Historical Events In August - 30

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

1906  On this day in history countess of Longford, biographer/historian   

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 this day in history.   

1909  On this day in history 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 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  Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952) on August - 30.   

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  Allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children) on this day in history.   

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

1915  On this day in history liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor   

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

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 August - 30 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  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  On August - 30 birth of pedro of Castile (d. 1369)   

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  On this day in history birth of francesco Maria Vallara, composer   

1693  Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist was born on this day in history.   

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

1720  Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796) was born on August - 30.   

0524  Chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29 on August - 30.   

0526  Death of Theodorik the Great, King of Ostrogoten (b. 454) on this day in history.   

1181  On August - 30 alexander III, [Orlando Bandinelli], Italian Pope (1159-81), dies   

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

1529  Juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61 on August - 30.   

1580  On August - 30 emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy/governor of Netherlands, dies