Talk:August 30

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August 30: Victory Day in Turkey (1922) Parliament House, Melbourne 1464 – Paul II succeeded Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church. 1835 – European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Southeastern Australia founded the city of Melbourne (Parliament House pictured). 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice. 1974 – A powerful bomb exploded at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, killing eight people. 2021 – The last remaining American troops left Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war. Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (b. 1946) Pavel Nedvěd (b. 1972) Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 2022) Tūheitia (d. 2024) More anniversaries: August 29 August 30 August 31

Images

Is it fine to add images to date articles? This is the first I've seen. Rsage 00:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I've never seen a consensus for or against: they're added and removed fairly randomly. --CalendarWatcher 00:50, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Houston

Added founding of Houston to events Fitzharry 02:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Removed name change for football player

In the grand scheme of things, the legal name change of a football player does not warrant it to be important enough to be included on a list of Events for August 30th. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.104.32.27 (talk) 19:17, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

St Fiacre

none of the St Fiacres mentioned in the article linked to say Aug. 30. Will delete unless someone discusses why not.--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 14:53, 30 August 2018 (UTC)