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 — Jackson’s 54-mile flank march and Longstreet’s hammer blow rout Pope on the old Manassas ground. In under three months Lee has moved the war from Richmond’s gates to Washington’s.
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— Destruction of Louvain
25-30 Aug 1914 — German troops, panicked by rumors of francs-tireurs, burn the medieval university city and its library of 300,000 books, and shoot 248 civilians. Some 6,500 Belgian and French civilians are killed in the invasion. Remember them.
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— Beidaihe conference
17–30 Aug 1958 — At the seaside resort the Politburo endorses the communes and doubles the year’s steel target to 10.7 million tonnes, twice the output of 1957. Within weeks some 90 million people are feeding backyard furnaces with pots, pans and tools; most of what came out was brittle pig iron of little use.
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