August 30th, 1978

Born on August 30th, 1978

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 30th?

August 30th, 2007

A heavy bomber plane that had been unintentionally loaded with nuclear missiles transported them from North Dakota to Louisiana before they were recognized.

August 30th, 1992

German racing driver Michael Schumacher won the Belgian Grand Prix, the first of his 91 Formula One Grand Prix wins.

August 30th, 1990

Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing pornographic material.

August 30th, 1984

Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

August 30th, 1974

An express train carrying foreign workers from Yugoslavia to West Germany derailed in Zagreb, killing 153 people.

August 30th, 1959

South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Đán was elected to the National Assembly, despite soldiers being bussed in to vote multiple times for President Ngô Đình Diệm's candidate.

August 30th, 1942

Second World War: German field marshal Erwin Rommel launched the last major Axis offensive of the Western Desert campaign, attacking British positions near El Alamein, Egypt.

August 30th, 1914

World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg resulted in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army by the German 8th Army.

August 30th, 1594

James VI of Scotland held a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry, his first child.

August 30th, 1574

Guru Ram Das (pictured) became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.

August 30th, 2023

Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.

August 30th, 2021

The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.

August 30th, 2014

Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.

August 30th, 2002

Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.

August 30th, 1998

Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 30th

Born on August 30th, 1978

45

Sinead Kerr

Scottish-British ice dancer

*August 30th, 1978, Dundee

45

Cliff Lee

American baseball player (born 1978)

*August 30th, 1978, Benton

45

Svetoslav Todorov

Bulgarian footballer

*August 30th, 1978, Dobrich

45

Andrew Ryan

Australian rugby league footballer

*August 30th, 1978, Dubbo

45

Verónika Moral

Spanish actress

*August 30th, 1978, Burgos

45

Maksim Shatskikh

Uzbekistani footballer

*August 30th, 1978, Tashkent

45

Vineet Raina

Indian bollywood film and television actor

*August 30th, 1978, Jammu and Kashmir

45

Gianpaolo Venuta

Canadian actor

*August 30th, 1978, Montreal

45

Stacy Marie Fuson

American Playboy model

*August 30th, 1978, Tacoma

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 30th?

39

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

52

Martin Gerster

German politician

*August 30th, 1971, Biberach an der Riss

44

Marin Ireland

American actress

*August 30th, 1979, Camarillo

40

Simone Pepe

Italian association football player

*August 30th, 1983, Albano Laziale

51

Cameron Diaz

American actress and model

*August 30th, 1972, San Diego

47

Nikolai Astrup

Norwegian painter (1880-1928)

*August 30th, 1880, Bremanger Municipality †January 21st, 1928, Førde

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

40

Mehdi Mostefa

Algerian and French footballer

*August 30th, 1983, Dijon

46

Félix Sánchez

Dominican track and field athlete

*August 30th, 1977, Manhattan

56

Barbara Kendall

New Zealand windsurfer

*August 30th, 1967, Papakura District

41

Andy Roddick

American tennis player

*August 30th, 1982, Omaha

51

Pavel Nedvěd

Czech association football player

*August 30th, 1972, Cheb

35

Tim Ohlbrecht

German basketball player

*August 30th, 1988, Wuppertal

89

Rolf Henniger

German actor (1925-2015)

*August 30th, 1925, Erfurt †August 15th, 2015, Berlin

46

Shaun Alexander

American football player (born 1977)

*August 30th, 1977, Florence

54

Sara Ahmed

British-Australian scholar (b. 1969)

*August 30th, 1969, Salford

66

Ernest Rutherford

British physicist of New Zealand origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908) (1871–1937)

*August 30th, 1871, Nelson †October 19th, 1937, Cambridge

32

Gaia Weiss

French model and actress

*August 30th, 1991, Paris

93

Warren Buffett

American investor, entrepreneur and businessman

*August 30th, 1930, Omaha

46

Jens Ludwig

German musician

*August 30th, 1977, Fulda

Same year
Born in 1978

45

Miroslav Klose

German association football player

*June 9th, 1978, Opole

45

Ani Lorak

Ukrainian singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur

*September 27th, 1978, Kitsman

45

Joachim Fischer Nielsen

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1978, Copenhagen

45

Vibeke Stene

Gothic metal soprano singer, ex female vocals of Tristania

*August 17th, 1978, Sokndal

46

Malin Arvidsson

Swedish actress and dancer

*February 19th, 1978, El Salvador

45

Marit Berger Røsland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*September 21st, 1978, Lørenskog

45

Ella Diehl

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1978, Samara

46

Didier Drogba

Ivorian and French association football player

*March 11th, 1978, Abidjan

46

Jonas Dahl

Danish politician

*February 26th, 1978, Randers

45

Kim Yong-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*May 13th, 1978, Incheon

45

Yim Bang-eun

Badminton player

*April 25th, 1978, Incheon

46

Chris Blair

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1978, Invercargill

45

Konstrakta

Serbian singer-songwriter

*October 12th, 1978, Belgrade

45

Jessica Pilnäs

Swedish singer

*July 5th, 1978, Åryd

45

Poo Bear

American songwriter and singer

*September 4th, 1978, Connecticut

46

Jamie Carragher

English footballer and sportcaster

*January 28th, 1978, Bootle

46

Aparna Popat

Indian badminton player

*January 18th, 1978, Mumbai

46

Gianluigi Buffon

Former Italian footballer (born 1978)

*January 28th, 1978, Carrara

46

Donna Kellogg

Badminton player

*January 20th, 1978, Derby

45

Rio Ferdinand

English association football player (born 1978)

*November 7th, 1978, Camberwell

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1978 is a normal year and no leap year.

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