Page 4: Historical Events In August - 30

1906  Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game on August - 30.   

1906  On August - 30 countess of Longford, biographer/historian   

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

1908  The birth of Fred MacMurray, American actor on this day in history.   

1908  Leonor Fini, painter on August - 30.   

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

1909  On August - 30 barry Appleby, cartoonist   

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

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

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

1912  St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1 on this day in history.   

1912  On this day in history edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952)   

1913  US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot) on this day in history.   

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  Allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children) on August - 30.   

1914  On August - 30 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  Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat) on this day in history.   

1914  On this day in history adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26   

1915  Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor on August - 30.   

1916  Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany on August - 30.   

1916  On this day in history boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0   

1916  John Thoday, geneticist on this day in history.   

1917  On August - 30 denis Healey, English politician   

1917  Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies on this day in history.   

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

1922  On August - 30 babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922   

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  Pedro of Castile (d. 1369) was born on this day in history.   

1377  On August - 30 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 this day in history.   

1693  On this day in history 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  Chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29 on August - 30.   

0526  On August - 30 death of theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten (b. 454)   

1181  On this day in history alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies   

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

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