On This Day in History

August 30

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, clash in one of the largest naval battles in history during the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

1682 William Penn leaves England to sail to the New World

The Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, fought August 29th and 30th, 1862

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 the destruction of the Russian Second Army, with 122,000-170,000 soldiers killed, injured, or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff

1928 Jawaharlal Nehru submits the Nehru Report, officially requesting independence for India and outlining a federal constitution with reserved seats for minorities

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Famous Birthdays

Peter the Cruel 1334 - 1369 Mary Shelley 1797 - 1851

Huey Long 1893 - 1935 Ted Williams 1918 - 2002

Also Robert Parish (71) and Cameron Diaz (52).

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Famous Deaths

J. J. Thomson 1856 - 1940 Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 - 2022

Also Louis XI and Charles Bronson.

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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.

The Father of Nuclear Physics