Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 30
August 30: St. Rose of Lima's Day in Peru; Victory Day in Turkey.
- 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: French General Dominique Vandamme and thousands of his soldiers were captured in the Battle of Kulm by forces of the Sixth Coalition under Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (pictured).
- 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 Major General 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.
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