Historical events on August 30
AUGUST 30, 1959
South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed in to vote multiple times for President Ngô Đình Diệm's candidate.
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered
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AUGUST 30, 1984
Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program
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AUGUST 30, 70
First Jewish–Roman War: Roman forces led by Titus set fire to the Second Temple during the siege of Jerusalem.
AD 70 (LXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the
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AUGUST 30, 1574
Guru Ram Das (pictured) became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.
Guru Ram Das, sometimes spelled as Guru Ramdas, was the fourth of the ten Sikh gurus. He was born to a family
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AUGUST 30, 1990
Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing pornographic material.
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts against
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AUGUST 30, 1959
Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of Indonesia.
Abdul Muis, was an Indonesian writer, journalist and nationalist. He advocated for Indonesia's independence from the Netherlands. He was the first person
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AUGUST 30, 1992
German racing driver Michael Schumacher won the Belgian Grand Prix, the first of his 91 Formula One Grand Prix wins.
Michael Schumacher is a German former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1991 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012.
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AUGUST 30, 1914
World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army by the German 8th Army.
World War I or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the
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AUGUST 30, 1942
Second World War: German field marshal Erwin Rommel launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert campaign, attacking British positions near El Alamein, Egypt.
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all
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AUGUST 30, 2007
A heavy bomber that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles flew them from North Dakota to Louisiana before they were recognized.
Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry and longest range of their era. Archetypal heavy
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AUGUST 30, 1942
British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against their Japanese captors, who required them to pledge not to escape.
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed
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AUGUST 30, 1974
An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.
Gastarbeiter are foreign or migrant workers, particularly those who had moved to West Germany between 1955 and 1973, seeking work as part
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AUGUST 30, 1594
King James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.
James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as
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