Reuters
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 30:
1918 - Vladimir Lenin, leader of Soviet Russia, was shot and wounded by Fanya Kaplan after speaking at a factory in Moscow.
1973 - Kenya banned the hunting of elephants and trade in ivory.
1991 - Mike Powell of the United States breaks world record for long jump.
1999 - East Timor voted massively in favour of independence from Indonesia in a referendum that saw a 99 percent turnout.
2001 - Papua New Guinea and Bougainville island rebels signed a peace deal ending the South Pacific's longest-running conflict.
2003 - The American coal-miner-turned-tough-guy-actor Charles Bronson, a star of more than 60 films including the popular "Death Wish" series, died aged 81.
2008 - Libya and Italy signed an accord under which Italy will pay $5 billion in compensation for colonial misdeeds during its decades-long rule of the North African country.
2010 - Mount Sinabung volcano in Saka Nalu village, Indonesia erupts for the first time in centuries.
2012 - World record for mass-massaging set in Bangkok, Thailand.
2014 - Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane accuses his country's army of staging a coup, flees to South Africa.
