Template:On this day/30 August
- 1835 – Australie: Melbourne, Victoria is foondit.
- 1963 – The Moscow–Washington telephone atween the leaders o the U.S. an the Soviet Union gaes intae operation.
- 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Juistice o the Supreme Coort o the Unitit States.
- 1981 – Preses Mohammad-Ali Rajai an Prime Meenister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar o Iran are assassinatit in a bombin committit bi the Fowk's Mujahedin o Iran.
- 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery (picturt) taks aff on its maiden voyage.
Mary Shelley (b. 1797) · Ernest Rutherford (b. 1871) · Cameron Diaz (b. 1972)