Today in History - History - August 30th

1918Fanya Kaplan shoots at Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, attempting to assassinate him

1945Gen MacArthur lands in Japan

1751George Frederic Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"

1922Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922

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

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

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

1831Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle

1682William Penn left England to sail to New World

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

2009Singer Davy Jones (63) weds Jessica Pacheco

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

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

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