Page 4: Historical Events In August - 30

1906  On this day in history hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game   

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

1907  Fred MacMurray, Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons) on this day in history.   

1908  On August - 30 the birth of Fred MacMurray, American actor   

1908  On this day in history leonor Fini, painter   

1909  On this day in history burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.   

1909  Barry Appleby, cartoonist on August - 30.   

1910  On this day in history yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11   

1910  Donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes) on this day in history.   

1910  On this day in history albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57   

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 August - 30 uS Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot)   

1913  On this day in history 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 August - 30 allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)   

1914  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 on August - 30.   

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

1914  Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat) on August - 30.   

1914  Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26 on August - 30.   

1915  Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor on August - 30.   

1916  On August - 30 paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany   

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

1916  John Thoday, geneticist on August - 30.   

1917  On this day in history denis Healey, English politician   

1917  On this day in history uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies   

1918  Czechoslovakia forms independence republic on August - 30.   

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 August - 30 kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)   

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

1920  On this day in history ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud)   

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

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

1922  On August - 30 regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth)   

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1334  Pedro, the Cruel, King of Castilia & Leon was born on this day in history.   

1334  Pedro of Castile (d. 1369) was born on August - 30.   

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 August - 30.   

1687  Francesco Maria Vallara, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1705  On August - 30 birth of david Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)   

1720  Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796) was born on this day in history.   

0524  On August - 30 chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29   

0526  Death of Theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten (b. 454) on August - 30.   

1181  Alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies on August - 30.   

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

1482  Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies on August - 30.   

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

1529  On this day in history juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61   

1580  Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies on August - 30.