August 30 in history: • 1800 – Gabriel Prosser planned to hold a slave rebellion in Virginia, U.S., but it was postponed due to rain; he was captured before he could reschedule it. → go there • 1896 – Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a powder magazine before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison. → go there • 1942 – British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against their Japanese captors, who required them to pledge not to escape. → go there • 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice. → go there • 1974 – A bomb exploded at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, killing eight people. → go there • 2025 – Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy (pictured) was assassinated in Lviv, Ukraine. → go there Born 1899: Frieda Fraser Wiki link Born 1972: Pavel Nedvěd Wiki link Died 2022: Mikhail Gorbachev Wiki link Pictured: [[Andriy Parubiy]].