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On August 30, 70: Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

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Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

AD 70 (LXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vespasian and Titus. The denomination AD 70 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

People

Born on August 30

Fábio Carvalho 2002– Portuguese footballer
Drake Maye 2002– American football player (born 2002)
Mikal Bridges 1996– American basketball player (born 1996)
Trevor Jackson 1996– American actor and singer (born 1996)
Monika Povilaitytė 1994– Lithuanian beach volleyball player (born 1994)
Heo Young-ji 1994– South Korean singer (born 1994)
Kwon So-hyun 1994– South Korean actress (born 1994)
Jessica Henwick 1992– British actress (born 1992)
Seriki Audu 1991– Nigerian footballer (1991–2014)
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Jacqueline Cako 1991– American tennis player
Liam Cooper 1991– Scotland international footballer (born 1991)
Simone Guerra 1989– Italian footballer (born 1989)
Ronald Huth 1989– Paraguayan footballer (born 1989)
Bebe Rexha 1989– American singer and songwriter (born 1989)
Ernests Gulbis 1988– Latvian tennis player
Johanna Braddy 1987– American actress
Tania Foster 1987– Musical artist
Theo Hutchcraft 1986– English musician (born 1986)

People

Died on August 30

Tūheitia Paki Māori King from 2006 to 2024
Fatman Scoop American hip-hop artist (1968–2024)
Mikhail Gorbachev Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
Valerie Harper American actress (1939–2019)
Louise Hay American author (1926–2017)
Skip Prokop Canadian musical artist (1943–2017)
Wes Craven American filmmaker (1939–2015)
Edward Fadeley American judge (1929–2015)
M. M. Kalburgi Indian scholar and writer (1938–2015)
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Marvin Mandel 56th Governor of Maryland
Oliver Sacks British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
Charles Bowden American writer (1945–2014)
Bipan Chandra Indian historian (1928–2014)
Igor Decraene Belgian cyclist
Andrew V. McLaglen British-American film director (1920–2014)
Felipe Osterling Peruvian lawyer, writer and politician
William C. Campbell American amateur golfer (1923–2013)
Howie Crittenden American basketball player (1933–2013)

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Every August 30 on record

  1. 70 Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

    Calendar year

    AD 70 (LXX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vespasian and Titus. The denomination AD 70 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 1057 Elderly Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas abdicates after just one year on the throne.

    The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors who never attained the status of sole or senior ruler, as well as of the various usurpers or rebels who claimed the imperial title.

  3. 1060 The Mirdasids defeat the Fatimid Caliphate at the Battle of al-Funaydiq, signalling the definitive loss of Aleppo for the Fatimids.

    Emirate of Aleppo dynasty from 1024 to 1080

    The Mirdasid dynasty, also called the Banu Mirdas, was an Arab Shia Muslim dynasty which ruled an Aleppo-based emirate in northern Syria and the western Jazira more or less continuously from 1024 until 1080.

  4. 1282 Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

    King of Aragon and Valencia (1276–85); King of Sicily (1282–85)

    Peter III of Aragon was King of Aragon, King of Valencia, and Count of Barcelona from 1276 to his death. At the invitation of some rebels, he conquered the Kingdom of Sicily and became King of Sicily in 1282, pressing the claim of his wife, Constance II of Sicily, uniting the kingdom to the crown.

  5. 1363 The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.

    1363 naval battle of the Red Turban Rebellion

    The Battle of Lake Poyang was a naval battle which took place between the rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang during the Red Turban Rebellion which led to the fall of the Yuan dynasty. Chen Youliang besieged Nanchang with a large fleet on Lake Poyang, one of China's largest freshwater lakes, and Zhu Yuanzhang met his force with a smaller fleet. After an inconclusive engagement exchanging fire, Zhu employed fire ships to burn the enemy tower ships and destroyed their fleet.

  6. 1464 Paul II succeeds Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church.
  7. 1535 With the papal bull Eius qui immobilis, Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England from the Catholic Church for approving the Acts of Supremacy, although the bull is likely never published.
  8. 1574 Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
  9. 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
  10. 1594 King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.
  11. 1721 The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.
  12. 1727 Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
  13. 1757 Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
  14. 1791 HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
  15. 1799 The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
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  1. 1800 Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
  2. 1813 First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
  3. 1813 Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
  4. 1835 Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
  5. 1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
  6. 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
  7. 1873 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
  8. 1896 Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
  9. 1909 Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  10. 1914 World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
  11. 1916 Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
  12. 1917 Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
  13. 1918 Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
  14. 1922 Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence).
  15. 1936 The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.

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