📜 This Day in History

August 30

• 70First Jewish–Roman War: Roman forces led by Titus set fire to the Second Temple during the siege of Jerusalem.
• 1800Gabriel Prosser planned to hold a slave rebellion in Virginia, U.S., but it was postponed due to rain; he was captured before he could reschedule it.
• 1942British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against their Japanese captors, who required them to pledge not to escape.
• 1967Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice.
• 1984Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
• 2025Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy was assassinated in Lviv, Ukraine.

Born on this day

• 1797Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (died 1851)
• 1871Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)
• 1930Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1954Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus