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Events on August 30

• 1835 Modern Melbourne grew out of a camp established by settlers from Tasmania in Port Phillip Bay. Its detained founder, John Pascoe Fawkner, arrives with the second settler transport in October.
• 1872 Potsdam railway station in Berlin is inaugurated. It later becomes a European transport hub.
• 1914 The Battle of Tannenberg on the German Eastern Front of the First World War, which began on 26 August, ends with a victory of the German Empire over Russia, which is subsequently exploited for propaganda purposes.
• 1918 Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, is seriously injured in an assassination attempt. Fanny Kaplan is arrested as a suspect. The assassination attempt triggers the phase of the so-called Red Terror.
• 1932 Hermann Göring becomes President of the German Reichstag.
• 1945 The Allied Control Council is constituted in occupied post-war Germany.
• 1953 For the first time, Der Internationale Frühschoppen, a journalistic discussion program about politics and world affairs with Werner Höfer as host, is broadcast on German television.
• 1963 In the United States and the Soviet Union, the “Red Telephone” is installed on 20 June to prevent, following the experiences of the Cuban Missile Crisis, misunderstandings that could endanger peace.
• 1978 A couple from East Germany hijacks a Tupolev Tu-134 of the Polish airline Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT (LOT), using a toy pistol, on the flight from Danzig to Berlin-Schönefeld, and instead forces it to land at Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin.
• 1984 Space Shuttle Discovery launches on its maiden flight in mission STS-41-D.
• 1992 Maria Jepsen, the first female bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, is installed in office in Hamburg.
• 2021 The last American aircraft leaves Kabul Airport. This ends the nearly 20-year involvement of the United States in the war in Afghanistan.

Born on August 30

• 1852 Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, Dutch chemist and first Nobel laureate in Chemistry
• 1871 Ernest Rutherford, British nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1880 Konrad Graf von Preysing, German clergyman, Bishop of Eichstätt and Berlin
• 1902 Alois Carigiet, Swiss painter and children's book author
• 1930 Warren Buffett, American investor and entrepreneur
• 1962 Alexander Walterowitsch Litwinenko, Russian journalist and book author
• 1972 Cameron Diaz, American actress
• 1972 Pavel Nedvěd, Czech football player
• 1981 André Niklaus, German track and field athlete
• 1993 Paco Alcácer, Spanish football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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