What happend on 30th August

29.08
31.08
1914

Battle of Tannenberg

1909

Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott

1873

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

1862

American Civil War: Union forces are defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run

1862

American Civil War: Battle of Richmond, Kentucky: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright

1850

Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

1813

Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.

1813

Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance

1590

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

1574

Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master