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This is a list of selected August 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Blurb Reason
First night of Selichot (Ashkenazi Judaism, 2011); refimprove
; Constitution Day in Kazakhstan (1995) incomplete
St. Rose of Lima's Day in Peru refimprove, date not cited
Victory Day in Turkey refimprove
1791HMS Pandora sank after running aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day, claiming the lives of 31 crew and four prisoners. needs more footnotes
1800Gabriel Prosser planned to hold a slave rebellion in Virginia, U.S., but it had to be postponed due to rain, and he was captured before he could reschedule it. needs more footnotes
1813Napoleonic 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
1835 – European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Southeastern Australia founded the city of Melbourne. refimprove section
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: article says he announced his candidacy for an election on Aug 30 and city was founded after he was elected; AC Allen: says on Aug 26 they purchased land but does not have a date for the founding of the city; Houston: says Aug 30 with a good reference; could be included in the future with some cleanup of the brothers' articles
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. expansion
1914World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army by the German Eighth Army. refimprove section
1917 – A coalition of Vietnamese political prisoners, criminals, and prison guards rebelled against French prison authorities in Thái Nguyên before being subdued a week later. lots of CN tags, POV
1922Greco-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
1995Bosnian War: NATO began its bombing campaign against the Army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina. refimprove

Eligible

Albert Szenczi Molnár (b. 1574) · Mary Shelley (b. 1797) · Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster (d. 1954)

August 30: Eid al-Ghadeer (Shia Islam, 2018)

The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Francesco Hayez
The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by Francesco Hayez

Hervey le Breton (d. 1131) · Agoston Haraszthy (b. 1812) · Marcelo H. del Pilar (b. 1850)

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