This Day in History on 30 August
The historical events hold a lot of value for aspirants who are sitting for UPSC competitive exams including the IAS Exam.
On this page, we will list all historical events that occurred on 30 August. The students can refer to them while preparing for all competitive exams and banking exams.
Important Days
International Day of the Disappeared
Important Events
1574: Ram Das became the 4th Sikh Guru.
1659: Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s son Dara Shikoh was put to death by his younger brother Aurangzeb.
1751: The British under Clive, captured Arcot from Chanda Sahib.
1773: Peshwa Narayanrao was murdered by his uncle Raghunath Rao.
1928: Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India.
1979: 1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun, releases energy equal to one million hydrogen bombs.
1983: 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days).
1984: 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days).
Birth/Birth Anniversary
1883: Swami Kuvalayananda was a researcher and educator who is primarily known for his pioneering research into the scientific foundations of yoga.
1903: Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (d. 1981)
1916: Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968)
1918: Binayak Acharya was an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Odisha from 29 December 1976 to 30 April 1977.
1935: Surai Sasai, a Japanese-born Indian Buddhist monk who later chose India as his home.
1944: Bola Chittaranjan Das Shetty was famous Tulu and Kannada writer, who was the president of the 16th Mangalore Taluk Kannada Sahitya Sammelan.
1954: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer, politician and the current Union Minister holding the Law and Justice.
1965:Shekhar Gurera, Indian editorial cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer.
1976: Chitrangada Singh, Indian film actress who works primarily in Hindi cinema.
1979: Anu Choudhury, leading Indian actress.
1979: Juspreet Singh Walia, Indian film producer, assistant director, restaurateur, celebrity manager and a yogi who is primarily known for his work in Hindi films.
1980: Richa Pallod, Indian model and film actress who has been featured in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films.
1980: Subramaniam Badrinath, former Indian cricketer.
1980: Amisha Sethi, Indian author, philanthropist, business leader and model.
1981: Swapna Dutt, Indian film producer based in Hyderabad.
1982: Rajbeer Singh, Indian film and television actor and model.
1984: Ashish Sharma, Indian film and television actor.
1991: Guru Randhawa, Indian singer, songwriter and music composer associated with Punjabi, Bhangra, Indi-pop and Bollywood music.
1995: Addy Raj, Indian actor, model, singer and former exchange student in the Philippines.
Death/ Death Anniversary
1877: Toru Dutt was a Bengali translator and poet from the Indian subcontinent, who wrote in English and French, in what was then British India.
1886: Prasanna Kumar Tagore was a son of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College.
1963: Tiruchengodu Ramalingam Sundaram Mudaliar was an Indian film actor, director, and producer.
1981: Niharranjan Ray was an Indian Bengali historian, well known for his works on the history of Art and Buddhism.
1981: Jayant Pandurang Naik was an Indian educator.
2008: Krishna Kumar Birla was an Indian industrialist of the Birla family.
2008: N N Pisharody was a director in the Malayalam Film industry.
2014: Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic (b. 1928)
2015: M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (b. 1938)