish musician.
• 1961: Andrea Frigerio (Andrea Mitchelstein), an Argentine television actress and driver.
• 1962: Aleksandr Litvinenko, Russian military and spy (f. 2006).
• 1963: Michael Chiklis, American actor.

Cameron Diaz

• 1963: Paul Oakenfold, British musician and DJ.
• 1964: Antonio Montiel, Spanish painter.
• 1965: Enilda Rosa Vega, Colombian actress.
• 1969: Salvatore Avallone, Italian footballer.
• 1971: Lars Frederiksen, American musician, of the Rancid band.
• 1972: Cameron Diaz, American actress.
• 1972: Hani Hanjour, a Saudi terrorist who participated in the 11S (f. 2001).
• 1972: Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer.
• 1972: José Ramón Amieva, Mexican politician.
• 1974: Ricardo (f. 2001) and Javier Otxoa (f. 2018), Spanish cyclists.
• 1975: Rich Cronin, American singer (f. 2010).
• 1975: Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer.
• 1977: Shaun Alexander, American football player.
• 1977: Norkys Batista, model and Venezuelan actress.
• 1977: Elizabeth Álvarez, Mexican actress.
• 1977: Jens Ludwig, German guitarist, Edguy band.
• 1977: Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer.
• 1978: Verónica Moral, Spanish actress.

Angel Coulby

• 1978: Swizz Beatz, American rapper and producer.
• 1979: Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player.
• 1979: Luis Rivas, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1980: Angel Coulby, British actress.
• 1981: Adam Wainwright, American baseball player.
• 1981: Grégory Béranger, French footballer.
• 1981: Tresor Kandol, Congolese footballer.
• 1981: Veniamín Mandrykin, Russian footballer.
• 1982: Andy Roddick, American tennis player.
• 1983: Simone Pepe, Italian footballer.
• 1985: Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer.

Bebe Rexha

• 1986: Ryan Ross, American guitarist, singer and composer.
• 1986: Davide Simoncini, a Sanmarinian footballer.
• 1988: Victor Claver, Spanish basketball player.
• 1988: Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player.
• 1989: Bebe Rexha, American singer and composer.
• 1989: Alba Torrens, Spanish basketball player.
• 1991: Deorro, DJ and American producer of Mexican origin.
• 1993: Paco Alcácer, Spanish footballer.
• 1993: Geraldine Galván, Mexican actress.
• 1994: Tommaso Augello, Italian footballer.
• 1996: Gabriel Barbosa, Brazilian footballer.
• 1996: Carolina Kopelioff, an Argentine actress.
• 1997: Alfa Semedo, a British footballer.
• 1997: Dael Fry, English footballer.
• 1997: Kasper Nissen, Danish footballer.
• 2001: Emily Bear, composer, pianist
• 2007: Momiji Nishiya, Japanese skater.

Deaths

• 1471: Thomas Kempis, German Catholic friar, author of the Imitation of Christ (n. 1380).
• 1580: Manuel Filiberto, French aristocrat (n. 1528).
• 1619: Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai (n. 1535).
• 1620: Baltasar Elisio de Medinilla, Spanish poet (n. 1585).
• 1625: Ana de Prussia, German noble (n. 1576).
• 1818: Casimiro Gómez Ortega, a Spanish physician and botanist (n. 1741).
• 1856: Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, journalist, playwright, humorist and British writer (n. 1811).
• 1883: Angela Peralta, Mexican singer (n. 1845).
• 1886: George Henry Gordon, American military (n. 1823).
• 1908: Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter (n. 1825).
• 1915: Pascual Orozco, a Mexican revolutionary (n. 1882).
• 1921: Enrique del Valle Iberlucea, politician and Argentine writer (n. 1877).
• 1928: Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1911 (n. 1864).
• 1935: Henri Barbusse, French novelist (n. 1873).
• 1940: Joseph John Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize of Physics in 1906 (n. 1856).
• 1961: Charles Coburn, American actor (n. 1877).
• 1964: Alekséi Grechkin, Soviet military (n. 1893).
• 1970: Abraham Zapruder, a Russian American citizen who filmed the murder of J.F. Kennedy (n. 1905).
• 1977: Vladimir Tributs, the Soviet admiral (n. 1900).
• 1979: Jean Seberg, American actress (n. 1938).
• 1981: Vera-Ellen, American actress (n. 1921).
• 1985: Taylor Caldwell, American writer born in the United Kingdom (n. 1900).
• 1985: José Cubero Yiyo, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1964).
• 1986: Leonardo Posada, Colombian leader (n. 1947).
• 1991: Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (n. 1925).
• 1994: Lindsay Anderson, British writer and filmmaker born in India (n. 1923).
• 1995: Sterling Morrison, American guitarist, of the band The Velvet Underground (n. 1942).
• 1996: José Toribio Merino, Chilean admiral (n. 1915).
• 1998: Carlos Molina, Uruguayan poet and payer (n. 1927).
• 1999: Horacio Sáenz Guerrero, Spanish journalist (n. 1921)
• 2002: J. Lee Thompson, British filmmaker (n. 1914).
• 2002: Maria Baida, Soviet military physician and Heroin of the Soviet Union (n. 1922)
• 2003: Charles Bronson, American actor (n. 1921).
• 2004: Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (n. 1906).
• 2005: Antoni Clavé, a Spanish painter (n. 1913).
• 2006: Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (n. 1916).
• 2006: Naguib Mahfuz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988 (n. 1911).
• 2007: José Luis de Vilallonga, aristocrat, actor, writer and Spanish journalist (n. 1920).
• 2008: Marés González, Chilean actress of theatre and television born in Argentina (n. 1925).
• 2008: Killer Kowalski (Wladek Kowalski), Canadian professional fighter (n. 1926).
• 2008: Vicente Marco, Spanish journalist (n. 1916).
• 2008: Ernesto Segura de Luna, Spanish lawyer, former president of the Spanish Federation of Basketball (n. 1922).
• 2010: Jairo Aníbal Niño, Colombian poet and playwright (n. 1941).
• 2010: Francisco Varallo, footballer and centenary of Argentina (n. 1910).
• 2010: Alain Corneau, actor, screenwriter and French filmmaker (n. 1943).
• 2010: Manuel Urbina, a Spanish painter (n. 1931).
• 2010: Willy Wullich, Argentine producer (n. 1944).
• 2012: Bernardo Bonezzi, Spanish composer (n. 1964).
• 2012: Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor (n. 1937).
• 2013: Seamus Heaney, Irish writer and academic, nobel literature award in 1995 (n. 1939).
• 2013: Manuel Martín Ferrand, Spanish journalist (n. 1940).
• 2014: Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (n. 1996).
• 2014: Manuel Pertegaz, Spanish modisto (n. 1918).
• 2015: Oliver Sacks, an Anglo-American neurologist and writer (n. 1933).
• 2015: Wes Craven, film director (n. 1939).
• 2017: Louise Hay, American writer (n. 1926).
• 2019: Valerie Harper, American actress (n. 1939)
• 2020: Cecilia Romo, first Mexican actress (n. 1945)
• 2020: Angel Faus Belau, Spanish journalist and professor (n. 1935).
• 2021: Tomás Blanch, Chilean youtuber (n. 2009)

Mikhail Gorbachev

• 2022: Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet politician, Leader of the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991 and Nobel Peace Prize 1990 (n. 1931).

Celebrations

• International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances
• International Whale Shark Day
• Latin America: International Day of Disappeared Detainment.
• Turkey: Festival of Victory.

Catholic saints list

• America and the Philippines: Patron Festival in honor of the Holy Peruvian Rosa de Lima.
• Santander – Patron Festival in honor of San Emeterio and San Celedonio
• Peru Peru: Santa Rosa de Lima, Peruvian mystical religious. (It is held in Spain on 23 August).
• San Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
• San Eustáquio van Lieshout
• Saint Felix of Rome
• Santa Juana Jugan
• Santa Margarita Ward, martyr
• Saint Narcisa of Jesus
• San Pamaquio
• San Fiacro