^{“The Loyalty of Torii Suneemon,” an ukiyo-e of the campaigns of Tokugawa Ieyasu}

Today in History

• Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle, beginning the Tokugawa Shogunate (1590)
• The Burgess Shale fossils are discovered (1909)
• General Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan following the Japanese surrender (1945)
• The Moscow-Washington hotline becomes active (1963)
• Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American Supreme Court Justice (1967)

Birthdays

• Samuel Whitbread, brewer (1720)
• Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1797)
• Ernest Rutherford, physicist (1871)
• Huey Long, Louisiana governor (1893)
• Raymond Massey, actor (1896)
• Shirley Booth, actress (1898)
• Joan Blondell, actress (1906)
• Fred MacMurray, actress (1908)
• Ted Williams, baseball player (1918)
• Kitty Wells, singer-songwriter (1919)
• Laurent de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the Elephant (1925)
• Bill Daily, actor (1927)
• Johnny Mann, singer-songwriter (1928)
• Warren Buffett, investor (1930)
• Jack Swigert, astronaut (1931)
• John Phillips, member of the Mamas and the Papas (1935)
• Elizabeth Ashley, actress (1939)
• Robert Crumb, comics artist (1943)
• Jean-Claude Killy, skier (1943)
• Molly Ivins, columnist (1944)
• Tug McGraw, baseball player (1944)
• Peggy Lipton, actress (1946)
• Lewis Black, comedian (1948)
• Timothy Bottoms, actor (1951)
• Michael Chiklis, actor (1963)
• Cameron Diaz, actress (1972)
• Shaun Alexander, football player (1977)

Deaths

• Max Factor, Sr., make-up artist (1938)
• Charles Coburn, actor (1961)
• Guy Burgess, spy (1963)
• Jean Seberg, actress (1979)
• Vera-Ellen, actress and dancer (1981)
• Taylor Caldwell, author (1985)
• Charles Bronson, actor (2003)
• Fred Whipple, astronomer (2004)
• Glenn Ford, actor (2006)
• Killer Kowalski, wrestler (2008)
• Wes Craven, filmmaker (2015)
• Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author (2015)

Holidays and Observances

• Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)
• Constitution Day (Turks and Caicos)
• Independence Day (Tartarstan, not formally recognized)
• International Cabernet Sauvignon Day
• International Whale Shark Day
• International Day of the Disappeared
• Popular Constitution Day (East Timor)
• Saint Rose of Lima’s Day (Peru)
• Victory Day(Turky)

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years). There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year.