Events on August 30 39
Year 526
King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
Year 1282
Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
Year 1363
The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
Year 1727
Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
Year 1791
HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
Year 1799
The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
Year 1800
Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
Year 1813
First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
Year 1813
Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
Year 1862
American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
Year 1873
Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
Year 1896
Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
Year 1917
Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
Year 1918
Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
Year 1922
Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
Year 1940
The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
Year 1945
Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
Year 1945
The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
Year 1945
The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
Year 1945
The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
Year 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.
Year 1963
The Moscow-Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
Year 1967
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Year 1974
A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
Year 1974
A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
Year 1981
President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
Year 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
Year 1992
The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
Year 1995
Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
Year 1998
Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
Year 2014
Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.