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Ephemeris of August 30:

In the Gregorian Calendar, August 30 is the 242th
(Two-hundredth fortieth second) day of the year.

Quote of the Day…

You leave books in the car and nobody steals them, even if it’s open.

— Esther Tusquets
Spanish editor and writer (born August 30, 1936)

Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

August 30 – A Day as Today – Events

• 1282: in the town of Trapani, the Aragonese king Pedro III disembarks his army of Almogávares shouting “Wake up Ferro!” The king of Sicily, Carlos de Anjou, left the battlefield allowing the Aragonese king to go to Palermo (Sicily) to be crowned king of Sicily.
• 1483: in Spain, the Catholic Monarchs recognize and expand the Luliana University on the island of Mallorca.
• 1531: in Colombia, the Spanish Jerónimo de Melo founds the village of Malambo.
• 1791: the ship HMS Pandora, which was looking for the HMS Bounty, sinks after having run aground the day before in the Great Barrier Reef.
• 1821: in Punta del Médano (Argentina), the Chilean military man José Miguel Carrera is captured by the forces of Argentine Colonel José Albino Gutiérrez.
• 1825: the city of El Cerrito is founded in Colombia.
• 1848: Costa Rica becomes independent from the Federal Republic of Central America.
• 1849: in Chile, the City of Coronel, VIII Region of Biobío, is founded under the name Villa del Coronel.
• 1855: Argentina and Chile sign a treaty of peace, commerce and navigation.
• 1863: the town of Pereira is founded in Colombia.
• 1874: the Government of the United Kingdom approves the maximum working day of 10 hours and the prohibition of the work of children under 9 years of age.
• 1878: a flood occurs in Miskolc (Hungary). The Sajó river rises one meter per minute, preventing most of the population from escaping. About 500 people are drowned. There had already been several serious floods in 1691, 1788, 1813, 1845 and 1853, but this was the worst.
• 1879: Thomas A. Edison introduces his first telephone set.
• 1914: the Battle of Tannenberg ends; the German 8th Army, under General Paul von Hindenburg, defeats two Russian armies. The 1st under General Paul von Rennenkampf and 2nd Army under General Aleksandr Samsónov – who dies in battle.
• 1918: In the Soviet Union, Fanni Kaplán shoots Lenin after a speech in Moscow. As a result, the Council of People’s Commissars initiates the so-called Red Terror in early September.
• 1921: the International Congress on the Rights of Man is held in The Hague (Netherlands).
• 1922: near Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, the Battle of Dumlupinar ends; last battle of the Greek-Turkish War.
• 1923: in Germany – under the Weimar Republic – inflation causes one US dollar to be exchanged for 10 million German marks.
• 1926: the German swimmer Ernst Vierkotter crosses the English Channel in the record time of 12 hours and 42 minutes.
• 1930: In Las Flores, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, the Club Ferrocarril Roca, known as Ferro de Las Flores, is founded.
• 1933: 400 km northwest of Asunción (Paraguay) ―in the framework of the Chaco War―, the Battle of Campo Grande begins, in which a Paraguayan division will manage to encircle two Bolivian regiments, which will surrender on September 15 from 1933.
• 1942: the Battle of Alam el Halfa begins; the Panzerarmee Afrika, a German-Italian force commanded by Erwin Rommel tries to engulf Bernard Montgomery’s Eighth British Army.
• 1945: the Mexican Government recognizes the Government of the Spanish Republic (in exile due to the Franco dictatorship).
• 1952: in Buenos Aires, President Juan Domingo Perón prohibits Francisco Cambó’s paintings from leaving Argentina.
• 1957: in the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 4:39 a.m. (local time), the United States detonates its Franklin Prime atomic bomb 230 m underground, from 4.7 kilotons. It is the 106th bomb out of 1,129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1957: in Lima (Peru), Santa Rosa de Lima is appointed patron of the National Police of Peru.
• 1958: in the South Atlantic, 2750 km west of Cape Town (South Africa) and 2000 km east of the South Georgia Islands, the United States Government ―at 3:18 (local time) in the morning― launches a rocket from a ship, with an atomic bomb that is exploded in space, 256 km above sea level. It is the second test (of three) of the Argus secret operation.
• 1961: in Spain, Ladislao Kubala retires as a soccer player.
• 1974: In the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:00 a.m. (local time), the United States detonates its 160-foot Portmanteau atomic bomb 655 m underground. kilotons. It is the 826th bomb out of 1,129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1975: in Peru, after yesterday overthrowing the coup general Juan Velasco Alvarado, the also coup general Francisco Morales Bermúdez proclaims himself president.
• 1984: in Cape Canaveral (United States), NASA launches the space shuttle Discovery.
• 1984: in the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:45 a.m. (local time), the United States detonates its Dolcetto and Wexford atomic bombs 365 m underground, of 20 and 15 kilotons respectively. With bombs # 1016 and # 1017 of the 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1987: Canadian athlete Ben Johnson becomes the fastest man in the world, setting a mark of 9.83 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle in Rome.
• 1988: In the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:00 a.m. (local time), the United States detonates its atomic bomb No. 1081 489 m underground , Bullfrog, 33 kilotons.
• 1991: Azerbaijan becomes independent from the Soviet Union.
• 1992: Reading Festival is celebrated with a legendary performance by Nirvana (band)
• 1993: in Casablanca (Morocco) King Hassan II inaugurates the Hassan II mosque, the largest after Mecca.
• 1994: the Mexican singer Luis Miguel, releases his tenth studio album, entitled Segundo romance.
• 1994: the Mexican singer José José, releases his 28th studio album titled Grandeza mexicana, produced again by the Spanish singer-songwriter Manuel Alejandro.
• 1995: Operation Deliberate Force begins, in which Bosnia and Herzegovina is bombed to fight the Army of the Republika Srpska.
• 1996: in Putumayo (Colombia), the FARC guerrillas take over the Las Delicias military base in Puerto Leguízamo, leaving 28 soldiers dead, 16 wounded and 60 kidnapped.
• 1997: Hattrick, one of the most popular games in the world, is created on the Internet. Until 2007 it had 0.9 million users.
• 1999: 95% of the population of East Timor, occupied by Indonesia, vote for independence.
• 2005: in Pereira (Colombia) the Lucy Tejada Cultural Center is inaugurated.
• 2012: In Hualien County, Taiwan, the Britten-Norman Islander accident occurred in Taiwan in 2012.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

August 30 – A Day as Today – Births

• 1334: Pedro I the Cruel, Castilian king (d. 1369).
• 1657: Philipp Peter Roos, German painter (d. 1706).
• 1748: Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825).
• 1778: Tomás de Allende, Argentine military and official (d. 1815).
• 1791: Ramón de Santillán, Spanish politician and military man (d. 1863).
• 1797: Mary Shelley, British writer, author of the novel “Frankenstein” (d. 1851).
• 1811: Théophile Gautier, French poet and novelist (d. 1872).
• 1844: José Nicolás Puccio, Argentine businessman (d. 1894).
• 1844: Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer (d. 1904).
• 1852: Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, Dutch chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize Winner (d. 1911).
• 1854: Enrique Creel Cuilty, Mexican politician (d. 1931).
• 1855: Ramón Falcón, soldier, police chief and Argentine deputy (d. 1909).
• 1861: Rosalío Hernández, Mexican military (d. 1942).
• 1864: Christiaan Cornelissen, Dutch anarcho-communist trade unionist (d. 1942).
• 1866: George Minne, Belgian sculptor (d. 1941).
• 1871: Ernest Rutherford, British chemist and physicist, 1908 Nobel Prize Winner (d. 1937).
• 1881: Agustín González de Amezúa, Spanish historian (d. 1956).
• 1884: Laureano Gómez Paratcha, Spanish physician and politician (d. 1968).
• 1884: Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, 1926 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry (d. 1971).
• 1890: Juan Barragán Rodríguez, Mexican military and politician (d. 1974).
• 1893: Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935).
• 1896: Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983).
• 1896: Puru (Pu Xinyu), Chinese painter and calligrapher (d. 1963).
• 1898: Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992).
• 1902: Leónidas Barletta, Argentine writer, journalist and playwright (d. 1975).
• 1902: Józef Maria Bocheński, Polish friar, philosopher and logician (d. 1995).
• 1906: Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979).
• 1908: Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991).
• 1912: Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, 1952 Nobel Laureate in Physics (d. 1997).
• 1912: Nancy Wake, New Zealander who acted as a British agent in World War II (d. 2011).
• 1913: Diego Cháfer, Spanish cyclist (d. 2007).
• 1913: Richard Stone, British economist (d. 1991).
• 1918: Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002).
• 1919: Kitty Wells, American singer (d. 2012).
• 1919: Justino Serralta, Uruguayan architect (d. 2011).
• 1923: Aldo Francia, Chilean pediatrician and filmmaker (f. 1996).
• 1923: Vic Seixas, American tennis player.
• 1924: Gustavo Lagos Matus, Chilean lawyer (f. 2003).
• 1927: Bill Daily, American actor (d. 2018).
• 1928: Alain Rey, French linguist and lexicographer (d. 2020).
• 1930 – Warren Buffett, American financier.
• 1931: Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982).
• 1933: Luis Bacalov, Italian pianist, conductor and composer (f. 2017).
• 1935: John Phillips, American musician, of the band The Mamas & the Papas (d. 2001).
• 1935: Clemente Vargas Jr., Venezuelan radio announcer and disc jockey (f. 1992).
• 1936: Rosamel Araya, Chilean bolero singer (f. 1996).
• 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand racing car designer, driver and engineer (d. 1970).
• 1938: Abel Laudonio, Argentine boxer (d. 2014).
• 1938: Alberto Natale, Argentine politician (d. 2011).
• 1939: Dorys del Valle, Argentine actress.
• 1939: Carmen Rico Godoy, Spanish journalist (d. 2001).
• 1939: John Peel, British broadcaster and journalist (d. 2004).
• 1940: Ricardo Bauleo, Argentine actor (d. 2014).
• 1943: Robert Crumb, American cartoonist.
• 1943: Jean-Claude Killy, French skier.
• 1944: Carmen Sarmiento, journalist and Spanish war correspondent.
• 1947: Peggy Lipton, American film actress (d. 2019).
• 1948: Arnaldo Larrinaga, Afro-Cuban painter.
• 1949: Peter Maffay, German singer.
• 1950: Antony Gormley, British sculptor.
• 1951: Timothy Bottoms, American actor and producer.
• 1951: Dana, singer and Irish politician.
• 1952: Manlio Fabio Beltrones, Mexican politician.
• 1953: María Luisa Carcedo, Spanish politician.
• 1953: Horace Panter, British musician, of the band The Specials.
• 1953: Robert Parish, American basketball player.
• 1954: Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarusian president.
• 1954 José Carlos Cataño, Canarian poet, narrator and essayist.
• 1958: Martin Jackson, British drummer, of the bands The Chameleons and Swing Out Sister.
• 1958: Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006).
• 1960: Chalino Sánchez (Rosalino Sánchez-Félix), Mexican singer (f. 1992).
• 1960: Jabier Muguruza, Spanish musician.
• 1961: Andrea Frigerio (Andrea Mitchelstein), Argentine actress and television host.
• 1962: Aleksandr Litvinenko, Russian military and spy (d. 2006).
• 1963: Michael Chiklis, American actor.
• 1963: Paul Oakenfold, British musician and DJ.
• 1964: Antonio Montiel, Spanish painter.
• 1969: Salvatore Avallone, Italian footballer.
• 1971: Lars Frederiksen, American musician, of the Rancid band.
• 1972: Cameron Diaz, American actress.
• 1972: Hani Hanjour, Saudi terrorist who participated in 9/11 (f. 2001).
• 1972: Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer.
• 1972: José Ramón Amieva, Mexican politician spout.
• 1974: Ricardo (f. 2001) and Javier Otxoa (f. 2018), Spanish cyclists.
• 1975: Rich Cronin, American singer (d. 2010).
• 1975: Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer.
• 1977: Shaun Alexander, American football player.
• 1977: Norkys Batista, Venezuelan model and actress.
• 1977: Jens Ludwig, German guitarist, of the band Edguy.
• 1977: Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer.
• 1978: Verónica Moral, Spanish actress.
• 1978: Swizz Beatz, American rapper and producer.
• 1979: Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player.
• 1979: Luis Rivas, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1980: Angel Coulby, British actress.
• 1981: Adam Wainwright, American baseball player.
• 1981: Grégory Béranger, French footballer.
• 1981: Tresor Kandol, Congolese footballer.
• 1981: Veniamín Mandrykin, Russian footballer.
• 1982: Andy Roddick, American tennis player.
• 1983: Simone Pepe, Italian footballer.
• 1985: Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer.
• 1986: Ryan Ross, American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
• 1986: Davide Simoncini, soccer player from San Marino.
• 1988: Víctor Claver, Spanish basketball player.
• 1988: Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player.
• 1989: Bebe Rexha, American singer and songwriter.
• 1989: Alba Torrens, Spanish basketball player.
• 1991: Deorro, American DJ and producer of Mexican origin.
• 1993: Paco Alcácer, Spanish footballer.
• 1993: Geraldine Galván, Mexican actress.
• 1994: Tommaso Augello, Italian footballer.
• 1996: Gabriel Barbosa, Brazilian soccer player.
• 1996: Carolina Kopelioff, Argentine actress.
• 1997: Alfa Semedo, footballer from Bisauguinean.
• 1997: Dael Fry, English footballer.
• 1997: Kasper Nissen, Danish footballer.
• 2007: Momiji Nishiya, Japanese figure skater.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

August 30 – A Day as Today – Deaths

• 1471: Thomas of Kempis, German Catholic friar, author of the Imitation of Christ (b.1380).
• 1580: Manuel Filiberto, French aristocrat (b. 1528).
• 1619 Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai (b.1535).
• 1620: Baltasar Elisio de Medinilla, Spanish poet (b. 1585).
• 1625: Anne of Prussia, German nobleman (b. 1576).
• 1818: Casimiro Gómez Ortega, Spanish physician and botanist (b. 1741).
• 1856: Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, British journalist, playwright, humorist and writer (b. 1811).
• 1883: Angela Peralta, Mexican singer (b. 1845).
• 1886: George Henry Gordon, American military man (b. 1823).
• 1908: Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter (b.1825).
• 1915: Pascual Orozco, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1882).
• 1921: Enrique del Valle Iberlucea, Argentine politician and writer (b. 1877).
• 1928: Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, 1911 Nobel Prize winner for physics (b. 1864).
• 1935: Henri Barbusse, French novelist (b.1873).
• 1940: Joseph John Thomson, British physicist, 1906 Nobel laureate in physics (b. 1856).
• 1961: Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877).
• 1970: Abraham Zapruder, Russian-American citizen who filmed the Kennedy assassination (b.1905).
• 1977ː Vladimir Tríbuts, Soviet admiral (b.1900).
• 1979: Jean Seberg, American actress (b.1938).
• 1981: Vera-Ellen, American actress (b.1921).
• 1985: Taylor Caldwell, United Kingdom-born American writer (b.1900).
• 1985: José Cubero Yiyo, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1964).
• 1986: Leonardo Posada, Colombian leader (b. 1947).
• 1991: Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b.1925).
• 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, Indian-born British writer and filmmaker (b. 1923).
• 1995: Sterling Morrison, American guitarist, of the band The Velvet Underground (b. 1942).
• 1996: José Toribio Merino, Chilean admiral (b.1915).
• 1998: Carlos Molina, Uruguayan poet and payador (b. 1927).
• 2002: J. Lee Thompson, British filmmaker (b.1914).
• 2003: Charles Bronson, American actor (b.1921).
• 2004: Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b.1906).
• 2005: Antoni Clavé, Spanish painter (b.1913).
• 2006: Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b.1916).
• 2006: Naguib Mahfuz, Egyptian writer, 1988 Nobel Prize Winner (b.1911).
• 2007: José Luis de Vilallonga, Spanish aristocrat, actor, writer and journalist (b.1920).
• 2008: Marés González, Chilean theater and television actress born in Argentina (b.1925).
• 2008: Killer Kowalski (Wladek Kowalski), Canadian professional wrestler (b.1926).
• 2008: Vicente Marco, Spanish journalist (b.1916).
• 2008: Ernesto Segura de Luna, Spanish lawyer, former president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (b. 1922).
• 2010: Jairo Aníbal Niño, Colombian poet and playwright (b.1941).
• 2010: Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer and centenary (b.1910).
• 2010: Alain Corneau, French actor, screenwriter and filmmaker (b.1943).
• 2010: Manuel Urbina, Spanish painter (b.1931).
• 2010: Willy Wullich, Argentine producer (b.1944).
• 2012: Bernardo Bonezzi, Spanish composer (b. 1964).
• 2012: Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor (b.1937).
• 2013: Seamus Heaney, Irish writer and academic, 1995 Nobel Prize Winner for literature (b.1939).
• 2013: Manuel Martín Ferrand, Spanish journalist (b.1940).
• 2014: Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (b.1996).
• 2014: Manuel Pertegaz, Spanish couturier (b.1918).
• 2015: Oliver Sacks, Anglo-American neurologist and writer (b.1933).
• 2015: Wes Craven, film director (b.1939).
• 2020: Ángel Faus Belau, Spanish journalist and professor (b.1935).
• 2021: Tomiii 11, Chilean youtuber (b. 2009).

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

August 30 – A Day as Today – Celebration

• International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearances.
• Latin America: International Day of the Disappeared Detainee.
• Turkey: Feast of Victory.

Catholic Santoral “A Day as Today”

August 30 – A Day as Today – Catholic Santoral

• America and the Philippines: Patronal feast in honor of the Peruvian saint Rosa de Lima.
• Santander – Patronal Festival in honor of San Emeterio and San Celedonio
• Peru: Santa Rosa de Lima, Peruvian mystical religious. (In Spain it is celebrated on August 23).
• Saint Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
• Saint Eustáquio van Lieshout
• Saint Juana Jugan
• Saint Margaret Ward, martyr
• Saint Narcisa of Jesus
• Saint Pamaquio.

What Sign of the Zodiac Rules those Born “A Day as Today”?

August 30 – A Day as Today – Zodiac Sign

♍ Virgo:

Famous & Celebrities People Born “A Day as Today”

August 30 – A Day as Today – Today’s Famous Birthdays

• 1946 – Ana María of Denmark.
• 1947 – Peggy Lipton, American film actress.
• 1951 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor.
• 1951 – Dana, Irish singer and politician.
• 1953 – María Luisa Carcedo, Spanish politician.
• 1953 – Horace Panter, British musician, of the band The Specials.
• 1953 – Robert Parish, American basketball player.
• 1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian president.
• 1958 – Martin Jackson, British drummer, of the bands Magazine, The Chameleons and Swing Out Sister.
• 1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist.
• 1960 – Chalino Sánchez, Mexican singer.
• 1962 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian military and spy.
• 1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor.
• 1963 – Paul Oakenfold, British musician and DJ.
• 1971 – Lars Frederiksen, American musician, of the band Rancid.
• 1971 – Mizuki Kawashita, Japanese mangaka and cartoonist.
• 1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress.
• 1972 – Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer.
• 1974 – Javier and Ricardo Otxoa, Spanish cyclists.
• 1975 – Rich Cronin, American singer (d. 2010).
• 1977 – Shaun Alexander, American football player.
• 1977 – Norkys Batista, Venezuelan model and actress.
• 1977 – Jens Ludwig, German guitarist, of the band Edguy.
• 1978 – Verónica Moral, Spanish actress.
• 1978 – Swizz Beatz, American rapper and producer.
• 1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player.
• 1980 – Angel Coulby, British actress.
• 1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player.
• 1983 – Jonne Aaron, Finnish singer, of the Negative band.
• 1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentine soccer player.
• 1983 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese actor and singer.
• 1985 – Aritz Aranburu, Spanish surfer.
• 1986 – Ryan Ross, American guitarist, of the band Panic! at the Disco.
• 1988 – Víctor Claver, Spanish basketball player

• Dorian, August 30, 2021.
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