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  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  Leonor Fini, painter on August - 30.   

1909  Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott on August - 30.   

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 this day in history.   

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  St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1 on August - 30.   

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

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

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

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 this day in history 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed   

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  Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor on this day in history.   

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

1916  On August - 30 boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0   

1916  On this day in history john Thoday, geneticist   

1917  Denis Healey, English politician on August - 30.   

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

1918  On this day in history czechoslovakia forms independence republic   

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 this day in history.   

1919  On this day in history ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin   

1919  On August - 30 kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)   

1919  On August - 30 johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies   

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

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

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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  Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447) was born on this day in history.   

1609  Artus I Quellinus "the Old", Flemish sculptor, baptised was born on August - 30.   

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

1693  Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist was born on August - 30.   

1705  On this day in history 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  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 August - 30.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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