Events
of the day 1363 β Beginning date
of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces
of two Chinese rebel leaders β Chen Youliang
and Zhu Yuanzhang β are pitted against each
other in what is one of the largest naval
battles in history, during the last decade
of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
1574 β Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh
Guru/Master.
1590 β Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle.
(Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1791 β HMS Pandora sinks after having run
aground on a reef the previous day.
1799 β 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 β Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned
slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but
is arrested before he can make it happen.
1813 β Battle of Kulm: French forces are
defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian
alliance.
1813 β Creek War β Fort Mims massacre: Creek
"Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers
(including over 250 armed militia) in Fort
Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1835 β Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 β The city of Houston is founded by
Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1862 β American Civil War β Battle of Richmond:
Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout
Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
1873 β Austrian explorers Julius von Payer
and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago
of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
1896 β 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
RamΓ³n Blanco y Erenas.
1897 β The town of Ambiky is captured by
France from Menabe in Madagascar.
1909 β Burgess Shale fossils are discovered
by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1914 β World War I: Germans defeat the Russians
in the Battle of Tannenberg
1918 β Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously
injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin.
This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik
senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier,
prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1922 β Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle
in the Greek-Turkish War ("Turkish
War of Independence").
1940 β The Second Vienna Award re-assigns
the territory of Northern Transylvania from
Romania to Hungary.
1942 β World War II: the Battle of Alam
Halfa begins.
1945 β Hong Kong is liberated from Japan
by British Armed Forces.
1945 β The Supreme Commander of the Allied
Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands
at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945 β The Allied Control Council, governing
Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1956 β The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
1962 β 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.
1963 β The Hotline between the leaders of
the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into
operation.
1967 β Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as
the first African American Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
1974 β A BelgradeβDortmund express train
derails at the main train station in Zagreb
killing 153 passengers.
1974 β A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi,
Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured.
Eight left-wing activists are arrested on
May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
1981 β 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.
1984 β STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery
takes off on its maiden voyage.
1995 β NATO launches Operation Deliberate
Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1999 β East Timor voted for independence
from Indonesia in a referendum.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Alexander of Constantinople
Fantinus
Felix and Adauctus
Pammachius
August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day of the Disappeared (International)
Saint Rose of Lima's Day (Peru)
Victory Day (Turkey)
Republic Day (Tatarstan)
International Day of the Victims of Enforced
Disappearances