Daily Calendar for August 30th, 2017

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• 30 B.C. Cleopatra commits suicide by permitting an asp to bite her

1790s

• Born 1797: Mary Shelley (writer )

1830s

• Born 1837: Ellen Arthur (wife of U.S. president Chester Arthur; died before he took office)

1870s

• Born 1871: Ernest Rutherford (physicist)

1890s

• Born 1893: Huey Long (politician)

• Born 1896: Raymond Massey (actor)

1900s

• Born 1901: Roy Wilkins (civil rights leader)

1910s

• Born 1918: Ted Williams (baseball player)

1920s

• Born 1927: Geoffrey Beene (fashion designer)

1940s

• Born 1943: Jean-Claude Killy (Olympic gold medalist, skiing)

• Born 1944: Tug McGraw (baseball player)

1950s

• 1959: Streetcar service ended in Montreal, Quebec

1960s

• 1963: Hotline between the White House and the Kremlin installed

• 1967: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

1970s

• Born 1972: Cameron Diaz (actress)

1980s

• 1983: First night launch of a space shuttle (Challenger), Kennedy Space Center, Florida

• 1983: Astronaut Guion Bluford became the first African-American to reach space

• 1988: Vicki Keith became the first person to swim across all five Great Lakes

• 1989: Hotel Queen Leona Helmsley convicted on tax evasion charges, later sentenced to four years in prison and fined $8.8 million

1990s

• Died 1994: Lindsay Anderson (director of film)

• 1997: Tennis player Greg Rusedski served a ball at 141 mph at the U.S. Open in New York City

2000s

• Died 2003: Charles Bronson (actor)

• 2006: Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox became the 14th MLB pitcher to reach 3,000 career strikeouts

• Died 2006: Glenn Ford (actor)

2010s

• Died 2015: Wes Craven (filmmaker)