Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 30
August 30, 2025 is the 242nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Virgo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 30
- 1363 –Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
- 1590 –Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
- 1800 –Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
- 1897 –The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
- 1909 –Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- 1918 –Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
- 1945 –The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
- 1945 –The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
- 1967 –Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1974 –A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
Who were born on August 30?
- 1720 –Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
- 1852 –Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1911)
- 1913 –Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- 1939 –Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
- 1943 –Tal Brody, American-born Israeli basketball player
- 1951 –Timothy Bottoms, American actor
- 1970 –Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager
- 1974 –Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
- 1981 –Germán Legarreta, American actor
- 1982 –Will Davison, Australian racing driver
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