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HMS Pandora
James Longstreet
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Marrella fossil found at the Burgess Shale
Erwin Rommel
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| First night of Selichot (Ashkenazi Judaism, 2011); | refimprove |
| 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. | no footnotes |
| 1800 – Gabriel Prosser planned to hold a slave rebellion in Virginia, United States, 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 |
| 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: date not in article; AC Allen: says Aug 26; Houston: date not in article; History of Houston implies the date is Aug 30 |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 1813 – Creek War: A force of Creeks belonging to the Red Sticks faction killed hundreds of settlers in Fort Mims in Alabama.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1942 – Second World War: Erwin Rommel (pictured) launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert Campaign, attacking the British Eighth Army position near El Alamein, Egypt.
- 1959 – The title of National Hero of Indonesia was first given, the recipient being the writer-cum-politician Abdul Muis.
- 1992 – German driver Michael Schumacher, "statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen", won his first Formula One race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
- 1995 – Bosnian War: NATO began its bombing campaign against the Army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
August 30: Paryushana begins (Digambar Jains, 2014); Constitution Day in Kazakhstan (1995); St. Rose of Lima's Day in Peru; Victory Day in Turkey
- 1799 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: A squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic surrendered to the Royal Navy without a fight near Wieringen.
- 1835 – European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Southeastern Australia founded the city of Melbourne (Parliament House pictured).
- 1862 – American Civil War: In separate actions, Confederate forces were victorious in both the Battle of Richmond in Kentucky and the Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia.
- 1918 – Fanny Kaplan shot and wounded Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, one of the events leading to the Red Terror in the future Soviet Union, a repression against Socialist Revolutionary Party members and other political opponents.
- 1984 – Space Shuttle Discovery took off on its maiden voyage.