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August 30: Day of the Week
August 30, 2024 is the 243rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.
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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
August 30 Historical Event(s)
1590
Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791
HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on a reef the previous day.
1799
The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1800
Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1945
Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945
The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1956
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
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.
1967
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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.
Who were born on August 30?
1720
Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
1922
Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano
1927
Bill Daily, American actor
1933
Don Getty, Canadian politician
1949
Don Boudria, Canadian politician
1951
Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1967
Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
1968
Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1977
Elden Henson, American actor
1985
Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
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Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters IODULEDJPAL? Check your answers here: Make words with these letters IODULEDJPAL. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
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