Today in History - History - August 30th

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

1945Gen MacArthur lands in Japan

1682William Penn left England to sail to New World

1972John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden

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

1987Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee

1932Hermann Goering elected chairman of the Reichstag

1979Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match

2012Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open

1791Thomas Jefferson responds to Benjamin Banneker's letter on the issue of slavery

1930Warren Buffett, Omaha Nebraska, American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008)

1797Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

2006Billionaire Warren Buffett (76) weds longtime companion Astrid Menks (60) in Omaha

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

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

2003Charles Bronson, American actor, dies at 81

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

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