The August 30th is the 242e Jour of the Année (243e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
1 to 1900
XXe century
XXIe century
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2003 :
- Last takeoff of a Harmony, Barbados
- the 146 Member States of OMC give their agreement to the importation of generic medicines by the poor countries deprived of drug company.
- Lyonpo Jigme Thinley becomes again Prime Minister for the Bhutan.
- Shipwreck of the Underwater Russian K-159, disarmed and in the course of towing towards a building site of disassembling, in Mer of Barents
- a subway train is reversed and embedded in the quay of the station Our-Lady-to-Lorette in Paris: 24 slightly injureds.
- With the Championships of the world of athletics of Saint-Denis
Eunice Barber gains the contest length, and the French female relay of the 4x100m, composed of
Patricia Girard,
Muriel Hurtis,
Sylviane Felix and
Christine Arron, gains the gold medal.
Births
Death
- 526: Théodoric III, king Osthrogoth of Italy, in Ravenne
- 1483: Louis XI, king de France
- 1631: Charles III of Mayenne, noble French, duke of Mayenne and Pivot (° 1609, 22 years)
- 1723: Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, discoverer of the Protozoon S
- 1928: Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize 1911 (° 1864)
- 1970: Abraham Zapruder, scenario writer amateur having filmed the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (° May 15th 1905)
- 1971: Louis Armand, engineer, specialist in the railroads and atomic energy, resistant
- 1978: Henryk Zygalski, mathematician and cryptologist Polish (° July 15th 1906)
- 1985: El Yiyo (Jose Cubero Sanchez), Spanish Matador (° April 16th 1964)
- 1991: Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (° 1925)
- 1996: Christine Pascal, actress and French director, commits suicide.
- 2003 : Charles Bronson, American actor
- 2006: Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize of Literature in 1988
- 2006: Glenn Ford, American actor
- 2007: Jean Diébold, Politician French (° April 22nd 1939)
Celebrations
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
- Fantin de Thessalonique († v. 1000), monk and miracle-worker.
- Hackney carriage († 670), monk of Irish origin, owner of the gardeners.
See too
Beats-smg: Rogpjūtė 30
Be-X-old: 30 жніўня
Fiu-vro: 30. põimukuu päiv
Nds-nl: 30 augustus
Simple: August 30
Zh-yue: 8 月 30 號