Today in History - History - August 30th

192741st US Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall (61 64)

1890President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products

1979US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga

1905Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro

1751George Frederic Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"

1932Hermann Goering elected chairman of the Reichstag

1961Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game

2006Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game

1979Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated

1972John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden

1943Robert Crumb, US, cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat)

1918Ted 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)

1797Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)

1334Pedro, the Cruel, Burgos, Spanish King of Castilia & Leon

1871Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), (d. 1937)

1972Cameron Diaz, Long Beach, California, American actress (Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding)

1982Andy Roddick, Austin Texas, American tennis player (2003 US Open champion)

1923Elias Victor Seixas, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, American tennis player (Wimbeldon and U.S. Open champion)

2009Singer Davy Jones (63) weds Jessica Pacheco

2008"The Sopranos" actor James Gandolfini (46) weds former model Deborah Lin (40) at Central Union Church in Honolulu, Hawaii

1940CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (22) weds Norma Kaphan in Brookline, Massachusetts

1994R&B singer R. Kelly (25) weds Aaliyah

2003Charles Bronson, American actor, dies at 81

1981Vera-Ellen, actress (Big Leaguer, On the Town), dies of cancer at 60

2013Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature)

1940J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)