Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 30
From Global Warming Art
The following page is a local copy of the Wikipedia page at Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 30. (more info)
This is a list of selected August 30 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will 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 how well they are written, not based on how much their subjects are important or significant. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed.
Also, to maintain some variety of topics on the Main Page as a whole, an event is not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled August 30, 2010 featured article or the August 30, 2010 featured picture.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Admins: after updating please purge the cache of the Main Page so that the updated version appears.August 30: St. Rose of Lima's Day in Peru; Victory Day in Turkey
- 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the Sixth Coalition under Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (pictured) captured French General Dominique Vandamme and thousands of his soldiers at the Battle of Kulm.
- 1835 – European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Southern Australia founded the city of Melbourne.
- 1862 – American Civil War: James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson led their Confederate troops to a decisive victory against John Pope's Union Army at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia.
- 1918 – Fanny Kaplan shot and wounded Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, helping to spark the Red Terror in the Soviet Union, a repression against Socialist-Revolutionary Party members and other political opponents.
- 1999 – The people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a United Nations-supervised referendum.
