Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 30

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 * 1914 – World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army by the German 8th Army.
 * 1942 – British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against their Japanese captors, who required them to pledge not to escape.
 * 1942 – Second World War: German field marshal Erwin Rommel launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert campaign, attacking British positions near El Alamein, Egypt.
 * 1959 – Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of Indonesia.
 * 1974 – An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.
 * 1984 – Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
 * 1990 – Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing pornographic material.
 * 1992 – German racing driver Michael Schumacher won the Belgian Grand Prix, the first of his 91 Formula One Grand Prix wins.
 * Born/died: | Hervey le Breton |d|1131| Albert Szenczi Molnár |b|1574| Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet |b|1608| Agoston Haraszthy |b|1812| Abishabis |d|1843| Theodor Svedberg |b|1884|Paul Kochanski |b|1887| Don Getty |b|1933| Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster |d|1954|| Pavel Nedvěd |b|1972| Jack Marshall |d|1988| Oliver Sacks |d|2015

August 30: Victory Day in Turkey (1922)


 * AD 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Roman forces led by Titus set fire to the Second Temple during the Siege of Jerusalem.
 * 1574 – Guru Ram Das (pictured) became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.
 * 1594 – James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.
 * 1959 – South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed in to vote multiple times for President Ngô Đình Diệm's candidate.
 * 2007 – A heavy bomber plane that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles transported them from North Dakota to Louisiana before they were recognized.