Updated August 29, 2012, 2:28 pm
On Aug. 30, 1963, the hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.
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On Aug. 30, 1898, Shirley Booth, American stage, screen, radio and television actress, was born. Following her death on October 16, 1992, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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Shirley Booth 8/30/1898 – 10/16/1992 American stage, screen, radio, and television actress.Go to obituary »
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Jacques-Louis David 8/30/1748 – 12/29/1825
French Neoclassicist painter |
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 8/30/1797 – 2/1/1851
English novelist; wrote “Frankenstein” |
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Jacobus Hoff 8/30/1852 – 3/1/1911
Dutch/German first winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry (1901) |
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Ernest Rutherford 8/30/1871 – 10/19/1937
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1908) |
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Huey Long 8/30/1893 – 9/10/1935
American senator (1932-5) and powerful governor (1928-32) of Louisiana |
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Raymond Massey 8/30/1896 – 7/29/1983
Canadian-American actor, director and producer |
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John Gunther 8/30/1901 – 5/29/1970
American journalist and author |
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Fred MacMurray 8/30/1908 – 11/5/1991
American motion-picture and television actor |
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E. M. Purcell 8/30/1912 – 3/7/1997
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1952) |
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Sir Richard Stone 8/30/1913 – 12/6/1991
English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1984) |
