Dog rose, photo by PH Morton
Thought for the Day
“Leaving in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.”
– J. B. Priestly
30 August
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
- Oliver Morton
- Tony Yang (1982) (44)
- Matsumoto Jun
- Liu Min (1979) (47)
- Marco Chen
- Jiang Xue Ming
- Shen Zhao Cheng (1997)(29)
- Zhang Hao Yang (2000) (26)
World News
- 30 August 2022: Mikhail Gorbachev, a former President of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91. He made glasnost and perestroika popular.
Astronomy
- 30 August 2023: Today has a Blue Super Moon in the night sky. It is so called blue because it happens so rarely. The next blue moon will be in 2037.