Page 4: Historical Events In August - 30

1906  Hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game on this day in history.   

1906  Countess of Longford, biographer/historian on this day in history.   

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  Leonor Fini, painter on this day in history.   

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

1909  Barry Appleby, cartoonist on August - 30.   

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

1910  On August - 30 donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes)   

1910  On August - 30 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  US Navy tests Sperry gyroscopic stabilizer (automatic pilot) on August - 30.   

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 August - 30 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 this day in history.   

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

1914  On August - 30 adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26   

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 this day in history.   

1916  On August - 30 john Thoday, geneticist   

1917  Denis Healey, English politician on this day in history.   

1917  On August - 30 uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies   

1918  Czechoslovakia forms independence republic on this day in history.   

1918  On August - 30 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  On this day in history ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin   

1919  Kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry) on August - 30.   

1919  Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies on August - 30.   

1920  Ben Cami, Flemish writer/poet (Rose from Mud) on this day in history.   

1922  Tiger Rag, still a familiar ragtime tune, is recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings on August - 30.   

1922  Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922 on August - 30.   

1922  On this day in history 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  On August - 30 birth of pedro of Castile (d. 1369)   

1377  Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447) was born on August - 30.   

1609  On this day in history birth of artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised   

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

1693  On this day in history birth of jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist   

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

1720  On this day in history birth of samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)   

0524  Chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29 on this day in history.   

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  Death of Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401) on this day in history.   

1482  Louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies