Today in History for June 1930
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 30 of 30
1st - 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
1st - 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
1st - Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
1st - Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours
2nd - Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
3rd - Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies
7th - 62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
7th - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
9th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)
9th - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
10th - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
12th - 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn
12th - Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in NYC
12th - Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title
13th - 1st Nudist Colony opens
13th - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
14th - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
16th - Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
17th - Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge
17th - Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
18th - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
20th - 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
21st - Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
22nd - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
23rd - Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
24th - 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
24th - Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
28th - 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs
30th - 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
30th - Bradman scores 254 at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 73 of 73
1st - Edward Woodward, Croydon England, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman)
1st - Matt Poore, cricketer (NZ batsman in 14 tests 1953-56 average 15.43)
1st - Ty Hardin, Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109) [or Jan 1]
1st - John Lemmon, English logician (d. 1966)
2nd - Charles Pete Conrad Jr, Phila, USN/astro (Gem 5 11, Ap 12, Skylab 2)
2nd - Bob Lillis, baseball player
3rd - Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author (Storm Queen)
3rd - Michael Melle, cricketer (South African pace bowler of early 1950's)
3rd - Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)
3rd - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
4th - Morgana King, jazz singer/actress (Godfather)
4th - Pentti Raitio, composer
5th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Sidel'nikov, composer
5th - Robert Buchanan, founder (Center for History of Tech Bath University)
5th - Roger W Suddards, solicitor
5th - Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
6th - Frank Tyson, cricketer ("Typhoon" England pace destroyer mid-50's)
7th - Ian Leggat, cricketer (1 Test v S Africa 1953-54 without distinction)
8th - Bo Gunnar Widerberg, Malmö Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan)
8th - Dana Wynter, London, actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
8th - Michael Codron, theatrical producer
8th - Yannis Ioannidis, composer
8th - Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate
8th - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
9th - Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, US, sci-fi author (Thongor of Lemuria)
9th - Marvin Kalb, NYC, educator/newscaster (CBS/NBC, Meet the Press)
9th - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
11th - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup)
11th - Charles B Rangel, (Rep-D-NY, 1971- )
12th - Barbara Harris, 1st US Episcopal female bishop
12th - Hans Koetsier, Dutch sculptor (KLM-Schiphol)
12th - Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener of 50s)
12th - Donald Byrne, American chess player (d. 1976)
12th - Jim Nabors, American actor
12th - Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (d. 1993)
13th - Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel (d. 2004)
15th - Marcel Pronovost, professional ice hockey player
16th - Brian Statham, cricketer (masterful England quick for two decades)
16th - David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
16th - Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian/American cinematographer
17th - Brian Statham, cricketer
17th - James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
17th - Romuald Twardowski, composer
18th - Peter Phillips, CEO (AB Electronics) [or Feb 10]
19th - Bryan Kneale, British sculptor
19th - Jul Levi, composer
19th - Gena Rowlands, American actress
20th - Ellie Rabb, US, actor (Fabulous Baker Boys, Extreme Close-up)
20th - John Waine, bishop (Chelmsford)
20th - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet
20th - Paul Pender, American boxer
20th - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist
21st - Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary)
21st - Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila)
21st - Patricia Lindop, radio biologist
21st - Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London)
23rd - Donn Fulton Eisele, Columbus Ohio, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 7)
24th - Herbert C Klien, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
24th - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
25th - Hugo Gabriel Gryn, rabbi
25th - George Murdock, American actor
25th - Mary Beth Peil, American singer
26th - Willem G Statius Muller, Neth Antilles, conductor/pianist/composer
27th - H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)
27th - Tamio Kono, Sacramento CA, weightlifting (Oly-gold-52, 56, 60)
28th - Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer
28th - Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
29th - Robert Evans, NYC, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
29th - Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress
30th - Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer (Buckaroos)
30th - June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
30th - Mac Benson, horse trainer
30th - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 9 of 9
5th - Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies
10th - Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
11th - George Alexander, cricketer (two early Tests for Australia), dies
11th - Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72
12th - Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
13th - Henry Segrave, British racing driver who held land speed records and the water speed record (b. 1896)
16th - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
16th - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
22nd - Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82
