Various events that happened on 30 August

Every day's significant events become history over time. Those events take place there, which are good, which are first, which are the curse-blessing of mankind. The agenda of history has always been important to people. Keeping this importance in mind, Bangladesh regularly organizes 'Today's History' for the readers.

Today is 30 August 2024, Friday. Take a look at the important events that happened on this day in history, the birth and death dates of prominent people and other important things.

event report

70 BC – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after Herod destroys the temple.

1282 – Peter III of Aragon descends to Trapani to intervene in the Battle of the Sicilian Vespers.

1363 – The Five Weeks' Battle of Poyang Lake begins, where the armies of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Yulianong and Xu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will support the Yuan Dynasty.

1464 – Pope Paul II is sworn in as the successor of Pope Pius II and as the 211st pope.

1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle.

1594 – King James of Scotland wears a mask at the baptism of Prince Henry.

1721 – Peace Treaty of Listav concluded.

1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title of Princess Royal.

1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after running aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.

1799 – The entire Dutch fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercrombie and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell is captured by British forces during the Battle of the Second Coalition.

1800 – Gabriel Prosser stops a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before it can happen.

1813 – First Battle of Culm: French forces are defeated by the Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims Massacre: Creek “Red Sticks” kill over 500 people (including over 250 armed militia) at Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.

1830 – Prince Otho of Bulgaria is elected King of Greece.

1835 – Australia: Melbourne, Victoria founded.

1850 – Honolulu gains city status.

1860 – First tram in Britain.

1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Union troops under General William “Bull” Nelson under Edmund Kirby Smith.

1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Peyer and Carl Weprecht discover the French Joseph Land Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.

1896 – Philippine Revolution: Spanish Governor-General General Ramon Blanco y Arenas declares eight Philippine provinces under martial law following the Spanish victory at the Battle of San Juan del Monti.

1907 – Iran was divided into three parts by an agreement between Russia and the British colonial government.

1909 – Burgess Shale fossil discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

1914 – World War I: The Germans defeat the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg.

1916 – Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all his men stranded on Elephant Island, Antarctica.

1917 – Vietnamese prison guards revolt against local French authority under the command of Thie Nguyen, led by Tran Hanh Kahn Sen.

1918 – Fanny Kaplan shoots and mortally wounds Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, having requested the decree a few days earlier in addition to murdering senior Bolshevik officer Maisie Uritsky.

1933 – Air France is formed.

1941 – German forces besiege Leningrad.

[1945-HongKonggainedindependencefromJapanwiththehelpofBritishforces

1956 – The Soviet Union conducts a nuclear test.

1957 – The United States conducts a nuclear test.

1971 – Inauguration of Bangladesh Mission in Delhi.

1991 – The Republic of Azerbaijan secedes from the former Soviet Union and declares independence.

997 – Signing of the Muslim Croat Treaty in Bosnia.

1999 – East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia.

the birth

1569 – Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wife of poet Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein'.

1844 – Educationist, writer and philanthropist Chandranath Bose.

1852 – Jacobus Henrikus Funt Hoff, Nobel Prize-winning Dutch chemist.

1856 – Carl David Ptolemy Runge, German mathematician and physicist.

1871 – Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize-winning New Zealand English physicist and chemist.

1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Nobel Prize-winning Swedish chemist and physicist.

1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel Prize-winning American physicist.

1913 – Richard Stone, Nobel Prize-winning English economist and statistician.

1917 – Denis Healy, British politician.

1930 – Warren Buffett, American businessman, investor and philanthropist.

1951 – Indian Bengali footballer Surjit Sengupta.

1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor, director and producer.

1972 – Pavel Nedved, footballer and former captain of the Czech Republic.

1972 – Cameron Diaz, actress and fashion model.

1982 – Andy Roddick American tennis star.

1983 – Emmanuel Coolio, Argentine footballer.

1985 – Holly Weston, English actress.

death

1483 – King Louis XI of France.

1659 – Dara Shikoh by Aurangzeb's assassin.

1877 – Taru Dutta, Indian Bengali poet in English and French.

1911 – Harinath Dey, polyglot Indian Bengali scholar.

1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1911.

1976 – Jadugopal Mukhopadhyay, revolutionary in the Indian subcontinent's anti-British independence movement, undisputed leader of the practice association and renowned physician.

1981 – Niharranjan Roy is an internationally renowned Bengali historian, literary critic and art-research scholar.

1981 – Iranian President Mohammad Al Razai and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahona are killed in a bombing by the People's Mojahedin of Iran.

1987 – Famous Palestinian cartoonist Naziul Ali was killed by the Zionist Israeli spy agency Mossad in London.

2001 – Afam Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 11th President of Bangladesh.

2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel laureate Egyptian writer.

2013 – Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and playwright.

2017 – Abdul Jabbar, Bangladeshi music artist.

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