On this day in History - Aug. 30

30 a.C. - Cleópatra VII do Egipt dies (suicide).

0526 - Theodoric the Great dies (b. 0454).
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).

1377 - Shah Rukh was bron (d. 1447). Ruler of Persia and Transoxonia.
1428 - Emperor Shoko of Japan dies. (b. 1401).
1464 - Pope Paulo II begins his Papacy.
1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423). King of France (1461-1483).
1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy dies (b. 1528).
1585 - Andrea Gabrieli dies. Italian composer.
1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590).

1617 - Rose of Lima dies (b. 1586). Peruvian saint.
1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro dies (b. 1535). Japanese samurai and warlord.
1705 - David Hartley was born (d. 1757). English philosopher.
1720 - Samuel Whitbread was born (d. 1796). English brewer.
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).

1799 - Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800 - Gabriel Prosser leads a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia.
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.

1821 - Anita Garibaldi was born (d. 1849). Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters).

1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.

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.
1848 - Andrew Onderdonk was born (d. 1905). Canadian railway contractor.
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born (d. 1911). Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge was born (d. 1927). German physicist.
1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett dies (b. 1811). English writer.
1857 - Inauguración de la primera línea ferroviaria en la República Argentina: La Porteña.
1860 - Isaac Levitan was born (d. 1900). Russian artist.

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 becomes Prime-Minister of Portugal.

1871 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson was born (d. 1937). New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
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 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
1896 - Raymond Massey was born (d. 1983). Canadian actor.
1896 - Luiz Damasco Penna was born. Brazilian educator.
1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1898 - Shirley Booth was born (d. 1992). American actress.
1901 - Roy Wilkins was born (d. 1981). American civil rights leader.

1901 - John Gunther was born (d. 1970). American writer.
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 - Vicente Fidel López dies in Buenos Aires (b. 24 Apr 1815). Argentinian historian ("La novia del hereje" "Autobiografía").
1904 - Se funda el Club Atlético Uruguay, de Concepción del Uruguay, provincia de Entre Ríos, Argentina.
1906 - Club Argentino de Merlo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is founded.
1906 - Joan Blondell was born (d. 1979). American actress.

1906 - Hans Auer dies (b. 1847). Swiss architect.
1907 - Richard Mansfield dies (b. 1857). American actor and manager.
1908 - Fred MacMurray was born (d. 1991). American actor.
1908 - Club Gimnasia y Esgrima 1908, in Mendoza, Argentina, is founded.
1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1912 - Edward Mills Purcell was born (d. 1997). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.

1912 - Nancy Wake was born. New Zealand-born World War II secret agent.
1913 - Richard Stone was born (d. 1991). Bank of Sweden Prize winner.

1914 - Battle of Tannenberg.
1915 - Robert Strassburg was born (d. 2003). American composer.
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). American baseball player.

1918 - Billy Johnson was born (d. 2006). American baseball player.
1919 - Kitty Wells was born. American singer.
1921 - António Joaquim Granjo becomes Prime-Minister in Portugal.
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence").
1922 - Lionel Murphy was born (d. 1986). Australian politician and judge.

1923 - Vic Seixas was born. American tennis player.
1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff was born. French writer and illustrator.
1927 - Geoffrey Beene was born. American fashion designer.
1928 - Lloyd Casner was born (d. 1965). American racecar driver and owner.
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.

1931 - Jack Swigert was born (d. 1982). American astronaut.
1933 - Don Getty was born. Canadian politician.
1935 - John Phillips was born (d. 2001). American singer (The Mamas and the Papas).
1935 - Henri Barbusse dies (b. 1873). French novelist and journalist.
1937 - Bruce McLaren was born (d. 1970). New Zealand car racer and manufacturer.
1938 - Max Factor dies (b. 1877). Make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer.
1939 - Elizabeth Ashley was born. American actress.
1939 - John Peel was born (d. 2004). English radio disc jockey.
1940 - J.J. Thomson dies (b. 1856). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins.
1941 - Ben Jones was born. was born. American actor and politician.
1941 - Nélson Xavier was born. Brazilian actor.
1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen dies (b. 1874). Danish engineer and physicist.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa began.
1943 - Jean-Claude Killy was born. French skier.
1943 - Robert Crumb was born. American cartoonist.
1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout dies (b. 1890). Dutch Catholic priest.
1944 - Molly Ivins was born. American political humorist.

1944 - Tug McGraw was born (d. 2004). American baseball player.
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.

1946 - Peggy Lipton was born. American actress.
1946 - Queen Anne-Marie of Greece was born.
1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky dies executed (b. 1907). Russian fascist.
1946 - Grigory Semyonov dies executed (b. 1890). Russian counter-revolutionary.
1947 - Allan Rock was born. Canadian politician and diplomat.
1948 - Lewis Black was born. American comedian.
1948 - Donnacha O'Dea was born. Irish poker player and swimmer.
1949 - Peter Maffay was born. German musician.
1949 - Ted Ammon was born (d. 2001). American financier.
1949 - Christopher Collins was born (d. 1994). American actor and comedian.
1949 - Don Boudria was born. Canadian politician.

1949 - Arthur Fielder, dies (b. 1877). English cricketer.
1951 - Timothy Bottoms was born. American actor.
1951 - Dana (singer) was born. Irish singer and politician.
1953 - Robin Harris was born (d. 1990). American comedian.
1953 - Horace Panter was born. British musician (The Specials and General Public).
1953 - Robert Parish was born. American basketball player.
1953 - Ron George was born. American politician.

1954 - Alexander Lukashenko was born. President of Belarus.

1954 - David Paymer was born. American actor.
1954 - Alexander Lukashenko was born. President of Belarus.
1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1958 - Martin Jackson was born. British drummer (Swing out Sister).
1958 - Anna Politkovskaya was born (d. 2006). Russian journalist.
1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor.
1960 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon was born (d. 1993). Congressional Medal of Honor recipient.
1960 - Guy A. Lepage was born. Quebec humorist, television host and producer.

1961 - Ladislao Kubala retires from fooball player.
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 - Guy Burgess dies (b. 1911). English-born Soviet spy.
1963 - Paul Oakenfold was born. British disc jockey.

1963 - Michael Chiklis was born. American actor.

1964 - Gavin Fisher was born. British engineer.
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.

1968- Vladimir Malakhov was born. Russian ice hockey player.
1969 - Dimitris Sgouros was born. Greek pianist.

1970 - Paulo Sousa was born. Portuguese footballer.
1970 - Michael Wong Guang Liang was born. Chinese Malaysian singer.

1970 - Del Moore dies (b. 1916). American comedian.
1971 - Lars Frederiksen was born. American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs).

1971 - Nathan Leopold dies (b. 1904). American murderer.
1972 - Cameron Diaz was born. American actress.
1972 - Kaya Brüel was born. Danish actress.
1972 - Pavel Nedved was born. Czech footballer.

1973 - Lisa Ling was born. American journalist.
1974 - A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974 - Aaron Barrett was born. American guitarist and singer (Reel Big Fish).

1974 - Javier Otxoa was born. Spanish cyclist.
1974 - Mark Gottlieb was born. American game designer and web columnist.
1975 - Vasco Gonçalves is deposed from Prime-Minister of Portugal.
1975 - Francisco Morales Bermúdez becomes President of Peru.

1975 - Radhi Jaidi was born. Tunisian footballer.
1976 - Mike Koplove was born. American baseball player.
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
1977 - Shaun Alexander was born. American football player.
1977 - Marlon Byrd was born. American baseball player.
1977 - Kamil Kosowski was born. Polish footballer.
1977 - Jens Ludwig was born. German guitarist.
1978 - Swizz Beatz was born. Rapper/producer.
1979 - Juan Ignacio Chela was born. Argentine tennis player.
1979 - Leon Lopez was born. British actor.
1979 - Niki Chow was born. Hong Kong actress and singer.
1979 - Tavia Yeung was born. Hong Kong actress.

1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai dies (b. 1933). Iranian statesman.
1981 - Vera-Ellen dies (b. 1921). American actress.
1982 - Andy Roddick was born. American tennis player.

1982 - Will Davison was born. Australian racing driver.
1983 - Jun Matsumoto was born. Japanese singer and actor.
1983 - Jonne Aaron was born. Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative (band).
1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1984 - Anthony Ireland was born. Zimbabwean cricketer.
1985 - Richard Duffy was born. Welsh footballer.
1985 - Steven Smith was born. Scottish footballer.
1985 - Taylor Caldwell dies (b. 1900). English-born author.
1986 - Ryan Ross was born. American guitarist and lyricist (Panic! At The Disco).
1988 - Ernests Gulbis was born. Latvian tennis player.

1989 - Seymour Krim dies (b. 1922). American journalist, essayist, and literary critic.

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.
1991 - Jean Tinguely dies (b. 1925). Swiss painter and sculptor.
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.

1993 - Richard Jordan dies (b. 1938). American actor.
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.

1995 - Sterling Morrison dies (b. 1942). American guitarist (The Velvet Underground).
1995 - Fischer Black dies (b. 1938). American economist.
1996 - Christine Pascal dies (b. 1953). French actress and director.
1999 - Raymond Poïvet dies (b. 1910). French comics artist.
2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.
2002 - China ratifica o Protocolo de Kyoto.

2002 - J. Lee Thompson dies (b.1914). English film director.
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 - Luís Fabiano (São Paulo) signs contrat with FC Porto, Portugal.

2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple dies (b. 1906). American astronomer.
2004 - Indian Larry (b. 1949). American motorcycle builder and stuntman.
2006 - Glenn Ford dies (b. 1916). Canadian-born American actor.
2006 - Naguib Mahfouz dies (b. 1911). Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
2007 - Hilly Kristal dies (b. 1932). Owner of CBGBs.
Peru - Saint Rose of Lima's Day.
Turkey - Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922).
International Day of the Disappeared.
Feast day of Felix and Adauctus.