Today in History - History - August 30th

2006Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game

1945Gen MacArthur lands in Japan

1831Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle

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

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

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

1751George Frederic Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"

1682William Penn left England to sail to New World

1967US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

2009Singer Davy Jones (63) weds Jessica Pacheco

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

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

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)

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