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March 8, 1930

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Notable Births

Bob Grim (baseball)

1930Bob Grim, American baseball player (died 1996)[โ€ ]

Robert Anton Grim was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Douglas Hurd

1930Douglas Hurd, English politician[โ€ ]

Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, is a British Conservative Party politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995.

Notable Deaths

William Howard Taft

1930William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States (born 1857)[โ€ ]

William Howard Taft served as the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices.

Edward Terry Sanford

1930Edward Terry Sanford, American jurist and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (born 1865)[โ€ ]

Edward Terry Sanford was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1930. Prior to his nomination to the high court, Sanford served as a United States Assistant Attorney General under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1905 to 1907, and as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee from 1908 to 1923. As of 2025, he is the last sitting district court judge to be elevated directly to the Supreme Court.

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