Today in History - History - August 30th

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

1967US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice

1937Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1945Gen MacArthur lands in Japan

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

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

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

1972John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden

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

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

1797Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2003Charles Bronson, American actor, dies at 81

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