History Events on August 30

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

#Ernest_Shackleton

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

#Bosnian_War

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

#Ruby_Ridge

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

#Tokugawa_Ieyasu

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

#Tom_Thabane

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

#Vietnam

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

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

#Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.

#HMS_Pandora_(1779)

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

#Battle_of_Alam_el_Halfa

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

#World_War_I

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

#Allied_Control_Council

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

#Anne,_Princess_Royal_and_Princess_of_Orange

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

#RMS_Queen_Mary

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

#August_Revolution

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

#STS-41-D

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

Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

#Guru_Ram_Das

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

#Moscow-Washington_hotline

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

#Julius_von_Payer

The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

#Commander-in-chief

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

#American_Civil_War

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

#Battle_of_Dumlup?nar

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

The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.

#Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong

Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

#Burgess_Shale

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

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

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

#Titus

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

#Second_Vienna_Award

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

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

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

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

#Belgrade

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

#Peter_III_of_Aragon

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

#Thurgood_Marshall

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

#Pope_Paul_II

A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.

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.

Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.

First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.

Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.

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.

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.