Holidays on August 30, 2024: name days, signs

Today, August 30, is International Whale Shark Day and International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance. There are 123 days until the New Year.

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance.

• International Cabernet Sauvignon Day.

• International Whale Shark Day.

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What events happened on August 30

• 1435 – in a two-day battle, Svidrigail’s forces are defeated at the Holy River.

• 1481 – Mikhail Olelkovich Slutsky and Prince Ivan Yurievich of Golshansky and Dubrovitsky are executed after the failure of a conspiracy against Kazimir Jagiellonczyk.

• 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, under the command of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, captures the main stronghold of Go-Hojo.

• 1835 – The city of Melbourne is founded in Australia.

• 1836 – The city of Houston is founded in Texas.

• 1877 – French self-taught inventor Emile Renault receives a patent for the Praxinoscope – the ancestor of animation.

• 1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth received a patent for a vacuum cleaner.

• 1919 – Ukrainian troops drive Red Army soldiers out of Zhitomir and liberate the city.

• 1920 – the Ukrainian Military Organization headed by Yevhen Konovalets is formed in Prague.

• 1940 – the wedding of British actors Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh took place.

• 1991 – Azerbaijan declares its independence.

• 1991 – The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decided to reassign allied enterprises to the territory of the Ukrainian republic.

• 1993 – The 150 millionth visitor climbs the Eiffel Tower.

• 1999 – During a referendum, the majority of the population of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia.

• 2021 – in the port of Frederiksgavn (Denmark), the icebreaker RRS James Clark Ross, the former flagship of the British Antarctic Survey, was officially transferred to Ukraine from Great Britain, and a blue and yellow flag was raised over it .

Who was born on August 30

• 1922 – Pavel Glazovoy, Ukrainian poet-humorist and satirist.

• 1926 – Nikolai Lyakhovich, Ukrainian historian.

• 1972 – Cameron Diaz, American actress.

Whose birthday is today?: Alexander, Arseny, Athanasius, Gabriel, Gregory, Daniel, Ivan, Ignatius, Leonid, Makar, Pavel, Peter, Fedor, Jacob, Elizabeth.

Folk signs and traditions for August 30

• A starfall on this day indicates health problems.

• There are many stars in the sky – next year will be very fruitful.

• There are many berries on the rowan tree – wait for the rain.

• Birds fly high in the sky – there will be a hot and dry autumn.

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