On this day in History - Aug 30

30 a.C. - Cleópatra VII do Egipto dies (suicide)
0711 - K'inich K'an Joy Chitam king of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state
1158 - King Sancho III of Castile dies (b. 1134)
1181 - Rolando Bandinelli (Pope Alexander III) dies
1334 - King Peter I of Castile was born (d. 1369) . King of Castile (1349-1369)
1428 - Emperor Shoko of Japan dies. (b. 1401)
1464 -Início do pontificado do Papa Paulo II
1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423) . King of France (1461-1483)
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
1585 - Andrea Gabrieli dies. Italian composer.
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590).
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro dies (b. 1535). Japanese samurai and warlord.
1748 - Jacques-Louis David was born (d. 1825). French painter
1751 - Christopher Polhem dies (b. 1661). Swedish scientist and inventor
1773 - Nicolau Nasoni dies. Italian architect who has several important works in Portugal.
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born (d. 1851). English writer ( Frankenstein).
1808 -Assinatura da convenção de Sintra, que põe termo à Primeira Invasão Francesa.
1813 - Battle of Kulm - French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
1820 - Aprovação da Constituição da Colômbia
1839 - Gulstan Ropert was born (d. 1903). French Catholic prelate.
1848 - Costa Rica proclama su independencia. José María Castro Madriz se convierte en el primer presidente de Costa Rica (1848-49). Se lo considera fundador de la República.
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born (d. 1911). Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson was born (d. 1937). New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett dies (b. 1811). English writer
1857 - Inauguración de la primera línea ferroviaria en la República Argentina: La Porteña
1862 - Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright
1862 - Union forces defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run
1870 - Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
1879 - John Bell Hoodv dies (b. 1831). American Confederate general
1883 - Angela Peralta was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
1884 - Theodor Svedberg was born (d. 1971). Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1893 - Huey Long was born (d. 1935). American politician
1896 - Raymond Massey was born (d. 1983). Canadian actor
1896 - Nascimento de Luiz Damasco Penna. Educador brasileiro.
1898 - Shirley Booth was born (d. 1992). American actress
1901 - Roy Wilkins was born (d. 1981). American civil rights leader
1902 - Nace en Buenos Aires el poeta, escritor, periodista y director de teatro Leónidas Barletta (m. 15 Mar 1975), perteneciente al Grupo Boedo. En 1930 fundó el Teatro del Pueblo, precursor del teatro indepeniente "Los pobres", "La ciudad de un hombre" e "Historia de perros". En 1930 fundó el Teatro del Pueblo, precursor del teatro independiente.
1903 - Muere en Buenos Aires el historiador Vicente Fidel López (n. 24 Abr 1815). "La novia del hereje" "Autobiografía".
1904 - Se funda el club Atlético Uruguay, de Concepción del Uruguay, provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina.
1906 - Se funda el club Argentino de Merlo, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1906 - Joan Blondell was born (d. 1979). American actress.
1907 - Richard Mansfield dies (b. 1857). American actor and manager
1908 - Fred MacMurray was born (d. 1991). American actor
1908 - Se funda el club Gimnasia y Esgrima 1908, de Mendoza, Argentina.
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell was born (d. 1997). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg
1916 - Se funda el club Independiente, de Trelew, Chubut, Argentina.
1918 - Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shot and seriously injured Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompted the decree for Red Terror.
1918 - Ted Williams was born (d. 2002). B baseball player (d. 2002)
1919 - Kitty Wells was born. American singer
1921 - António Joaquim Granjo assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")
1922 - Lionel Murphy was born. Australian politician and judge
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff was born. French writer and illustrator
1927 - Geoffrey Beene was born. American fashion designer
1928 - Wilhelm Wien dies (b. 1864). German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1906.
1930 - Warren Buffett was born. American entrepreneur
1930 - Jerry Tarkanian was born. American basketball coach
1935 - John Phillips was born. American singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
1935 - Henri Barbusse dies (b. 1873). French novelist and journalist.
1939 - John Peel was born. English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
1940 - J.J. Thomson dies (b. 1856). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 - Ben Jones was born. was born. American actor and politician
1941 - Nélson Xavier was born. Brazilian actor
1941 - Siege of Leningrad begins
1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa began
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy was born.French skier
1943 - R. Crumb was born. American cartoonist.
1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout dies (b. 1890). Dutch Catholic priest.
1944 - Molly Ivins was born. American political humorist
1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Forces
1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1947 - Peggy Lipton was born. American actress
1948 - Lewis Black was born. American comedian
1951 - Timothy Bottoms was born. American actor
1951 - Dana (singer) was born. Irish singer and politician
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko was born. President of Belarus
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson was born. Australian footballer and actor
1961 - España, Ladislao Kubala se retira como jugador de fútbol.
1961 - Charles Coburn dies (b. 1877). American actor.
1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation
1963 - Paul Oakenfold was born. British disc jockey
1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball
1965 - Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influencial album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
1967 - Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1970 - Paulo Sousa was born. Portuguese footballer.
1972 - Cameron Diaz was born. American actress .
1972 - Kaya Brüel was born. Danish actress.
1972 - Pavel Nedved was born. Czech footballer
1974 - Aaron Barrett was born. American guitarist and singer (Reel Big Fish)
1975 - Vasco Gonçalves é demitido do cargo de primeiro-ministro.
1975 - Francisco Morales Bermúdez assume a presidência do Peru
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1979 - Nascimento de Juan Ignacio Chela (tenista argentino)
1981 - Atentado mata o presidente do Irã, Mohammad Ali Rajai.
1981 - Vera-Ellen dies (b. 1921). American actress.
1982 - Andy Roddick was born. American tennis player.
1985 - Taylor Caldwell dies (b. 1900). English-born author.
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR
1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR
1991 - Jean Tinguely dies (b. 1925). Swiss painter and sculptor.
1991 - Lançamento do satéllite japonês Yohkoh
1992 - Michael Schumacher wins his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
1993 - The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
1993 - El rey Hassan II de Marruecos inaugura en Casablanca la Gran Mezquita que lleva su nombre, la mayor después de la de La Meca.
1994 - Lindsay Anderson dies (b. 1923). English film director.
1995 - Agepê dies (b. 1942). Brazilian singer.

1995 -Mário Soares recebe o Prémio Príncipe das Astúrias de Cooperação Internacional.
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.

2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
2002 - China ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto
2003 - O marroquino Jaouad Gharib vence a maratona do Mundial de Atletismo - Paris - França.
2003 - Charles Bronson dies (b. 1921). American actor
2003 - Donald Davidson dies (b. 1917). American philosopher
2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple dies (b. 1906). American astronomer.
2004 - O jogador Luís Fabiano (São Paulo) assina contrato com o Porto, Portugal
Victory Day in Turkey (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922)
Saint Rose of Lima's Day in Peru and Philipines