Today
Sunday August 30 2026
- Day of the year
- 242/ 365
- Week
- 352,026
- Days left
- 12366%
- Moon
- 93%Waning gibbous
Today is Sunday, August 30, 2026. It is day 242 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 123 remain, and 66% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 35.
What's celebrated on this date
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
WorldwideUnited Nations — International Days
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Rose of LimaDominican saint from Peru
- Alexander of ConstantinopleBishop of Byzantium and the first bishop of Constantinople
- Alfredo Ildefonso SchusterMetropolitan Archbishop of Milan and Cardinal of the Catholic Church, beatified in 1996
- FiacreIrish saint
- Jeanne JuganFrench saint
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:21
- Sunset
- 19:32
- Length of day
- 13h 10m−3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:57
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Summer
began on June 21, 2026
Next season
Autumn — 23 days, September 22, 2026 (September equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Labor Day — September 7, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waning gibbous
Illumination : 93%
Moon age : 17.9 days
- Next full moon
- September 26, 2026
- Next new moon
- September 11, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Virgo
until September 23, 2026 — Libra
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1282
Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers. Wikipedia
1464
Paul II succeeds Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church. Wikipedia
1813
First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance. Wikipedia
1914
World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg. Wikipedia
1918
Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. Wikipedia
1922
Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence). Wikipedia
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1963
The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation. Wikipedia
1981
President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing. The office of Iran's Prosecutor General blames the People's Mujahedin of Iran. Wikipedia
1984
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. Wikipedia
2023
Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day August 30
- 1748Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (died 1825)
- 1797Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (died 1851)
- 1852Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1911)
- 1856Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (died 1927)
- 1871Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)
- 1898Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (died 1992)
- 1937Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (died 1970)
- 1954Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarusturns 72 years
Died on this day August 30
- 1928Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)aged 64 years
- 1935Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (born 1873)aged 62 years
- 1940J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)aged 84 years
- 1961Charles Coburn, American actor (born 1877)aged 84 years
- 1970Abraham Zapruder, American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (born 1905)aged 65 years
- 1981Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (born 1921)aged 60 years
- 2006Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)aged 95 years
- 2022Mikhail Gorbachev, 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union (born 1931)aged 91 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 06:21 and sets at 19:32, giving 13h 10m of daylight — 3 minutes less than yesterday. It has been summer since June 21, 2026; autumn opens in 23 days, on September 22, 2026 (September equinox).
The moon is waning gibbous, 93% illuminated. The next full moon falls on September 26, 2026 and the next new moon on September 11, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches August 30 to Rose of Lima, Alexander of Constantinople and Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster.
August 30 is International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, designated by the United Nations or one of its agencies.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282); Paul II succeeds Pius II as pope of the Catholic Church (1464). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Jacques-Louis David was born on August 30, 1748; Wilhelm Wien died on August 30, 1928.
117 days remain until Christmas and 124 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — August 30 falls under the sign of Virgo.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 66%
- of the year elapsed
- 117
- until Christmas
- 124
- until New Year
- 548
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26