On This Day in History for August 30
Events in History
- 257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1125 Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
- 1146 European leaders outlaw the crossbow, intending to end war for all time
- 1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty
- 1464 Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II as Pope Paul II
- 1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Casimir IV
- 1563 Jewish community of Neutitschlin, Moravia, expelled
- 1574 Ram Das becomes the 4th Sikh Guru
- More Events in History
Peter the Cruel
Mary Shelley
Ernest Rutherford
Huey Long
Warren Buffett
Alexander LukashenkoWeddings in History
- 1846 Author and Christian pioneer Ellen G. White (18) weds preacher James Springer White (25) in Portland, Maine
- 1953 Future NYC mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in NYC
- 2003 Daughter of Paul McCartney and fashion designer Stella McCartney (31) weds British publisher Alasdhair Willis on the 300-acre Gothic Estate in Scotland's Isle of Bute
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Louis XI
J. J. Thomson
Seamus Heaney
Mikhail GorbachevAugust in History
How 200 Conquistadors Conquered an Empire of 10 Million
How did a mere 200 Spanish conquistadors capture the Incan Emperor-god Atahualpa, execute him and conquer an entire empire?
August 29, 1533
Fighting The Scourge of Child Labour
Britain’s first Factory Act came into law on this day. It was passed mainly to save children from the dreadful conditions that they endured in their workplace.
August 29, 1833
Ernest Rutherford, The Man Who ‘Split’ The Atom
New Zealand’s Ernest Rutherford, the first man to “split” the atom, and who would become world-famous as “the Father Of Nuclear Physics” was born on this day.
August 30, 1871
John Snow, Cholera and the Battle for Broad Street
In 1854, John Snow made his name as the father of modern epidemiology in response to the Broad Street cholera outbreak. He traced the outbreak and helped to establish the germ theory of disease.
August 31, 1854