345 Historic Events for August 30
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| 1912 |
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St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
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| 1913 |
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Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Thomas Torrance, theologist
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| 1913 |
Birth |
Allan David, actor/director/producer (Cry of the Children)
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| 1914 |
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Adrian H Stewart, British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
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| 1914 |
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Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
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| 1914 |
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1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Julie Bishop, Denver CO, actress (My Hero, Northern Pursuit, Threat)
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| 1914 |
Death |
Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide
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| 1914 |
Birth |
Rafael Jose Luis Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur
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| 1915 |
Birth |
Liesbeth Saijers, Dutch sculptor
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Kornelis M R van der Beek, reformed vicar (Arnhem)
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker
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| 1916 |
Birth |
John Thoday, geneticist
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| 1916 |
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Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
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| 1916 |
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Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
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| 1917 |
Death |
Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies
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| 1917 |
Birth |
Denis Healey, English politician
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| 1918 |
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Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin
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| 1918 |
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Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech
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| 1918 |
Birth |
Ted Williams, Baseball's last .400 hitter (Boston Red Sox)
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| 1918 |
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Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
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| 1919 |
Death |
Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies
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| 1919 |
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Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung," premieres in Berlin
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| 1919 |
Birth |
Kitty Wells, Nashville Tn, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
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