Page 4: Historical Events In August - 30

1906  On August - 30 hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game   

1906  Countess of Longford, biographer/historian on August - 30.   

1907  On this day in history fred MacMurray, Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons)   

1908  On this day in history the birth of Fred MacMurray, American actor   

1908  On this day in history leonor Fini, painter   

1909  On August - 30 burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.   

1909  Barry Appleby, cartoonist on this day in history.   

1910  Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11 on August - 30.   

1910  Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes) on August - 30.   

1910  Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1912  On this day in history st Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1   

1912  On August - 30 edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952)   

1913  On this day in history uS Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot)   

1913  On August - 30 phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled   

1913  On this day in history allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)   

1914  On this day in history battle of Tannenberg, one of history's great military disasters, ends after the Russian Second Army under Samsonov is enveloped and crushed by the Germans, losing 30,000 men; Samsonov committed suicide.   

1914  1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed on August - 30.   

1914  On August - 30 julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat)   

1914  Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26 on this day in history.   

1915  On August - 30 liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor   

1916  Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany on this day in history.   

1916  Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0 on August - 30.   

1916  On this day in history john Thoday, geneticist   

1917  On August - 30 denis Healey, English politician   

1917  Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies on August - 30.   

1918  Czechoslovakia forms independence republic on this day in history.   

1918  On this day in history ted Williams, American baseball player, last player in MLB to bat over .400 in a single season (Red Sox, AL MVP '46, '49; Trip Crown '42, '47)   

1919  Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin on this day in history.   

1919  On this day in history kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)   

1919  Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies on this day in history.   

1920  Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud) on August - 30.   

1922  On this day in history tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.   

1922  Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922 on this day in history.   

1922  Regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth) on this day in history.   

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1334  On August - 30 birth of pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon   

1334  On this day in history birth of pedro of Castile (d. 1369)   

1377  On this day in history birth of shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)   

1609  Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised was born on this day in history.   

1687  Francesco Maria Vallara, composer was born on August - 30.   

1693  On August - 30 birth of jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist   

1705  David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757) was born on August - 30.   

1720  Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796) was born on August - 30.   

0524  On this day in history chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29   

0526  On this day in history death of theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten (b. 454)   

1181  Alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies on this day in history.   

1428  On August - 30 death of emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)   

1482  On August - 30 louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies   

1483  On August - 30 louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60   

1529  On August - 30 juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61   

1580  Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies on this day in history.