Page 4: Historical Events In August - 30

1906  On August - 30 hal Chase became 1st Yank to hit 3 triples in a game   

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 August - 30.   

1908  Leonor Fini, painter on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1912  On this day in history st Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1   

1912  Edward M Purcell, US physicist (Nobel 1952) on August - 30.   

1913  On this day in history 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  On August - 30 allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)   

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  On August - 30 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed   

1914  Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat) on August - 30.   

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

1915  Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor on August - 30.   

1916  On August - 30 paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany   

1916  Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0 on August - 30.   

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

1919  On this day in history johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies   

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

1922  On this day in history 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  Regina Resnik, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Sieglinde-Bayreuth) on August - 30.   

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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  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 this day in history.   

0524  On August - 30 chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29   

0526  On this day in history 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 this day in history louis XI, King of France (1461-83), dies at 60   

1529  On this day in history juan del Encina, composer, dies at 61   

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