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August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master
1813 - Battle of Kulm - French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
1862 - Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright
1862 - Union forces defeated in Second Battle of Bull Run
1914 - Battle of Tannenberg
1918 - Assassins seriously injure Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky, prompting the decree for Red Terror
1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")
1941 - Siege of Leningrad begins
1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation
1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball
1965 - Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influencial album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."
1967 - Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African-American Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR
1991 - Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR
1993 - The Late Show with David Letterman debuts on CBS.
1999 - East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum
2002 - The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas ceases to operate.

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