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.
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 »
77 Jacques-Louis David 8/30/1748 – 12/29/1825
French Neoclassicist painter53 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 8/30/1797 – 2/1/1851
English novelist; wrote “Frankenstein”58 Jacobus Hoff 8/30/1852 – 3/1/1911
Dutch/German first winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry (1901)66 Ernest Rutherford 8/30/1871 – 10/19/1937
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1908)42 Huey Long 8/30/1893 – 9/10/1935
American senator (1932-5) and powerful governor (1928-32) of Louisiana86 Raymond Massey 8/30/1896 – 7/29/1983
Canadian-American actor, director and producer68 John Gunther 8/30/1901 – 5/29/1970
American journalist and author83 Fred MacMurray 8/30/1908 – 11/5/1991
American motion-picture and television actor84 E. M. Purcell 8/30/1912 – 3/7/1997
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1952)78 Sir Richard Stone 8/30/1913 – 12/6/1991
English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1984)