Year 1574
Ram Das became the 4th Sikh Guru.
AUGUST 30
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30 August: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 30 August.
Year 1659
Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s son Dara Shikoh was put to death by his younger brother Aurangzeb.
Year 1751
The British under Clive, captured Arcot from Chanda Sahib.
Year 1773
Peshwa Narayanrao was murdered by his uncle Raghunath Rao.
Year 1928
Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of India.
Year 1979
1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun, releases energy equal to one million hydrogen bombs.
Year 1983
8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days).
Year 1984
12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days).
Born 1883
Swami Kuvalayananda was a researcher and educator who is primarily known for his pioneering research into the scientific foundations of yoga.
Born 1903
Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (d. 1981)
Born 1916
Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968)
Born 1918
Binayak Acharya was an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Odisha from 29 December 1976 to 30 April 1977.
Born 1935
Surai Sasai, a Japanese-born Indian Buddhist monk who later chose India as his home.
Born 1944
Bola Chittaranjan Das Shetty was famous Tulu and Kannada writer, who was the president of the 16th Mangalore Taluk Kannada Sahitya Sammelan.
Born 1954
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer, politician and the current Union Minister holding the Law and Justice.
Born 1965
Shekhar Gurera, Indian editorial cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer.
Born 1976
Chitrangada Singh, Indian film actress who works primarily in Hindi cinema.
Born 1979
Anu Choudhury, leading Indian actress.
Born 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.
Born 1980
Richa Pallod, Indian model and film actress who has been featured in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films.
Born 1980
Subramaniam Badrinath, former Indian cricketer.
Born 1980
Amisha Sethi, Indian author, philanthropist, business leader and model.
Born 1981
Swapna Dutt, Indian film producer based in Hyderabad.
Born 1982
Rajbeer Singh, Indian film and television actor and model.
Born 1984
Ashish Sharma, Indian film and television actor.
Born 1991
Guru Randhawa, Indian singer, songwriter and music composer associated with Punjabi, Bhangra, Indi-pop and Bollywood music.
Born 1995
Addy Raj, Indian actor, model, singer and former exchange student in the Philippines.
Died 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.
Died 1886
Prasanna Kumar Tagore was a son of Gopi Mohan Tagore, one of the founders of Hindu College.
Died 1963
Tiruchengodu Ramalingam Sundaram Mudaliar was an Indian film actor, director, and producer.
Died 1981
Niharranjan Ray was an Indian Bengali historian, well known for his works on the history of Art and Buddhism.
Died 1981
Jayant Pandurang Naik was an Indian educator.
Died 2008
Krishna Kumar Birla was an Indian industrialist of the Birla family.
Died 2008
N N Pisharody was a director in the Malayalam Film industry.
Died 2014
Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic (b. 1928)
Died 2015
M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (b. 1938)