August 30: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

August 30th marks the 242nd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 243rd in case of leap years). There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Cameron Diaz (1972), Warren Buffett (1930) and Anna Politkovskaia (1958). Holidays and observances around the world include: International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
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Holidays

International Day of the Disappeared
Turkey - Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922)
Peru - Saint Rose of Lima's Day

Events

2018 Economy of Argentina: Argentina raises its interest rate to 60% as its currency plummets.
2017 War in Afghanistan (2001-present: At least 11 Afghan civilians were killed and 16 others were injured when a NATO helicopter attacked Logar Province east of Kabul, where Taliban insurgents had sought refuge.
2016 Sinjar massacre: Many Yazidi were killed in the massacre of 2014. ISIL discovered 72 mass graves.
2015 Saudi Arabian-led intervention Yemen: 36 civilians killed in an air strike by a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. They were working at a bottling facility in the northern Hajjah Governorate.
2014 As the army stage a coup, Prime Minister Tom Thabane flees Lesotho to South Africa.
2013 David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, says that there must be a strong response to the alleged use by chemical weapons in Syria, despite the fact that military action has been ruled out for the UK.
2012 Syrian Civil War
2011 Three suicide bombings left 9 people dead and 20 injured in Grozny (capital of the Republic of Chechnya), Russia.
2010 Four Israeli settlers are killed, one of them a pregnant woman. A gunman opened fire on their car, and the shooting ended in four victims. Hamas takes responsibility for the killing.
2009 Japanese voters vote.
2008 More than 70 cities in Mexico host mass marches calling for stronger enforcement of laws against violent crime.
2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident, in which a B-52 flew from Minot Air Force Base (North Dakota) to Barksdale Air Force Base (Lousiana), carrying six nuclear warheads.
2006 Hurricane John will batter the Pacific coast of Mexico, with the potential for flash floods or landslides.
2005 Conflict in Iraq: According U.S. government officials and Iraqi government officials 56 civilians were killed and more than seven insurgents were killed in US Airstrikes near Syria's border.
2004 U.S. President George W. Bush (to September 2) and Vice President Dick Cheney were re-nominated by the Republican National Convention in New York City.
2003 Software patents: The European Parliament delayed its decision on legality of software patents in the European Union, from September 1 through September 22 after protests.
1999 Bowers and Merena auctions the Watters-Childs Collection. A US 1804 Draped Bust dollar PR-68, finest known, believed to have been in the Sultan of Muscat presentation set, first public offering since 1945, sells for $4.14 million, a world record price for a rare coin.
1998 State Farm Rail Golf Classic
1997 1st WNBA Championshion: Houston Comets beat the New York Liberty
1996 The attempted raising of a 15-tonne section of the RMS Titanic fails, as 1,700 spectators, including survivors of the wreckage, watch.
1995 Cable News Network joins internet
1994 Gund Arena in Cleveland opens
1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1992 2 Trains Running closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 performances
1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka Poet Selvi
1990 Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) - Discovery 1 - launched (6 days).
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched
1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1981 Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1972 John Lennon andYoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden
1971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1967 Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1966 France offers independence to French Somaliland.
1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
1963 Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins.
1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1961 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1958 September 1 – Notting Hill race riots: Riots between blacks and whites in Notting Hill, London.
1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City
1952 The last Finnish war reparations are sent to the Soviet Union.
1951 US and Philippines sign mutual defense pact
1949 Roly Jenkins (Worcs vs. Surrey) takes his 2nd hat-trick of the game
1947 A fire at a movie theater in Rueil, a suburb of Paris, France kills 87 people.
1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7
1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 24, All-Stars 21
1942 Nazi-Germany annexes Luxembourg
1941 Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops began during WWII
1940 The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1933 Air France forms
1928 Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India
1927 41st US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall
1925 6th Iron pilgrim at Diksmuide Belgium
1923 Hurricane season begins, with a tropical storm northeast of Turks and Caicos.
1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
1918 Czechoslovakia forms independence Republic
1916 Paul von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany.
1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1909 Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1906 New York Highlander Joe Doyle debuts pitching back-to-back shut-outs
1905 Pogoro / Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa
1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon
1902 In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts again, destroying the town of Morne-Rouge causing 1000 deaths.
1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner
1900 Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
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