August 30 AD 70 Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.*
August 30 AD 70 Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.*
August 30 1282 Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.*
August 30 1363 The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.*
August 30 1464 Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.*
August 30 1574 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.*
August 30 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)*
August 30 1594 King James of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry*
August 30 1727 Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.*
August 30 1791 HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.*
August 30 1799 The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.*
August 30 1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.*
August 30 1813 First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.*
August 30 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.*
August 30 1835 Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.*
August 30 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.*
August 30 1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.*
August 30 1896 Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.*
August 30 1914 World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.*
August 30 1916 Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.*
August 30 1917 Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.*
August 30 1918 Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.*
August 30 1922 Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").*
August 30 1936 The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.*
August 30 1940 The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.*
August 30 1941 The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.*
August 30 1942 World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.*
August 30 1945 The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.* 500 men were landed from HMS SWIFTSURE & EURYALUS to clear the dockyard *1
August 30 1945 The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.*
August 30 1945 The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.*
August 30 1995 Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.*
August 30 1998 Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.*
Source *Wikipedia *1 Royal Navy
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