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Months in Year 1930: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 100 of 331

Jan 1st - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant
Jan 1st - Jurgens & Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever
Jan 5th - Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
Jan 6th - 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
Jan 6th - Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours
Jan 7th - Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC
Jan 8th - Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto
Jan 9th - Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
Jan 10th - Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England Christchurch
Jan 10th - Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
Jan 10th - Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
Jan 12th - NHL's Boston Bruins win then-record 14th consecutive game
Jan 13th - "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
Jan 15th - George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176)
Jan 18th - -27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
Jan 18th - Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
Jan 20th - 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
Jan 22nd - -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
Jan 23rd - Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
Jan 23rd - George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Va established
Jan 23rd - WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
Jan 24th - J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington
Jan 24th - Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
Jan 26th - Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
Jan 30th - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad
Jan 30th - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
Jan 31st - 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, NJ
Feb 1st - Arnold Schoenbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
Feb 3rd - Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
Feb 3rd - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
Feb 3rd - The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
Feb 4th - 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
Feb 5th - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
Feb 8th - "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
Feb 10th - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
Feb 15th - Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
Feb 17th - French govt of Tardieu, falls
Feb 18th - Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
Feb 18th - Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan
Feb 18th - Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in NYC
Feb 18th - US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
Feb 20th - Capelle soccer team forms
Feb 21st - Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC
Feb 25th - Check photographing device patented
Feb 25th - George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v Engld (114 & 112)
Feb 26th - "Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
Feb 26th - 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
Feb 26th - West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
Feb 27th - Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
Mar 2nd - 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
Mar 4th - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
Mar 4th - Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
Mar 4th - Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
Mar 6th - Bkln's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
Mar 7th - Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
Mar 8th - Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
Mar 8th - Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
Mar 11th - Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
Mar 12th - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
Mar 12th - Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
Mar 13th - Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
Mar 15th - 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
Mar 15th - 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
Mar 16th - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
Mar 18th - Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
Mar 19th - Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
Mar 20th - Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
Mar 23rd - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
Mar 23rd - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
Mar 24th - 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
Mar 24th - Planet Pluto named
Mar 26th - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
Mar 27th - 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
Mar 28th - 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)
Mar 28th - Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara
Mar 29th - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
Mar 30th - Babberich-H soccer team forms
Mar 31st - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
Apr 1st - "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America
Apr 2nd - 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
Apr 3rd - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Apr 3rd - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
Apr 4th - Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century
Apr 4th - Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
Apr 4th - The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
Apr 5th - England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
Apr 6th - 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
Apr 6th - Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
Apr 10th - George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston
Apr 10th - Synthetic rubber 1st produced
Apr 12th - 4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days
Apr 12th - Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
Apr 14th - Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe," premieres in NYC
Apr 17th - Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
Apr 19th - 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:34:48.2
Apr 21st - Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
Apr 21st - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid," premieres in Moscow
Apr 22nd - US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
Apr 28th - 1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
Apr 29th - 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 737

Jan 1st - Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier/president (Sudan)
Jan 1st - Ty Hardin, NYC, actor (Riptide, Bronco) [or Jun 1]
Jan 1st - Werner Heiden, composer
Jan 2nd - Julius LaRosa, Bkln NY, singer (fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air)
Jan 3rd - Eddie Egan, Bronx NYC, actor (Joe Forrester)
Jan 3rd - Robert Loggia, Staten Island, actor (Officer & a Gentleman, THE Cat)
Jan 3rd - Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
Jan 4th - Don Shula, winningest NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
Jan 4th - Iain Cuthbertson, British actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB)
Jan 4th - Sorrell Booke, Buffalo NY, actor (Bye Bye Braverman, Black Like Me)
Jan 5th - Edward Galven Givens Jr, Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut
Jan 5th - Frederick Charles Tillis, composer
Jan 5th - Richard Hayes, Passaic NJ, singer/emcee (Name That Tune)
Jan 6th - Denis Pitts, journalist
Jan 6th - Vic Tayback, Bkln NY, actor (Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper)
Jan 8th - Doreen Wilber, US, archer (Olympic-gold-1972)
Jan 10th - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer
Jan 10th - Roy E Disney, CEO (Disney)
Jan 10th - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
Jan 11th - Ron Mulock, Australian politician
Jan 11th - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
Jan 12th - Glenn Yarborough, singer (Limeliters-Honey & Wine, Jubilee)
Jan 12th - Jennifer P Johnston, Irish author (Fool's sanctuary)
Jan 13th - Frances Sternhagen, Wash DC, actress (Outland, Starting Over)
Jan 13th - Liz Anderson, rocker
Jan 13th - Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer
Jan 14th - Edgar Sergeyi Hovhanesyan, composer
Jan 14th - Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as VP of American Zoologists
Jan 15th - Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler (d. 1985)
Jan 16th - Norman Podhoretz, Brooklyn NY, author/editor (NY Post)
Jan 16th - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)
Jan 17th - Bill Benyon, English large landowner/Conservative Lower house leader
Jan 17th - Robert Ceely, composer
Jan 17th - Eddie LeBaron, American football player
Jan 19th - John Waite, cricket wicket-keeper (great South African)
Jan 19th - Tippi Hedren, American actress
Jan 20th - Edwin E "Buzz" Aldrin Jr, Montclair NJ, USAF/astro (Gem 12, Ap 11)
Jan 21st - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut
Jan 23rd - Derek Walcott, St Lucia, poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992)
Jan 23rd - Ken Errair, rocker (Four Freshmen)
Jan 23rd - William Reid Pogue, Okemah Okla, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4)
Jan 24th - Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire
Jan 25th - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
Jan 26th - A N Solomons, chairman (Singer & Friedlander)
Jan 26th - Anne Macfarlane, Master (Court of Protection)
Jan 26th - Harry "Buddy" Melges Jr, Wisc, yachter (Oly-gold/bronze-1964, 72)
Jan 27th - Bobby "Blue" Bland, Rosemark TN, blues singer (Call on the Drummer)
Jan 27th - Esteban Edward Torres, (Rep-D-CA, 1983- )
Jan 27th - Roger Sims, British MP
Jan 28th - David Morris, British MEP
Jan 28th - Luis de Pablo, composer
Jan 29th - John Junkin, actor/writer (A Hard Day's Night)
Jan 29th - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
Jan 30th - Magnus Adem Malan, South African minister of Defense (1980- )
Jan 30th - Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
Jan 30th - Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
Jan 31st - Lynn Carlin, LA Calif, actress (Joan Hunter-James at 15)
Jan 31st - Joakim Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
Feb 1st - Peter Tapsell, British MP
Feb 1st - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
Feb 1st - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)
Feb 3rd - Joan Rice, actress (Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up)
Feb 3rd - Gillian Ayres, English painter
Feb 8th - Alejandro Rey, Buenos Aires, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun)
Feb 8th - Arlan Stangeland, (Rep-R-MN, 1977- )
Feb 8th - Catherine Hardy, Carollton Ga, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
Feb 8th - Manuel Castillo, composer
Feb 8th - James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
Feb 9th - Emil Petrovics, composer
Feb 9th - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
Feb 10th - Peter Phillips, composer [or Jun 18]
Feb 10th - Robert Wagner, Detroit Mich, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart)
Feb 11th - Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960)
Feb 11th - C H Dearnley, organist
Feb 11th - Earl of Rosebery
Feb 11th - Roy De Forest, American Painter (d. 2007)
Feb 12th - Arlen Specter, (Sen-R-PA, 1981- )
Feb 12th - Gerhard Rohm, writer
Feb 13th - Dotty McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
Feb 13th - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist
Feb 14th - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, principal (Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford)
Feb 15th - C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable
Feb 15th - Nico Minardos, American actor
Feb 16th - F G R Cuming, painter
Feb 16th - Peggy King, Greensburg Pa, vocalist/actress (George Gobel Show)
Feb 16th - Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor (Thunderball)
Feb 17th - Usko Merilainen, composer
Feb 17th - Ruth Rendell, English writer
Feb 18th - Theodore C Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut
Feb 18th - Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
Feb 19th - John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
Feb 20th - Bill Walker, British MP
Feb 20th - Patricia Smith, New Haven Ct, actress (Bob Newhart Show)
Feb 20th - Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer
Feb 21st - Elizabeth Adams, madame
Feb 22nd - Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
Feb 22nd - JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
Feb 22nd - James McGarrell, American painter
Feb 23rd - Gerry Davis, writer
Feb 23rd - Harry Boldt, German Fed Rep, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1976)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 93 of 93

Jan 9th - Edward W Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66
Jan 13th - C-E Auguste Rateau, French inventor (R-steam turbine), dies at 66
Jan 27th - Jean Hure, composer, dies at 52
Jan 28th - Clarence Skelton Wimble, cricket (score pair in Test for S Af), dies
Feb 6th - Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17
Feb 22nd - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66
Feb 23rd - Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22
Feb 23rd - Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35
Feb 24th - Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
Feb 26th - Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish Cardinal, dies at 64
Mar 2nd - David H Lawrence, poet/writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies at 44
Mar 6th - William Milton, cricketer (S Afr Test capt in 3 Tests 1889-92), dies
Mar 8th - William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72
Mar 8th - Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
Mar 12th - Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
Mar 12th - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
Mar 13th - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77
Mar 15th - Antonio Beltramelli, writer, dies at 51
Mar 16th - Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja, Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
Mar 19th - Arthur J Balfour, British theologist/premier (1902-05), dies at 81
Mar 29th - Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies
Apr 1st - Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92
Apr 1st - Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
Apr 2nd - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
Apr 3rd - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
Apr 4th - Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies
Apr 14th - W Majakowski, writer, dies at 36
Apr 16th - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
Apr 17th - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
Apr 19th - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
Apr 21st - Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79
Apr 21st - Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85
Apr 22nd - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866)
May 8th - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61
May 12th - Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70
May 13th - Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies
May 13th - Helena Lange, German feminist, dies
May 17th - Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61
May 18th - Joao Marcellino Arroyo, composer, dies at 68
May 25th - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
Jun 5th - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies
Jun 10th - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
Jun 11th - George Alexander, cricketer (two early Tests for Australia), dies
Jun 11th - Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72
Jun 12th - Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
Jun 13th - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
Jun 16th - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
Jun 16th - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
Jun 22nd - Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82
Jul 2nd - Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59
Jul 7th - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
Jul 14th - W H Ashley, cricketer (Test S Africa, 7 wkts), dies
Jul 15th - Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies
Jul 19th - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
Jul 23rd - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
Jul 29th - Alexander von Fielitz, composer, dies at 69
Jul 30th - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
Aug 4th - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61
Aug 10th - William H Taft, US president (1909-13), dies
Aug 20th - Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies
Aug 25th - Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61
Aug 26th - Lon Chaney, actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3), dies at 47
Aug 27th - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist/Dutch Patriarch, dies at 62
Aug 28th - Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies
Aug 29th - William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
Aug 30th - William H Taft, 27th US President (1909-13), dies
Sep 5th - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
Sep 10th - G A Faulkner, cricketer (S Afr googly all-rounder), commits suicide
Sep 15th - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
Sep 23rd - Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62
Sep 24th - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
Sep 29th - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)
Oct 1st - Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84
Oct 3rd - Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73
Oct 5th - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
Oct 10th - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
Oct 14th - Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
Oct 15th - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
Oct 24th - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
Oct 26th - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
Nov 5th - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
Nov 11th - W W Whysall, cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies
Nov 27th - J T Tyldesley, cricket (1661 runs in 31 Tests for Eng 1898-1909), dies
Dec 9th - Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
Dec 11th - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81
Dec 13th - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
Dec 17th - Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36
Dec 19th - Johnny Douglas, cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns
Dec 23rd - Johannes H Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
Dec 24th - Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
Dec 24th - Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56
Dec 25th - Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65
Dec 27th - William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63