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This is a list of selected August 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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HMS Pandora
James Longstreet
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Marrella fossil found at the Burgess Shale
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel
The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Francesco Hayez
Parliament House, Melbourne
Amalasuintha
Thurgood Marshall
Maiden launch of Discovery
Michael Schumacher

Ineligible

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
1835 – European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Southeastern Australia founded the city of Melbourne.	refimprove section
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 23.87 miles (38.42 km), opened.	refimprove section
1967 – Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.	refimprove section
1981 – Iranian president Mohammad-Ali Rajai and prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar were assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.	Assassination article flagged for being sourced to a community website
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

Eligible

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 – 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.
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.
1992 – German racing driver Michael Schumacher won the Belgian Grand Prix, the first of his 91 Formula One Grand Prix wins.
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| Don Getty |b|1933| Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster |d|1954|| Pavel Nedvěd |b|1972| Jack Marshall |d|1988| Oliver Sacks |d|2015

August 30: Ghost Festival in China (2023); Victory Day in Turkey (1922)

Guru Ram Das

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 – James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.
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.
2007 – A heavy bomber plane that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles transported them from North Dakota to Louisiana before they were recognized.

Abishabis (d. 1843)
Frieda Fraser (b. 1899)
Seamus Heaney (d. 2013)

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