THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 30
August 30 in history
What happened on August 30: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1862, 1914 and 1958, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Second Battle of Bull Run
29–30 Aug 1862 — On the old Manassas ground, Jackson’s 54-mile flank march and Longstreet’s hammer blow rout Pope. In less than three months, Lee has shifted the fighting from Richmond’s gates to Washington’s.
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— Destruction of Louvain
25-30 Aug 1914 — Frightened by rumors of francs-tireurs, German troops burn the medieval university city of Louvain and its library of 300,000 books. They shoot 248 civilians. Across the invasion, some 6,500 Belgian and French civilians are killed. Remember them.
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— Beidaihe conference
17–30 Aug 1958 — At this seaside resort, the Politburo endorsed the communes and doubled the year’s steel target to 10.7 million tonnes, twice the output of 1957. Within weeks some 90 million people were feeding pots, pans and tools into backyard furnaces. Most of the product was brittle pig iron of little use.
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