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Elderly Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas abdicates after just one year on the throne

Michael VI Bringas (Greek: Μιχαήλ Βρίγγας, romanized: Mikhaḗl Brîngas; died c. 1057), also called Stratiotikos (Greek: Στρατιωτικός, "the military one, the warlike") and the Old (Greek: Γέρων, Geron), reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1056 to 1057.

Battle of al-Funaydiq

The Battle of al-Funaydiq took place on 30 August 1060, between the forces of the Fatimid Caliphate under Nasir al-Dawla Ibn Hamdan, and the forces of the renegade Mirdasid chieftain of the Banu Kilab, Mahmud ibn Nasr, who aimed to capture Aleppo. The battle was a comprehensive defeat for the Fatimids after their Bedouin allies switched sides, resulting in the capture of Ibn Hamdan and most of his commanders.

Siege of Jacob's Ford

The siege of Jacob's Ford was a victory of the Muslim Sultan Saladin over an unnamed Templar Castellan of Jacob's Ford. It occurred in August 1179, when Saladin conquered and destroyed Chastelet, a new border castle built by the Knights Templar at Jacob's Ford on the upper Jordan River, a historic passage point between the Golan Heights and north Galilee.

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Battle of Lake Poyang

The Battle of Lake Poyang (Chinese: 鄱陽湖之戰; pinyin: Póyáng Hú Zhīzhàn) was a naval battle which took place (30 August – 4 October 1363) between the rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang during the Red Turban Rebellion which led to the fall of the Yuan dynasty. Chen Youliang besieged Nanchang with a large fleet on Lake Poyang, one of China's largest freshwater lakes, and Zhu Yuanzhang met his force with a smaller fleet.

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People's Republic of China

Siege of Kőszeg

The siege of Kőszeg (Hungarian: Kőszeg ostroma) or siege of Güns (Turkish: Güns Kuşatması), also known as the German campaign (Turkish: Alman Seferi) was a siege of Kőszeg (German: Güns) in the Western Kingdom of Hungary which ruled by Ferdinand I, a Habsburg king, that took place in 1532.

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With the papal bull Eius qui immobilis, Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England from the Catholic Church for approving the Acts of Supremacy, although the bull is likely never published

The Acts of Supremacy are two acts passed by the Parliament of England in the 16th century that established the English monarchs as the head of the Church of England; two similar laws were passed by the Parliament of Ireland establishing the English monarchs as the head of the Church of Ireland. The 1534 act declared King Henry VIII and his successors as the Supreme Head of the Church, replacing the Pope.

Siege of Paris (1590)

The siege of Paris (7 May – 30 August 1590) took place during the French Wars of Religion when the French Royal Army under Henry of Navarre, and supported by the Huguenots, failed to capture the city of Paris from the Catholic League. Paris was finally relieved from the siege by an international Catholic-Spanish army under the command of Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma.

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King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, until his death in 1625.

Palatinate campaign

The Palatinate campaign (30 August 1620 – 27 August 1623), also known as the Spanish conquest of the Palatinate or the Palatinate phase of the Thirty Years' War, was a campaign conducted by the Imperial army of the Holy Roman Empire against the Protestant Union in the Lower Palatinate, during the Thirty Years' War.

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Germany

Battle of Batočina

The Battle of Batočina (Serbian: Битка код Баточине) was fought on 29–30 August 1689 near the town of Batočina in the Sanjak of Smederevo (now in central Serbia), between forces of the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire during the Great Turkish War (1683–1699). The Serbian Militia under the command of Pavle Nestorović as a vanguard unit of the Habsburg army was victorious against a vanguard unit of the Ottoman army during the battle.

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Treaty of Nystad

The Treaty of Nystad, or the Treaty of Uusikaupunki, was the last peace treaty of the Great Northern War of 1700–1721. It was concluded between the Tsardom of Russia and the Swedish Empire on 10 September [O.S. 30 August] 1721 in the then Swedish town of Nystad (Uusikaupunki, in the south-west of present-day Finland). Sweden had settled with the other parties in Stockholm (1719 and 1720) and in Frederiksborg (1720).

The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.

Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf

The Battle of Gross Jägersdorf (Gross-Jägersdorf; 30 August 1757) was a victory for the Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin over a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War. This was the first battle in which Russia engaged during the Seven Years' War. Despite the tactical success, supply problems made a successful advance further into East Prussia impractical.

Battle of Nauheim

The Battle of Nauheim (also known as the Battle of the Johannisberg or Johannesberg) took place during the Seven Years' War near Bad Nauheim in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel on 30 August 1762. French troops under the command of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé defeated Hanoverian and British troops under the command of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick.

Vlieter incident

In the Vlieter incident of 30 August 1799 a Batavian Navy fleet under Schout-bij-nacht Samuel Story surrendered to the Royal Navy. The incident occurred during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in the tidal trench between Texel and the mainland that was known as De Vlieter, near Wieringen.

Gabriel's Rebellion

Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before its execution, and Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith who planned the event, and twenty-five of his followers were hanged. Gabriel's planned uprising was notable not because of its results—the rebellion was quelled before it could begin—but because of its potential for mass chaos and widespread violence.

United States

Battle of Grönvikssund

The Battle of Grönvikssund was fought between Sweden and Russia during the Finnish War 1808–09.

Janissary revolt in Tunisia

The Janissary revolt in Tunisia took place on 30 August 1811 and pitted the Janissaries — Turkish militias — against the forces of the Beylik of Tunis.

Tunisia

Fort Mims massacre

The Battle at Fort Mims occurred on 30 August 1813 during the Creek War, when a force of Creek Indians, belonging to the "Red Sticks" faction under the command of head warriors Peter McQueen and William Weatherford, or Lamochattee (Red Eagle), stormed the fort and defeated the militia garrison. After the defeat of the garrison there ensued a massacre and almost all of the remaining Lower Creek, white settlers, and militia at Fort Mims were killed. The fort was a stockade with a blockhouse surrounding the house and outbuildings of the settler Samuel Mims, located about 35 miles north of present-day Mobile, Alabama.

Mobile, Alabama, United States

Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded

Melbourne ( MEL-bərn, locally [ˈmæɫbən] ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia. The city's name generally refers to a 9,993-square-kilometre (3,858 sq mi) area, comprising an urban agglomeration of 30 local government areas. The name is also used specifically to refer to the local government area, also named the City of Melbourne, whose administrative area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds.

The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

Houston ( HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States. It is the fourth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 2.3 million at the 2020 census. The Greater Houston metropolitan area, at 7.8 million residents, is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area in the nation and second-most populous in Texas.

Battle of Osawatomie

The Battle of Osawatomie was an armed engagement that occurred on August 30, 1856, when 250–400 pro-slavery Border ruffians, led by John W. Reid, attacked the town of Osawatomie, Kansas, which had been settled largely by anti-slavery Free-Staters. Reid was intent on destroying the Free-State settlement and then moving on to Topeka and Lawrence to do more of the same.

Battle of Richmond

The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, fought August 29–30, 1862, was one of the most complete Confederate victories in the American Civil War by Major General Edmund Kirby Smith against Union major general William "Bull" Nelson's forces, which were defending the town. It was the first major battle in the Kentucky Campaign. The battle took place on and around what is now the grounds of the Blue Grass Army Depot, outside Richmond, Kentucky.

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

Battle of Beaumont

The Battle of Beaumont on 30 August 1870 was won by Prussia during the Franco-Prussian War. It was fought between Fifth French Corps d'Armee under General Pierre Louis Charles de Failly, and the IV and XII (Royal Saxon) Army Corps under Prince George of Saxony (the XII Army Corps was all-Saxon, while the IV Army Corps was a mix of regiments from Anhalt, Prussian Saxony and the Thuringian states) along with the I Royal Bavarian Corps under general Ludwig Freiherr von der Tann. The French were surprised in their cantonments and driven back upon Mouzon, with losses of 4,800 men and 42 guns to the Germans' 3,500.

Beaumont-en-Argonne, France

Battle of Orihuela (1873)

The Battle of Orihuela took place in Spain on August 30, 1873, between the forces of the Canton of Cartagena, led by Antonio Gálvez, and the government forces, led by the military governor Ruiz Piñero and Mariano Artés Campillo. The fight ended with victory for the cantonalists and resulted in Orihuela's adherence to the revolutionary cause.

Spain

Jowaki Expedition

The Jowaki Expedition was a British punitive expedition in India, occurring between 1877 and 1878. It started when the British government in India proposed to reduce the payment of the Jowaki Afridi tribe in the Northwest Frontier. The Jowaki were paid to guard in the Kohat Pass and in retaliation for a reduction in payment they raided British territory. The expedition ended in January 1878 when tensions died down.

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Battle of Cibecue Creek

The Battle of Cibecue Creek was an engagement of the Apache Wars, fought in August 1881 between the United States and White Mountain Apaches in Arizona, at Cibecue Creek on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. After an army expedition of scouts, U.S. Army soldiers 'arrested' a prominent Cibecue Apache medicine man named Nock-ay-det-klinne. The U.S. Army soldiers were taking Nock-ay-det-klinné back to the fort when they were ambushed by Apache warriors.

United States

Battle of San Juan del Monte

The Battle of San Juan del Monte, took place on 30 August 1896. It is considered the first real battle of the Philippine revolution, which sought Philippine independence from Spain. The first battle cry of the Katipunan coincided with the pealing of the church bell at nine on the night of August 29, 1896.

Philippines

Battle of Noveleta

The Battle of Noveleta known as Battle of Calero Bridge was a major battle during the Philippine revolution and was one of the first engagements of the revolution in Cavite. In the latter part of the revolution, Noveleta played a key role for the Magdalo and Magdiwang factions. From its capture by the Magdiwang at the start of the revolution, various battles were fought and won by Filipino rebels in Cavite.

Philippines

Siege of Santa Cruz

The siege of Santa Cruz was launched by Filipino forces led by General Paciano Rizal, brother of political activist and writer Jose Rizal against a Spanish garrison in Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines. The siege took place until the garrison finally surrendered to the besieging Filipino force. It took place between 24 June and 30 August 1898, during the waning days of the Philippine Revolution.

Philippines

1905 Copa de Honor MCBA Final

The 1905 Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires was the final that decided the champion of the first edition of this National cup of Argentina. In the match, held in Sociedad Sportiva Argentina, Alumni defeated Quilmes 1–0 in extra time, becoming the first winner of this competition.

Argentina

1906 Tie Cup final

The 1906 Tie Cup final was the final match to decide the winner of the Tie Cup, the 4th edition of the international competition organised by the Argentine and Uruguayan Associations together. For the fifth time since 1900, there were two Argentine teams in the final, Alumni and Belgrano A.C., both from the Belgrano neighborhood, that also had a strong rivalry. The match was held in the former Guido y Sarmiento Stadium of Quilmes Atlético Club on 30 August 1906.

Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott

The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At c.505 million years old (middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints. The rock unit is a black shale and crops out at several localities near the town of Field in Yoho National Park and the Kicking Horse Pass.

Battle of Tannenberg

The Battle of Tannenberg, also known as the Second Battle of Tannenberg, was fought between Russia and Germany between 26 and 30 August 1914, the first month of World War I. The battle resulted in the encirclement and the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army by the German 8th Army and the suicide of its commanding general, Alexander Samsonov. A series of follow-up battles (First Masurian Lakes) led to the ousting of the Russian 1st Army from East Prussia. The outcome brought considerable prestige to the German army commander, General Paul von Hindenburg, and his rising staff officer, General Erich Ludendorff.

Olsztyn, Poland

Battle of St. Quentin (1914)

The Battle of St. Quentin (also called the First Battle of Guise, French: 1ere Bataille de Guise) was fought from 29 to 30 August 1914, during the First World War.

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France

Occupation of German Samoa

The Occupation of Samoa was the takeover – and subsequent administration – of the Pacific colony of German Samoa by New Zealand during World War I. It started in late August 1914 with landings by the Samoa Expeditionary Force from New Zealand. The landings were unopposed and the New Zealanders took possession of Samoa for the New Zealand Government on behalf of King George V.

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Battle of Gnila Lipa

The Battle of Gnila Lipa took place in early World War I on 29–30 August 1914, when the Imperial Russian Army invaded Galicia and engaged the defending Austro-Hungarian Army. It was part of a larger series of battles known collectively as the Battle of Galicia. The battle ended in a defeat of the Austro-Hungarian forces.

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Battle of the Scarpe (1918)

The Battle of the Scarpe was a World War I battle that took place during the Hundred Days Offensive between 26 and 30 August 1918.

France

Widnes by-election, 1919

The Widnes by-election of 1919 was held on 30 August 1919. The by-election was held due to the elevation to the peerage of the incumbent Coalition Conservative MP, William Hall Walker. It was won by the Labour candidate Arthur Henderson.

United Kingdom

1921 Victorian state election

The 1921 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Tuesday 30 August 1921 to elect the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

Battle of Dumlupınar

The Battle of Dumlupınar (Greek: Μάχη του Τουμλού Μπουνάρ, romanized: Máchi tou Toumloú Bounár, Turkish: Dumlupınar (Meydan) Muharebesi, lit. 'Dumlupınar (Field) Battle'), also known as Field Battle of the Commander-in-Chief (Turkish: Başkumandanlık Meydan Muharebesi) in Turkey, was one of the important battles in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) (part of the Turkish War of Independence). The battle was fought from 26 to 30 August 1922 near Dumlupınar, Kütahya in Turkey.

Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence).

Second Vienna Award

The Second Vienna Award was the second of two territorial disputes that were arbitrated by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. On 30 August 1940, they assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania, including all of Maramureș and part of Crișana, from the Kingdom of Romania to the Kingdom of Hungary.

Tighina Agreement

The Tighina Agreement (Romanian: Acordul de la Tighina; German: Tighiner Abkommen) was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Romania about administration, economy and security issues of the Transnistria Governorate that entered into force on 30 August 1941. It was signed during World War II, while the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union was taking place. The Tiraspol Agreement through which Romania received the region had entered in force shortly before, on 19 August.

Battle of Alam el Halfa

The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Panzerarmee Afrika (Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel), attempted an envelopment of the British Eighth Army (Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery). In Unternehmen Brandung (Operation Surf), the last big Axis offensive of the Western Desert Campaign, Rommel intended to defeat the Eighth Army before Allied reinforcements arrived.

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Egypt

Operation Rübezahl

Operation Rübezahl (German: Unternehmen Rübezahl) was the name of 3 German anti-partisan operations in Yugoslavia during World War II. The first operation announced the beginning of a strategic retreat by Nazi German troops from Serbia after the front change of Romania and Bulgaria.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels.

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France

Borneo campaign

The Borneo campaign or Second Battle of Borneo was the last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific Area during World War II to liberate Japanese-held British Borneo and Dutch Borneo. Designated collectively as Operation Oboe, a series of amphibious assaults between 1 May and 21 July 1945 were conducted by the Australian I Corps, under Lieutenant-General Leslie Morshead, against Imperial Japanese forces who had been occupying the island since late 1941 – early 1942.

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Indonesia

1947 Victorian local elections

The 1947 Victorian local elections were held on 30 August 1947 to elect the councils of the local government areas in Victoria, Australia. Until the 1994 reforms introduced by the Kennett state government, all local elections were staggered, with not all councillors up for election each year.

Australia

1959 South Vietnamese parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in South Vietnam on 30 August 1959, resulting in an overwhelming victory for President Ngô Đình Diệm and the government. The regime won all but two of the 123 seats in the National Assembly, taken by five pro-government political parties and pro-government independent candidates. The elections allowed some liberalization in terms of freedom of speech, but the Diệm regime continued to maintain rigid control over the election process.

1962 Bruneian district council election

District council elections were held for the first time in Brunei on 30 August 1962. A total of 55 seats on the four district councils were contested by the Brunei People's Party (55 candidates), the Brunei National Organisation (6), the Brunei United Party (1) and eighteen independents. The BPP won 54 seats (32 uncontested), whilst the sole independent elected later joined the party.

Brunei

1969 Indian vice presidential election

The 1969 Indian vice presidential election was held on 30 August 1969. Gopal Swarup Pathak won the election to become the fourth vice president of India. The election was occurred since the sitting VP, Varahagiri Venkata Giri resigned to contest the presidential election after the death of incumbent President Zakir Husain.

India

1971 Alberta general election

The 1971 Alberta general election was the seventeenth general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada on August 30, 1971, to elect seventy-five members of the Alberta Legislature to form the 17th Alberta Legislative Assembly. The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta led by Peter Lougheed won 49 of 75 seats with 46.4 per cent of the popular vote in the new legislature to form a majority government.

Canada

1972 British Columbia general election

The 1972 British Columbia general election for the Canadian province of British Columbia was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on July 24, 1972, and held on August 30, 1972. The new legislature met for the first time on October 17, 1972. David Barrett led the social democratic New Democratic Party to victory, winning a majority government.

1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing

On 30 August 1974, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, was bombed, killing eight people and injuring at least 376 others. The bombing was committed by the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a far-left, anti-Japanese militant organization, against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for supplying the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Japan until the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995.

Japan

Zagreb train disaster

The Zagreb train disaster occurred on 30 August 1974 when an express train (number 10410) traveling from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to Dortmund, West Germany, derailed before entering Zagreb Main Station (Croatia), killing 153 people. It was the worst rail accident in Yugoslavia's history and remains one of the worst in Europe's history.

The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated

The first ever World Population Conference was held at the Salle Centrale, Geneva, Switzerland, from 29 August to 3 September 1927. Organized by the forerunner of the United Nations, the League of Nations, and Margaret Sanger; the conference was an attempt to bring together international experts on population, food supply, fertility, migration and health to discuss the problem of human overpopulation.

1980 Israel Super Cup

The 1980 Israel Super Cup was the tenth Israel Super Cup (15th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israel football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup. The match was played between Maccabi Netanya, champions of the 1979–80 Liga Leumit and Hapoel Kfar Saba, winners of the 1979–80 Israel State Cup.

1980 Ms. Olympia

The 1980 Ms. Olympia contest was an International Federation of Bodybuilders Professional Division (IFBB Pro Division) professional female bodybuilding contest. It was the first Ms. Olympia contest held.

Iranian president Mohammad-Ali Rajai and prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar were assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran

Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (Persian: محمدجواد باهنر‎, 5 September 1933 – 30 August 1981) was an Iranian theologian and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Iran for less than one month, in August 1981. On 30 August, Bahonar and other members of Mohammad-Ali Rajai's government were assassinated by Mujahideen-e Khalq.

1982 JSL Cup final

1982 JSL Cup final was the seventh final of the JSL Cup competition. The final was played at Kusanagi Athletic Stadium in Shizuoka on August 30, 1982. Furukawa Electric won the championship.

STS-8

STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program. It also carried the first African-American astronaut to go into space, Guion Bluford.

Aeroflot Flight 5463

Aeroflot Flight 5463 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Chelyabinsk to Almaty which crashed on 30 August 1983 while approaching Almaty. The Tupolev Tu-134A collided with the western slope of Dolan Mountain at an altitude of 690 m (2,260 ft). As a result of the accident, all ninety people on board were killed. Crew error was cited as the cause of the accident.

STS-41-D

STS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on September 5, 1984.

California, United States

1985 Singaporean presidential election

Indirect presidential elections were held in Singapore on 30 August 1985, following the resignation of the incumbent, Devan Nair. During the election, 73 members of Parliament were present and five members were absent. Wee Kim Wee was elected by the Parliament of Singapore. Wee was sworn in as the fourth president on 2 September 1985.

Singapore

1986 Batang Ai by-election

The 1986 Batang Ai by-election is a by-election for the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly state seat of Batang Ai, Malaysia that were held on 29 and 30 August 1986. It was called following the death of the incumbent, Sylvester Langit on 1 June 1986.

Sarawak, Malaysia

1987 Mauritian general election

General elections were held in Mauritius on 30 August 1987. The result was a victory for the Alliance, composed of the Labour Party, the Mauritian Socialist Movement and the Mauritian Social Democrat Party, which won 44 of the 70 seats. The voting system involved twenty constituencies on Mauritius, which each elected three members. Two seats were elected by residents of Rodrigues, and up to eight seats were filled by the "best losers".

Ambush at Drumnakilly

Ambush at Drumnakilly is an Irish rebel song about an event in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland which occurred on August 30, 1988: three volunteers of the Provisional IRA (IRA), brothers Martin and Gerard Harte and Brian Mullin (Bard), were ambushed and killed by the Special Air Service (SAS). The IRA members were attempting to murder a previously identified off-duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment who seemed to be fixing a tyre on a coal lorry. The IRA unit drove up, armed with two AK-47 rifles and a revolver, and were ambushed as they approached by a dozen undercover soldiers, with others manning a heavy machine gun in a nearby derelict building.

County Tyrone, United Kingdom · Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

1989 Greek Super Cup

The 1989 Greek Super Cup was the 4th edition of the Greek Super Cup, an association football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Alpha Ethniki and Greek Cup competitions. The match took place on 30 August 1989 at the Athens Olympic Stadium. The contesting teams were the 1988–89 Alpha Ethniki champions, AEK Athens and the 1988–89 Greek Cup winners, Panathinaikos.

Tatarstan declares sovereignty

Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital and largest city is Kazan, an important cultural centre in Russia. The region's main source of wealth is oil with a strong petrochemical industry.

New Territories West by-election, 1992

The 1992 New Territories West by-election was held on 30 August 1992 after the incumbent Legislative Councillor Ng Ming-yam of New Territories West died of blood cancer on 22 June 1992. It was the second by-election in the constituency since the 1991 general election. The two-time candidate, conservative rural leader Tang Siu-tong defeated Albert Ho Chun-yan, vice chairman of the liberal United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK), and independent Sui See-chun with 51 percent majority, receiving 33,038 votes.

Hong Kong

1992 Supercoppa Italiana

The 1992 Supercoppa Italiana was a match played by the 1991–92 Serie A winners AC Milan and 1991–92 Coppa Italia winners Parma. It took place on 30 August 1992 at the San Siro in Milan, Italy. AC Milan won the match 2–1 to earn their second Supercoppa.

Italy

1993 Philippine House of Representatives special elections

Two special elections (known as "by-elections" elsewhere) to the House of Representatives of the Philippines, the lower house of Congress, were held on August 30, 1993. These were vacancies in the 9th Congress; the winners were to serve the rest of the term, which had ended on June 30, 1995. These were the first special elections since the preceding ones in 1967, the downfall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, and the approval of the 1987 constitution.

Philippines

SummerSlam (1993)

The 1993 SummerSlam was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the sixth annual SummerSlam and took place on Monday, August 30, 1993, at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan and featured 10 televised matches. All three of the WWF's then-active championships were defended at the event.

Michigan, United States

Operation Deliberate Force

Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by NATO, in concert with the UNPROFOR ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), which had threatened and attacked UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War, with the Srebrenica genocide and Markale massacres precipitating the intervention.

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

1997 Northern Territory general election

A general election was held in the Northern Territory on Saturday August 30, 1997, and was won by the incumbent Country Liberal Party (CLP). Shane Stone continued as Chief Minister. During the previous term, the CLP had lost the seat of Fannie Bay to Labor in a by-election. The CLP did not win the seat back, but managed to take MacDonnell from Labor and Nelson after Independent Noel Padgham-Purich retired.

SummerSlam (1998)

SummerSlam (1998) was the eleventh annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and the fourth presented by Stridex. It took place on August 30, 1998, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The main event a Singles match for the WWF Championship between Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Undertaker. Austin won the match via pinfall after a Stunner to retain the WWF Championship. The main match on the undercard featured a ladder match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship between Triple H and The Rock, which Triple H won to win the Intercontinental Championship.

New York, United States · New York City, United States

Operation Kitona

Operation Kitona was a Rwandan/Ugandan offensive that marked the beginning of the Second Congo War. Rwanda hoped to depose Laurent-Désiré Kabila and install a government more favorable to Rwanda's interests by quickly taking control of Kinshasa and the strategic western province of Bas-Congo (today Kongo Central). On August 4, 1998, joint Rwandan and Ugandan forces launched a surprise attack on Kitona airbase in Western Congo using hijacked civilian airliners.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823

Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 was a short haul domestic Brazilian flight from Cruzeiro do Sul and Tarauacá to Rio Branco. On 30 August 2002, the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, registration PT-WRQ, flying the route crashed in heavy rain. Of the 31 aboard, 23 were killed, including all three crew members, and 20 of the 28 passengers.

2002 Iraqi Perseverance Cup

The 2002 Iraqi Perseverance Cup (Arabic: كأس المثابرة العراقي 2002) was the 7th edition of the Iraqi Super Cup. The match was contested between Baghdad rivals Al-Talaba and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya at Al-Shaab Stadium in Baghdad. It was played on 30 August 2002 as a curtain-raiser to the 2002–03 season. Al-Talaba won their first Super Cup title, winning the match 2–1 after golden goal extra time.

Iraq

2002 UEFA Super Cup

The 2002 UEFA Super Cup was played on 30 August 2002 between Real Madrid of Spain and Feyenoord of the Netherlands. Real Madrid qualified by beating Bayer Leverkusen in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final. Feyenoord had made it to the Super Cup after beating Borussia Dortmund in the 2002 UEFA Cup Final. Real Madrid won the match 3–1, securing their first Super Cup win.

Monaco

2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident

On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The nuclear warheads in the missiles were supposed to have been removed before the missiles were taken from their storage bunker.

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United States

2008 Conviasa Boeing 737 crash

A Conviasa Boeing 737-200 (registered as YV102T) ferry flight from Maiquetia, Venezuela to Latacunga, Ecuador crashed into Illiniza Volcano. The aircraft had been stored at Caracas and was being ferried to a new owner. There were three crew on board with no passengers. There were no survivors.

Japanese general election, 2009

A general election for the Japanese House of Representatives was held on August 30, 2009. The opposition Democratic Party (DPJ) defeated the ruling coalition (Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito Party) in a sweeping victory, winning 221 of the 300 electoral districts and receiving 42.4% of the proportional block votes for another 87 seats, a total of 308 seats to only 119 for the LDP (64 districts and 26.7% of the proportional votes). Under Japan's constitution, this result virtually assured DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama would be the next Prime Minister of Japan. He was formally named to the post on September 16, 2009.

Japan

Gabonese presidential election, 2009

Early presidential elections were held in Gabon on 30 August 2009. They took place due to the death of incumbent President Omar Bongo on 8 June, after more than 41 years as the sole president of Gabon. While the constitution stated that interim President Rose Francine Rogombé should organise elections within 30 to 45 days, the Constitutional Court accepted the government's request for a delay due to the circumstances. A total of 23 candidates were approved to contest the elections, although six of them withdrew immediately before election day, reducing the field to 17 candidates.

Gabon

Saxony state election, 2009

State elections took place in Saxony on 30 August 2009, the same day as the Saarland and Thuringia state elections. The election results decided control of the Landtag of Saxony (Saxony's parliament). Minister-President Stanislaw Tillich's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won enough seats in combination with their preferred partners, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) to enter into a coalition government, supplanting the grand coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD). On September 30, 2009 Tillich (CDU) was re-elected to the office of Minister-President in coalition with the FDP.

Saxony, Germany

Thuringian state election, 2009

Thuringia held state elections on 30 August 2009, the same day as the Saarland and Saxony state elections. The election established the composition of the Landtag of Thuringia (Thuringia's parliament). According to the preliminary results, The Left and Social Democratic Party (SPD) together held a bare majority of seats, but a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and SPD was considered possible.

Thuringia, Germany

2009 Saarland state election

The 2009 Saarland state election was held on 30 August 2009 to elect the members of the Landtag of Saarland. It was held on the same day as state elections in Saxony and Thuringia. The incumbent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government led by Minister-President Peter Müller lost its majority. The CDU subsequently formed a coalition with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and The Greens, and Müller was re-elected as Minister-President.

2009 WPS All-Star Game

The 2009 Women's Professional Soccer All-Star Game was the first WPS All-Star Game. In a format similar to that of recent all-star games in Major League Soccer, the WPS All-Stars played Swedish club powerhouse Umeå IK on August 30, 2009, eight days after the league's championship game. The WPS All-Stars defeated their guests 4–2.

United States

2009 Kokang incident

The Kokang incident was a violent series of skirmishes that broke out in August 2009 in Kokang in Myanmar's northern Shan State. Several clashes between ethnic minorities and the Burmese military junta forces (including the Myanmar Armed Forces, also known as Tatmadaw, and the Myanmar Police Force) took place. As a result of the conflict, the MNDAA lost control of the area and as many as 30,000 refugees fled to Yunnan in neighbouring China.

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Myanmar

2011 Phoenix mayoral election

The mayoral election for Phoenix, Arizona, United States, in 2011 was held in a two-round system on August 30, 2011, and November 8, 2011. Greg Stanton, a former city councilman, was elected over Wes Gullett, and took office on January 3, 2012, succeeding Phil Gordon, who held the office of Mayor of Phoenix from 2004 to 2012.

2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish

The 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish was a series of incidents which took place during the months of July and August 2011 across the Line of Control in Kupwara district and Neelam Valley. Both countries gave different accounts of the incident, each accusing the other of initiating the hostilities.

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2013 UEFA Super Cup

The 2013 UEFA Super Cup was the 38th UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. The match featured Bayern Munich, the winners of the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, and Chelsea, the winners of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Eden Arena in Prague, Czech Republic, on 30 August 2013, and was the first to be held away from the Stade Louis II in Monaco since it became a one-legged match in 1998.

Monaco · Prague, Czechia

2013 Deauville American Film Festival

The 39th Deauville American Film Festival took place at Deauville, France from August 30 to September 8, 2013. Steven Soderbergh's drama film Behind the Candelabra served as the opening night film. Snowpiercer by Bong Joon-ho was the closing night film of the festival. The Grand Prix was awarded to Night Moves by Kelly Reichardt.

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France

CMLL Universal Championship (2013)

The CMLL Universal Championship 2013 (Campeonato Universal in Spanish) was a professional wrestling tournament produced by the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion, which took place over three shows between August 23 and September 6, 2013, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The CMLL Universal Championship is an annual tournament of CMLL champions that was first held in 2009.

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Mexico

2013 UAE Super Cup

The 2013 UAE Super Cup was the 12th and the 6th Professional UAE Super Cup, held at the Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi on 30 August 2013 between Al Ain, winners of the 2012–13 UAE Pro-League and 2012–13 UAE President's Cup winners Al Ahli. Al Ahli won the game 3–2 on penalties.

United Arab Emirates

UFC 177

UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Soto was a mixed martial arts event held on August 30, 2014, at the Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, California.

2014 Lesotho political crisis

On 30 August 2014, Lesotho's Prime Minister Tom Thabane alleged that a coup d'état had been launched against him. This followed a previous allegation which caused him to suspend parliament over possible extra-constitutional manoeuvres. It also followed pressure from South Africa to maintain the democratic process. The next day, Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing assumed responsibility for running the government.

Battle of Los Angeles (2015)

Battle of Los Angeles (2015) was the eleventh Battle of Los Angeles professional wrestling tournament produced by Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). It was a three-night event which took place on August 28, August 29 and August 30, 2015, at the American Legion Post #308 in Reseda, Los Angeles, California. It was a twenty-four man tournament, which concluded with a three-way elimination match, in which Zack Sabre Jr. defeated Chris Hero and Mike Bailey.

California, United States

2016 Glendale, Arizona, mayoral election

Glendale, Arizona, held an election for mayor on August 30, 2016. It saw the reelection of Jerry Weiers.

2016 Miami-Dade County mayoral election

The 2016 Miami-Dade County mayoral election took place on November 8, 2016. After a primary on August 30, incumbent Mayor Carlos A. Giménez defeated Miami-Dade School Board member Raquel Regalado on November 8. The election was officially nonpartisan. The race was marred by controversy, including attempts by Regalado to take Giménez off the ballot and accusations that Giménez was responsible for flyers suggesting Regalado was in association with then Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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2016 Volusia County Chair election

The 2016 Volusia County Chair election was held on November 8, 2016, following a primary election on August 30, 2016, to elect the Volusia County Chair. Incumbent County Chair Jason Davis ran for re-election to a second term, and was challenged by three opponents: Ormond Beach Mayor Ed Kelley, Orange City Mayor Tom Laputka, and activist Greg Gimbert. Though the race was formally nonpartisan, all four candidates were Republicans.

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United States

PFL 7 (2018)

The PFL 7 mixed martial arts event for the 2018 season of the Professional Fighters League was held on August 30, 2018, at the Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was the seventh and final regular season event of 2018 before the playoffs.

New Jersey, United States

CMLL International Gran Prix (2019)

The CMLL International Gran Prix (2019) was a lucha libre, or professional wrestling, tournament produced and scripted by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; "World Wrestling Council" in Spanish) which took place on August 30, 2019 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico, CMLL's main venue. The 2019 International Gran Prix was the sixteenth time CMLL has held an International Gran Prix tournament since 1994.

Mexico City, Mexico

2019 Western Michoacán clashes

The 2019 Western Michoacán clashes were a series of armed confrontations on 30 August 2019 between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the El Abuelo Cartel based in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, Mexico. The clashes began early in the morning, when CJNG launched an attack on El Abuelo after declaring war on the El Abuelo Cartel and stating their intentions to expand into Michoacán and clear the state of El Abuelo.

Michoacán, Mexico

Screenplay Film Festival

Screenplay is an international film festival held annually in Shetland, Scotland. The festival is curated by the film critic Mark Kermode and the film historian Linda Ruth Williams in partnership with Shetland Arts. Since 2012 the festival has been hosted by Mareel arts venue in Lerwick.

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United Kingdom

Payback (2020)

The 2020 Payback was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brands, Raw and SmackDown. It was the sixth Payback and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it took place on August 30, 2020, from the WWE ThunderDome, a bio-secure bubble that at the time was hosted at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.

Florida, United States

2020 A-League Grand Final

The 2020 A-League Grand Final was the fifteenth A-League Grand Final, the championship-deciding match of the Australian A-League and the culmination of the 2019–20 season. The match was originally scheduled to be played in May 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was played on 30 August 2020 between Sydney FC and Melbourne City at Bankwest Stadium in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta, New South Wales.

Sydney, Australia

2020 UEFA Women's Champions League final

The 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 19th season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was played on 30 August 2020 at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián, Spain, between German club VfL Wolfsburg and French club Lyon.

San Sebastián, Spain

24th Lima Film Festival

The 24th Lima Film Festival, organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, took place from 21 to 30 August 2020 in Lima, Peru. The awards were announced on 30 August 2020, with The Fever winning the Trophy Spondylus.

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Peru

2020–2021 US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. In February 2020, the first Trump administration and the Taliban signed the United States–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar, which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments, provided for the withdrawal of all NATO forces from Afghanistan by 1 May 2021.

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2023 Gabonese coup d'état

On 30 August 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Gabon shortly after the announcement that incumbent president Ali Bongo had won the general election held on 26 August. It was the eighth successful coup to occur in West and Central Africa since 2020. The coup's leader Brice Oligui Nguema is part of the Bongo family and overthrew his cousin Ali Bongo.

Gabon

Capital Collision (2024)

Capital Collision (2024) was a professional wrestling event produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on August 30, 2024, at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C. This was the third event to be held under the Capital Collision name.

Washington, D.C., United States

TNA Emergence (2024)

The 2024 Emergence was a professional wrestling event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. It took place on August 30, 2024, at Old Forester's Paristown Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, and aired on TNA+. It was the fifth event under the Emergence chronology. Eight matches were contested at the event, including two on the Countdown to Emergence pre-show.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

2024 Egypt Cup final

The 2024 Egypt Cup final was the final match of the 2023–24 Egypt Cup, the 92nd edition of the competition since its establishment in 1921. It was played between Pyramids and ZED on 30 August 2024 at Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria. Both teams were looking to win their first ever Egypt Cup title.

2025 DFB-Supercup Frauen

The 2025 DFB-supercup, known as Google Pixel Supercup der Frauen for sponsorship reasons, was the eighth iteration of the German women's super cup, contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and national cup competition. The match was played on 30 August 2025 at the Wildparkstadion in Karlsruhe. As Bayern Munich won both the 2024–25 Bundesliga and the 2024–25 DFB-Pokal, they faced VfL Wolfsburg as the runners-up of the Bundesliga.