August 30 - Let There Be Cake

Let There Be Cake

Family Birthdays

Cousin Nick Krewson

This Day In History

526

King Theodoric the Great dies at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year old son Athalaric.

1873

Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

1909

Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

1956

The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.

1963

The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

1984

The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

Famous Birthdays

1720

Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)

1748

Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)

1797

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)

1860

Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)

1908

Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)

1918

Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)

1931

John Leonard "Jack" Swigert, Jr., American astronaut (d. 1982)

1943

Jean-Claude Killy, French skier

1944

Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)

1963

Michael Chiklis, American actor

1978

Cliff Lee, American baseball player

1982

Andy Roddick, American tennis player