Historical Events In August - 30

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

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 August - 30 the birth of Fred MacMurray, American actor  

1908  On August - 30 leonor Fini, painter  

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

1909  On this day in history barry Appleby, cartoonist  

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

1910  On this day in history donald Bisset, Dutch children book writer/actor (Battle of the Sexes)  

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

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

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

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

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

1913  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history.  

1918  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) on August - 30.  

1919  On August - 30 ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin  

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

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

1377  On August - 30 birth of shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)  

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

1687  On August - 30 birth of francesco Maria Vallara, composer  

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

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

1720  On August - 30 birth of samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)  

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

1428  On this day in history death of emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)  

1482  On this day in history louis van Bourbon, prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers), dies  

1483  Louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60 on August - 30.  

1529  Juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

1580  On this day in history emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies