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

Historical Events

Results 1 - 36 of 36

1st - NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
1st - Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
3rd - Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
3rd - Otto Ender forms Austrian govt
3rd - Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen," premieres in London
4th - French govt of Tardieu falls
4th - Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
6th - 18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
6th - Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
7th - 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
8th - Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
8th - Cole Porter's musical "NYCers," premieres in NYC
11th - Bank of the United States opens in NYC
12th - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
12th - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
12th - Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
13th - George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
13th - Theodore Steeg forms French govt
14th - NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
15th - Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)
16th - Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award
18th - Bradman scores 258 NSW v South Aust, 289 mins, 37 fours
19th - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
20th - Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
22nd - 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
23rd - Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
23rd - Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
24th - Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
24th - F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid
25th - 1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
25th - Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens
25th - Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
25th - Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
29th - Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
31st - Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
31st - US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 48 of 48

1st - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
2nd - Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize
3rd - Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)
3rd - Jean-Luc Godard, French director (Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless)
3rd - Phyllis Curtin, Clarksburg WV, soprano (NYC Opera)
4th - Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year-1953)
4th - Paul-Heinz Dittrich, composer
4th - Roman Semyonovich Ledenyou, composer
4th - Ronnie Corbett, England, comedian (2 Ronnies)
4th - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist
6th - Bobby Van, [Robert King], NYC, singer (Hollywood Palace)
7th - Richard Felciano, composer
7th - Hal Smith, American baseball player
8th - Alain Weber, composer
8th - John Morressy, US, sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane)
8th - Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia)
8th - Julian Critchley, British politician (d. 2000)
9th - Buck Henry, NYC, screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart)
10th - Clayton K Yeutter, Nebraska, US trade rep/Republican Natl chairman
11th - Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor/director (Man & a Woman, Z)
11th - Leonard Friedman, violinist
11th - Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress
12th - Friedrich Voss, composer
12th - Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006)
13th - Genevieve Page, actress (Day & the Hour)
13th - Robert Prosky, Phila, actor (Christine, Sgt Jablonski-Hill St Blues)
15th - Alim-ud-Din, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 25 Tests 1954-62)
15th - Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer
17th - Bob Guccione, [Robert C J Edwa], US publisher (Penthouse, Omni)
17th - Julia Meade, actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)
17th - Makoto Moroi, composer
17th - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
17th - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
18th - Moose Skowron, American baseball player
21st - Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches
22nd - Peter Hall, Suffolk England, director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
24th - Robert Joffrey, [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan], US, dancer
25th - Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and father of Andre Agassi
25th - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d.1986)
26th - Donald Moffat, Plymouth England, actor (Kent-Logan's Run)
26th - Sayed Mutawli imam ad-Darsh, scholar/broadcaster
27th - Jacqueline Fontijn, Flemish composer
27th - Meg Greenfield, US politician(?)
27th - Wilfrid Sheed, England, writer (Boys of Winter, Hack)
29th - Willy Giefer, composer
30th - Jerome Theisen, benedictine
31st - Ala Odetta, [Odetta Holmes], Birmingham, folk singer/actress
31st - Odetta, [Holmes], Birmingham Ala, folk singer (Sanctuary)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 10 of 10

9th - Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
11th - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81
13th - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
17th - Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36
19th - Johnny Douglas, cricketer (soccer int, boxing gold medal), drowns
23rd - Johannes H Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
24th - Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
24th - Oskar Nedbal, composer, dies at 56
25th - Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65
27th - William Courtleigh, actor (Madame X, Eyes of Youth), dies at 63