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- 1889
- Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant Mail Centre opens in London.
- 1913
- Romania annexes Southern Dobruja.
- 1940
- The Second Vienna Award reassigns Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
- 1944
- During World War II, the Königsberg Castle is reduced to ruins and many more buildings are destroyed in the bombing of Königsberg.
- 1945
- The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong ends as the Imperial Japanese Army hands Hong Kong back to the British Royal Navy.
- 1946
- Rhineland-Palatinate is founded as a state of Germany.
- 1994
- A Meijer supercenter opens in Southgate, Michigan.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 30, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 30 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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