Today in History for July 1930
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Months in 1930: January February March April May June August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 24 of 24
1st - Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
3rd - Veterans Administration created
4th - 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
5th - 50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
7th - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
11th - Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
12th - 34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
12th - Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 mins, 46 fours
13th - 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
13th - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
18th - SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
20th - 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record)
21st - 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
21st - US Veterans Administration forms
23rd - Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
23rd - Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
25th - Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
27th - Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
28th - 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
29th - 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
29th - Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
30th - 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
30th - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
31st - Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 56 of 56
1st - Andreas JAI Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Schipluiden/Leiderdorp)
1st - Imelda Marcos, former 1st lady (Philipines)/shoe collector
1st - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
2nd - Carlos Saul Menem, president of Argentina (1989- )
3rd - Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor (Bavarian State Orch 1968)
3rd - Pete Fountain, New Orleans, jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
4th - George Steinbrenner, owner (NY Yankees)/ship builder/horse owner
4th - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor
4th - Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower
5th - Tommy Cook, Duluth MN, actor (Missile to the Moon)
5th - Yutaka Makino, composer
6th - Francoise Mallet-Joris, [F Lilar], Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders)
6th - H J Heise, writer
7th - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist
8th - Valeri Aleksandrovich Yazdovsky, Russian cosmonaut
9th - Buddy Bregman, Chicago, orch leader (Eddie Fisher Show)
9th - Roy McLean, cricketer (prolific S African batsman played 40 Tests)
10th - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist
11th - Gregory C Bell, Terre Haute Ind, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
11th - John Alabaster, cricketer (NZ most prolific leg-spinner with 49 wkts)
11th - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
12th - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
14th - Eric Norman Stokes, composer
14th - Polly Bergen, Knoxville Tn, actress (Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk)
15th - Charles Kelly, chief constable (Staffordshire England)
15th - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
15th - Stephen Smale, American mathematician
16th - Anne Francis, Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Forbidden Planet)
16th - John Everett Watts, composer
16th - Michael Bilirakis, (Rep-R-Florida, 1983- )
17th - Ryohei Hirose, composer
18th - Siegfried Kurz, composer
18th - Burt Kwouk, English actor
20th - Arthur U Spronken, sculptor
20th - Sally Ann Howes, London England, actress (Dead of Night)
20th - Yuri Petrovich Artyukin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 14)
21st - Gene Alec Littler, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1961 US Open)
21st - Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (d. 2002)
22nd - Leoncjusz Ciuciura, composer
22nd - Marcia Henderson, Andover Mass, actress (Kathleen-Aldrich Family)
24th - Boris Nikolayevich Belousov, cosmonaut
24th - Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)
24th - Jacqueline Brookes, Montclair NJ, actress (Jack & Mike, Another World)
25th - Maureen Forrester, Montreal Canada, contralto (Ressurection Symphony)
25th - Murray Chapple, cricketer (NZ Test batsman through the 1950's)
25th - Alice Parizeau, Polish-born Quebec writer and essayist (d. 1990)
25th - Annie Ross, British jazz singer
26th - Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes
27th - Ronald Dearing, chairman (British Post Office)
27th - Shirley Williams, co-founder (Social Democratic Party)/labour minister
28th - Darryl Hickman, Hollywood Cal, actor (Human Comedy, Tea & Sympathy)
28th - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
28th - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
29th - Paul Taylor, dancer/choreographer (Paul Taylor Dance Company) [or 6/5]
30th - Thomas Sowell, author/activist
31st - Oleg Popov, Russian clown
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59
7th - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
14th - W H Ashley, cricketer (Test S Africa, 7 wkts), dies
15th - Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies
19th - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
23rd - Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
29th - Alexander von Fielitz, composer, dies at 69
30th - Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
