On This Day in History August 30, 2023

Historical Events 1146  European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time 1363  Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty 1590  Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590) 1682  William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World 1862  Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces 1914  Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) in East Prussia ends in destruction of the Russian Second Army with 122,000-170,000 killed, injured or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff 1928  Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India Famous Birthdays Cameron Diaz 51st Birthday Carol E. Reiley 41st Birthday Huey Long 1893 - 1935 Warren Buffett 93rd Birthday More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Louis XI 1423 - 1483 Vera-Ellen 1921 - 1981 More Famous Deaths August 30: Ernest Rutherford, The Man Who ‘Split’ The Atom New Zealand’s Ernest Rutherford, the first man to “split” the atom, and who would become world-famous as “the Father Of Nuclear Physics” was born on this day. Read the Article