Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 30

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  HMS Pandora
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  James Longstreet
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  Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
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  Marrella fossil found at the Burgess Shale
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  Erwin Rommel
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  The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Francesco Hayez
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  Michael Schumacher
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  Amalasuintha
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  Thurgood Marshall
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  Maiden launch of Discovery
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  Guru Ram Das
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  Mohammad-Javad Bahonar

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Blurb	Reason
First night of Selichot (Ashkenazi Judaism, 2011);	no Gregorian dates
; Constitution Day in Kazakhstan (1995)	incomplete
St. Rose of Lima's Day in Peru	refimprove, date not cited
526 – Upon the death of her father Theodoric the Great, Amalasuintha (pictured) of the Ostrogoths became the regent for her ten-year-old son Athalaric.	Referencing problems
1791 – HMS Pandora sank after running aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day, claiming the lives of 31 crew and four prisoners.	refimprove section
1799 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: A squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic surrendered to the British without a fight, near Wieringen.	Referencing issues
1800 – Gabriel Prosser planned to hold a slave rebellion in Virginia, U.S., but it had to be postponed due to rain, and he was captured before he could reschedule it.	needs more footnotes
1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the Sixth Coalition under Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly captured French General Dominique Vandamme and thousands of his soldiers at the Battle of Kulm.	refimprove
1813 – Creek War: A force of Creeks belonging to the Red Sticks faction killed hundreds of settlers in Fort Mims in Alabama.	Referencing issues
1836 – Real estate entrepreneurs John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen founded the city of Houston on land near the banks of Buffalo Bayou in present-day Texas.	JK Allen: article says he announced his candidacy for an election on Aug 30 and city was founded after he was elected; Houston: says Aug 30 with a good reference; could be included in the future with some cleanup of the brothers' articles
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces won the Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia.	Lots of unreferenced material
1896 – Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a powder magazine before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison.	lots of CN tags in one section (4)
1909 – American paleontologist Charles Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale, one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, in the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia.	expansion
1917 – A coalition of Vietnamese political prisoners, criminals, and prison guards rebelled against French prison authorities in Thái Nguyên before being subdued a week later.	lots of CN tags, POV
1918 – Fanny Kaplan fired three shots with a pistol at Vladimir Lenin in an attempted assassination shortly before the beginning of the Red Terror.	Referencing issues
1922 – Greco-Turkish War: Turkey defeated Greece at the Battle of Dumlupınar near Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.	refimprove
1952 – The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana, currently the longest bridge over water in the world at Template:Nowrap (Template:Nowrap), opened.	refimprove section
1992 – German racing driver Michael Schumacher (pictured) won the Belgian Grand Prix, the first of his 91 Formula One Grand Prix wins.	Yellow "too detailed/large" banner
1995 – Bosnian War: NATO forces began a bombing campaign against the Army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.	Primary sources
2014 – Prime minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane fled to South Africa, claiming that the army had launched a coup d'état.	Close paraphrasing
Anna Ushenina |b|1985|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• AD 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Roman forces led by Titus set fire to the Second Temple during the siege of Jerusalem.
• 1574 – Guru Ram Das (pictured) became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.
• 1594 – King James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.
• 1914 – World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army by the German 8th Army.
• 1942 – British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against their Japanese captors, who required them to pledge not to escape.
• 1942 – Second World War: German field marshal Erwin Rommel launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert campaign, attacking British positions near El Alamein, Egypt.
• 1959 – South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed in to vote multiple times for President Ngô Đình Diệm's candidate.
• 1959 – Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of Indonesia.
• 1974 – An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.
• 1981 – 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.
• 1984 – Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
• 1990 – Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing pornographic material.
• 2007 – A heavy bomber that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles flew them from North Dakota to Louisiana before they were recognized.
• 2025 – Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy was assassinated in Lviv, Ukraine.
• Born/died: | Hervey le Breton |d|1131| Albert Szenczi Molnár |b|1574| Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet |b|1608| Agoston Haraszthy |b|1812| Abishabis |d|1843| Theodor Svedberg |b|1884| Paul Kochanski |b|1887| Toera |d|1897| Frieda Fraser |b|1899| Don Getty |b|1933| Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster |d|1954| Anna Politkovskaya |b|1958| Joann Fletcher |b|1966| Abraham Zapruder |d|1970| Jack Marshall |d|1988| Bebe Rexha |b|1989| Francisco Varallo |d|2010| Seamus Heaney |d|2013| Oliver Sacks |d|2015|

August 30: Victory Day in Turkey (1922) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1464 – Paul II succeeded Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church.
• 1835 – European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Southeastern Australia founded the city of Melbourne (Parliament House pictured).
• 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
• 1974 – A powerful bomb exploded at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, killing eight people.
• 2021 – The last remaining American troops left Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.