August 30

Events

 * 1831 - Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electrical transformer
 * 1956 - Tony Crombie and the Rockets become first British rock-and-roll band to tour UK
 * 1959 - Bobby Darin hits US chart with 'Mack the Knife'
 * 1963 - the "Hot Line" communications link between the White House, Washington D.C. and the Kremlin, Moscow, went into operation to provide a direct two-way communications channel between the American and Soviet governments in the event of an international crisis.
 * 1972 - John and Yoko Lennon play 'One to One', their first 'oifficial' American solo concert, a benefit for New York's Willowbrook Hospital, at Madison Square Garden
 * 1973 - Denny Sewell quits Wings
 * 1975 - Bad Company's 'Feel Like Making Love' hits UK chart
 * 1975 - Steely Dan enter UK singles chart for the first time with 'Do it Again'
 * 1980 - Paul Simon's 'One Trick Pony' hits UK LP chart
 * 1980 - Gary Numan hits UK chart at No. 8 with 'I Die You Die'
 * 1984 - British Rail name new Intercity train after TV show 'Top of the Pops'
 * 1986 - Genesis' 'In Too Deep' hits UK chart

Births

 * 1907 - John W. Mauchly American physicist and engineer, who with John P. Eckert invented (1946) the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic computer.
 * 1915 - Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
 * 1919 - Kitty Wells, American singer
 * 1922 - Regina Resnik, American mezzo-soprano
 * 1935 - John Phillips, American singer (Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
 * 1939 - John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
 * 1944 - Chuck Colbert (American Breed)
 * 1945 - John Phillips (Mamas and the Papas)
 * 1949 - Peter Maffay, German musician
 * 1950 - Mick Moody (Whitesnake)
 * 1951 - Dana, Irish singer and politician
 * 1958 - Martin Jackson (Swing Out Sister)
 * 1960 - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (d. 1992)
 * 1969 - Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
 * 1970 - Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
 * 1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
 * 1978 - Swizz Beatz, American rapper/producer

Deaths

 * 1940 – J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate,discoverer of the electron (b. 1856)
 * 1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist who worked on the telegraphone and the Poulsen Arc Transmitter.(b. 1874)
 * 1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)