30 August in Indian and World History is celebrated, observed, and remembered for various reasons.30 August is the birth anniversary of Bhagwaticharan Verma, Ravi Shankar Prasad, and Jasmine Lamboria.
30 August is also observed as the death anniversary of Ganga Prasad Srivastava, and Bipin Chandra.
Birth Anniversary
30 August in Indian history is observed as the birth anniversary of the following personalities:
Bhagwaticharan Verma (30 August 1903 – 5 October 1981) was a prominent Hindi writer. He worked mainly in the field of writing and journalism. As a poet, Bhagwaticharan Verma’s radio metaphors ‘Mahakal’, ‘Karna’ and ‘Draupadi’ – which were published in the form of an anthology called ‘Tripathaga’ in 1956, are his special works. She was born on 30 August 1903 in Uttar Pradesh.
Ravi Shankar Prasad is a lawyer and politician. Apart from this, he has been the ‘Minister of Electronics and Information Technology and Law’ in the Government of India in the Seventeenth Lok Sabha. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha in the Parliament and represents the state of Bihar. He was born on 30 August 1954 in Patna, Bihar.
Jasmine Lamboria is a female boxer from India. He has won a bronze medal for the country in the Commonwealth Games, 2022 held at Birmingham, England. She won the women’s 60 kg. Won this medal in the (light weight) category. She was born on 30 August 2001 in Bhiwani, Haryana.
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Death Anniversary
30 August in Indian history is observed as the death anniversary of the following personalities:
Ganga Prasad Srivastava (23 April 1889 – 30 August 1976) was a Hindi writer. Ganga Prasad was a good storyteller, story writer as well as a better actor. He has acted strongly in many plays. During that time Shrivastav ji was a strong actor of one act.
Bipin Chandra (27 May 1928 – 30 August 2014) was an eminent historian and former chairman of the National Book Trust. Professor Bipin Chandra was a historian of the Marxist school of thought in India’s freedom struggle and modern historiography tradition.
Notable events on 30 August in Indian and World History
30 August 1659 – Dara Shikoh was hanged by Aurangzeb.
30 August 1682 – William Penn departs from England and later establishes the Pennsylvania Colony in America.
30 August 1780 – General Benedict Arnold promises to surrender to British forces at West Point Fort.
30 August 1797 – Mary Shelley a prominent English novelist known for her groundbreaking work in the Gothic genre, was born.
30 August 1806 – The ‘Daily Advertiser’, the second daily newspaper in New York City, is published for the last time.
30 August 1863 – Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky a notable Russian chemist and photographer, was born.
30 August 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealand physicist, and Nobel Prize Laureate, was born.
30 August 1884 – Theodor Svedberg, a Swedish chemist, and Nobel Prize Laureate was born.
30 August 1903 – Bhagwati Charan Verma, a Hindi author, was born.
30 August 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell an American physicist, and Nobel Prize Laureate, was born.
30 August 1913 – Richard Stone, a British economist, and Nobel Prize Laureate, was born.
30 August 1928 – The Independence of India League was established in India.
30 August 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, a prominent German physicist, and Nobel Prize Laureate, died.
30 August 1933 – Prayoon Yomyiam a renowned Thai folk singer who gained widespread recognition for her mastery of traditional music, was born.
30 August 1940 – J.J. Thomson a British physicist, and Nobel Prize Laureate, died.
30 August 1947- A committee was formed under the leadership of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar to draft the Indian Constitution.
30 August 1991 – Azerbaijan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
30 August 1999 – Referendum completed for the independence of East Timor.
30 August 1999 – Residents of East Timor overwhelmingly vote for independence from Indonesia.
30 August 2002- Earthquake tremors were felt in Taiwan.
30 August 2002 – Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum merge to form ConocoPhillips.
30 August 2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, a prominent Egyptian writer, and Nobel Prize Laureate, died.
30 August 2007 – Two German scientists Gunter Nimitz and Alphonse Stalhofen claimed to falsify Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.
30 August 2013 – Seamus Heaney, a renowned Irish poet, and Nobel Prize Laureate, died.
30 August 2014 – Prime Minister of South African country Lesotho, Tom Thabane, fled to South Africa after alleged coup attempts by the army.
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