It happened on this day, August 30th.
Events:
1914 – German forces capture the French city of Amiens during World War I.
1916 – The U.S. government issues the Jones Act, promising to grant independence to the Philippines.
✴️ The Ottoman Empire declares war on Romania in World War I.
1918 – Socialist fanatic Fania Kaplan attempts to assassinate Soviet president and leader Vladimir Lenin because she considers him a traitor to socialism.
1928 – Announcement of the formation of the 'Indian Independence Party'.
1944 – Soviet forces enter the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
✴️ Declaration of Independence of South Vietnam.
1946 – British forces withdraw from Syria and Lebanon.
1951 – The United States and the Philippines sign a mutual defense treaty.
1955 – End of the Aix-Lebanon negotiations between representatives of the Moroccan National Movement and the French authorities at the end of the French protectorate over Morocco.
1979 – Hurricane David hits Dominica, destroying it and the banana plantations that support the country's economy.
1981 – An explosion in the Iranian Cabinet building in Tehran kills President Mohammad Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahounar.
1982 – Launch of the satellite “Cosmos-1402”, which carried a nuclear reactor containing 50 kg of uranium 235. The purpose of its launch was to conduct experiments related to performing maneuvers in space to change the size and shape of the satellites' orbits.
1991 – Azerbaijan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – David Jowett and Jane Lu complete their research in which they proved the existence of the Kuiper Belt by discovering the first object after Pluto and its moon Charon.
1993 – Inauguration of the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca.
1997 – Gunmen in Algeria massacred 48 people in Maale, Djelfa province, Oran and Algiers.
2009 – The opposition Democratic Party of Japan wins the general election, overthrowing the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan for 50 years.
2014 The first episode of the political satire program Al-Bashir Show is broadcast.
2015 – ISIS partially blows up the Temple of Bel in Palmyra.
✴️ The Nigerian team won for the first time in its history the 2015 African Basketball Championship organized in Tunisia against the Angolan team, while the Tunisian team came in third place.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections from the Corona pandemic exceeds 25 million people worldwide, including more than 843,000 deaths and approximately 16,451,000 recovered cases.
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Births:
1388 – Shihab al-Din al-Hijazi, Egyptian writer.
1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter.
1797 – Mary Shelley, British novelist.
1852 – Jacobus van't Hoff, Dutch chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901.
1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand chemist and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1926.
1912 – Edward Purcell, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952.
1913 – Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1984.
1932 – Madiha Wajdi, Iraqi actress.
1959 – Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and former Interior Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor.
1966 – Ayman Ben Abdel Rahman, Algerian politician and economist.
1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress.
** Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer.
1975 – Radhi Jaaidi, Tunisian footballer.
1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player.
1986 – Sally Al-Qadi, Egyptian TV host and actress living in Kuwait.
1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player.
1991 – Liam Cooper, English footballer.
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Death:
526 – Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths.
1621 – Sheikh Al-Baha'i, Shia religious scholar, jurist, mathematician and philosopher.
1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911.
1940 – Joseph Thomson, English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906.
1980 – Muhammad Al-Fahham, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque
1981 – Mohammad Ali Rajai, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1981 – Attiya Al-Jamri, Bahraini poet and orator.
1985 – Gholam Reza Rouhani, Iranian poet.
1986 – M. Badir, Egyptian director, author and actor.
1987 – Mohamed Kamel Laila, President of the Egyptian People's Assembly.
1999 – Abdullah Al-Baradouni, Yemeni poet and writer.
2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor.
2005 – Elie Sanifer, Lebanese actor.
2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and thinker who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988.
2010 – Francisco Varayo, Argentine footballer.
2016 – Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, official spokesman for the Islamic State.
2018 – Hussein Abdel Razek, Egyptian politician and journalist.
** Hassan Dahmani is a Tunisian singer.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ International Day of the Disappeared.
⬅️ Victory Day in Türkiye.
