Today in History for February 1930
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Months in 1930: January March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 22 of 22
1st - Arnold Schoenbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
3rd - Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
3rd - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
3rd - The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
4th - 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
5th - 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
8th - "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
10th - Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
15th - Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
17th - French govt of Tardieu, falls
18th - Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
18th - Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan
18th - Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in NYC
18th - US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
20th - Capelle soccer team forms
21st - Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC
25th - Check photographing device patented
25th - George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v Engld (114 & 112)
26th - "Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
26th - 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
26th - West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
27th - Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 55 of 55
1st - Peter Tapsell, British MP
1st - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1st - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)
3rd - Joan Rice, actress (Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up)
3rd - Gillian Ayres, English painter
8th - Alejandro Rey, Buenos Aires, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun)
8th - Arlan Stangeland, (Rep-R-MN, 1977- )
8th - Catherine Hardy, Carollton Ga, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
8th - Manuel Castillo, composer
8th - James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
9th - Emil Petrovics, composer
9th - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
10th - Peter Phillips, composer [or Jun 18]
10th - Robert Wagner, Detroit Mich, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart)
11th - Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960)
11th - C H Dearnley, organist
11th - Earl of Rosebery
11th - Roy De Forest, American Painter (d. 2007)
12th - Arlen Specter, (Sen-R-PA, 1981- )
12th - Gerhard Rohm, writer
13th - Dotty McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
13th - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist
14th - Duncan Montgomery Stewart, principal (Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford)
15th - C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable
15th - Nico Minardos, American actor
16th - F G R Cuming, painter
16th - Peggy King, Greensburg Pa, vocalist/actress (George Gobel Show)
16th - Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor (Thunderball)
17th - Usko Merilainen, composer
17th - Ruth Rendell, English writer
18th - Theodore C Freeman, Haverford Penn, capt USAF/astronaut
18th - Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
19th - John Frankenheimer, NYC, director (Birdman of Alcatraz)
20th - Bill Walker, British MP
20th - Patricia Smith, New Haven Ct, actress (Bob Newhart Show)
20th - Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer
21st - Elizabeth Adams, madame
22nd - Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
22nd - JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
22nd - James McGarrell, American painter
23rd - Gerry Davis, writer
23rd - Harry Boldt, German Fed Rep, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1976)
23rd - Imre Gyongyossy, film Maker
23rd - Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus)
23rd - Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
24th - Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
25th - Erica Pedretti, writer
26th - Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
27th - Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
27th - Lieux Dressler, actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital)
27th - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
27th - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
28th - Frank Malzone, baseball player
28th - Leon Cooper, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
28th - Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 6 of 6
6th - Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17
22nd - Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, dies at 66
23rd - Horst Wessel, German nazi lyricist (Fahne Hoch), dies at 22
23rd - Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35
24th - Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
26th - Raffaele Merry del Val, Spanish Cardinal, dies at 64
