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History Events on August 30

Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.

#Ernest_Shackleton

In 1916
Bosnian War
Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.

#Bosnian_War

In 1995
Ruby Ridge
The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.

#Ruby_Ridge

In 1992
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)

#Tokugawa_Ieyasu

In 1590
Tom Thabane
Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.

#Tom_Thabane

In 2014
Vietnam
Vietnamese prison guards led by Tr?nh V?n C?n mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.

#Vietnam

In 1917
Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823
Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.

#Rico_Linhas_Aéreas_Flight_4823

In 2002
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.

#Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

In 1991
HMS Pandora (1779)
HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.

#HMS_Pandora_(1779)

In 1791
Battle of Alam el Halfa
World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.

#Battle_of_Alam_el_Halfa

In 1942
World War I
World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.

#World_War_I

In 1914
Allied Control Council
The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.

#Allied_Control_Council

In 1945
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.

#Anne,_Princess_Royal_and_Princess_of_Orange

In 1727
RMS Queen Mary
The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.

#RMS_Queen_Mary

In 1936
August Revolution
The August Revolution ends as Emperor B?o ??i abdicates, ending the Nguy?n dynasty.

#August_Revolution

In 1945
STS-41-D
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

#STS-41-D

In 1984
Second Congo War
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.

#Second_Congo_War

In 1998
Guru Ram Das
Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

#Guru_Ram_Das

In 1574
Moscow-Washington hotline
The Moscow-Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

#Moscow-Washington_hotline

In 1963
Julius von Payer
Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

#Julius_von_Payer

In 1873
Commander-in-chief
The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

#Commander-in-chief

In 1945
American Civil War
American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.

#American_Civil_War

In 1862
Battle of Dumlup?nar
Battle of Dumlup?nar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").

#Battle_of_Dumlup?nar

In 1922
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

#Mohammad-Ali_Rajai

In 1981
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.

#Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong

In 1945
Burgess Shale
Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

#Burgess_Shale

In 1909
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
The christening of Prince Henry of Scotland is celebrated with the Masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.

#Henry_Frederick,_Prince_of_Wales

In 1594
Creek War
Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.

#Creek_War

In 1813
Titus
Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

#Titus

In 70
Second Vienna Award
The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.

#Second_Vienna_Award

In 1940
NAMC YS-11
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

#NAMC_YS-11

In 1962
Philippine Revolution
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.

#Philippine_Revolution

In 1896
1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing
A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

#1974_Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries_bombing

In 1974
Belgrade
A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.

#Belgrade

In 1974
Peter III of Aragon
Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

#Peter_III_of_Aragon

In 1282
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

#Thurgood_Marshall

In 1967
Pope Paul II
Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.

#Pope_Paul_II

In 1464
A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
In 2008
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.
In 1918
Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
In 1835
First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
In 1813
Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
In 1800
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.
In 1799
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.
In 1363

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