30 August
Notable Births
Fábio Carvalho (footballer, born 2002)
b. 2002
Portuguese footballer
Drake Maye
b. 2002
American football player (born 2002)
Mikal Bridges
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Trevor Jackson (performer)
b. 1996
American actor and singer (born 1996)
Monika Paulikienė
b. 1994
Lithuanian beach volleyball player (born 1994)
Hur Young-ji
b. 1994
South Korean singer (born 1994)
Kwon So-hyun
b. 1994
South Korean actress (born 1994)
Jessica Henwick
b. 1992
British actress (born 1992)
Seriki Audu
b. 1991
Nigerian footballer (1991–2014)
Jacqueline Cako
b. 1991
American tennis player
Liam Cooper
b. 1991
Scotland international footballer (born 1991)
Bebe Rexha
b. 1989
American singer and songwriter (born 1989)
Ernests Gulbis
b. 1988
Latvian tennis player
Theo Hutchcraft
b. 1986
English musician (born 1986)
Ryan Ross
b. 1986
American guitarist (born 1986)
Duane Brown
b. 1985
American football player (born 1985)
Richard Duffy
b. 1985
Welsh footballer (born 1985)
Leisel Jones
b. 1985
Australian swimmer (born 1985)
Éva Risztov
b. 1985
Hungarian swimmer (born 1985)
Eamon Sullivan
b. 1985
Australian swimmer
Notable Deaths
Tūheitia
d. 2024
Māori King from 2006 to 2024
Fatman Scoop
d. 2024
American hip-hop artist (1968–2024)
Mikhail Gorbachev
d. 2022
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
Valerie Harper
d. 2019
American actress (1939–2019)
Louise Hay
d. 2017
American author (1926–2017)
Wes Craven
d. 2015
American filmmaker (1939–2015)
Edward Fadeley
d. 2015
American judge (1929–2015)
M. M. Kalburgi
d. 2015
Indian scholar and writer (1938–2015)
Marvin Mandel
d. 2015
56th Governor of Maryland
Oliver Sacks
d. 2015
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
Charles Bowden
d. 2014
American writer (1945–2014)
Bipan Chandra
d. 2014
Indian historian (1928–2014)
Igor Decraene
d. 2014
Belgian cyclist
Seamus Heaney
d. 2013
Irish poet (1939–2013)
William C. Campbell (golfer)
d. 2013
American amateur golfer (1923–2013)
Allan Gotthelf
d. 2013
American philosopher
J. C. Bailey
d. 2010
American professional wrestler
Alain Corneau
d. 2010
French film director and writer (1943–2010)
Francisco Varallo
d. 2010
Argentine footballer (1910–2010)
Killer Kowalski
d. 2008
Canadian professional wrestler (1926–2008)
On This Day in History
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2023
Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.
2023 Gabonese coup d'état
2021
The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.
2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
2014
Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
Tom Thabane
2008
A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
Conviasa
2002
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
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.
Second Congo War
1995
Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
Bosnian War
1992
The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
Ruby Ridge standoff
1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1984
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
STS-41-D
1983
Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
Aeroflot Flight 5463
1983
STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.
STS-8
1981
President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing. The office of Iran's Prosecutor General blames the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
1974
A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
Belgrade
1974
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
1974
The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.
World Population Conference
1967
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Thurgood Marshall
1963
The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
Moscow–Washington hotline
1962
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
1959
South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.
Phan Quang Đán