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, 2024 is the 243rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Friday.
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
- 1574 –Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
- 1791 –HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
- 1800 –Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
- 1813 –Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
- 1862 –American Civil War – Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
- 1873 –Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
- 1897 –The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
- 1942 –World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
- 1945 –The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
- 1956 –The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
Who were born on August 30?
- 1797 –Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
- 1813 –Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (d. 1862)
- 1852 –Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical and organic chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1911)
- 1860 –Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
- 1939 –Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
- 1968 –Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1970 –Michael Wong, Malaysia-born Chinese singer
- 1973 –Lisa Ling, American journalist
- 1974 –Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
- 1977 –Elden Henson, American actor
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