Today in History for November 1930
| ◄ Oct November Dec ► | ||||||
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | ||||||
◄ 1929 1930 1931► | ||||||
Months in 1930: January February March April May June July August September October December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 21 of 21
2nd - Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
3rd - 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
3rd - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
3rd - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
5th - Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
8th - Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin
9th - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
11th - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
13th - WA Drake's "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
17th - Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
18th - Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope/Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
18th - Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad
18th - Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
22nd - 1st Irish Sweepstake run
22nd - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
22nd - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
23rd - NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
24th - 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
25th - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
25th - Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP
28th - Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic," premieres
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 63 of 63
1st - A. R. Gurney, American playwright
2nd - Denis Gerald Barrington, artist
3rd - Ken Berry, Moline Ill, actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family)
3rd - Lois Smith, Topeka Ks, actress (Reckless, Reuben Reuben)
3rd - Philip M Crane, (Rep-R-IL, 1969- )
3rd - William H Dana, pilot (X-15)
3rd - D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
3rd - Brian Robinson, British cyclist
4th - Dick Groat, shortstop (NL MVP 1960)
4th - Doris Roberts, St Louis Mo, actress (Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983)
4th - Kate Reid, London England, actress (Heaven Help US)
5th - Herb Edelman, Bkln NY, actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5)
6th - Raymond Baervoets, Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
7th - Peter Woods, newsreader
7th - Rudy Boschwitz, (Sen-R-Mn, 1978- )
8th - Bob Harris, Long Beach Calif, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters)
8th - Edmund Happold, engineer
9th - Charlie Jones, Ft Smith Ark, sportscaster (Almost Anything Goes)
10th - Clarence M Pendleton Jr, chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
10th - Gene Conley, MLB player/NBA player
10th - Toma Prosev, composer
11th - Kenneth Fleetwood, fashion designer
11th - Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)
11th - Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
11th - Vernon Handley, English conductor
12th - Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author (Towers of February)
12th - Ann Flood, American actress
13th - Fred Harris, (Sen-D-Okla)
13th - Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet
14th - Alan Moss, cricket pace bowler (England during 50's)
14th - Edward H White II, San Antonio Texas, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4)
14th - Ornelio Martina, Antillian author/governor of Curacao
14th - Shirley Crabtree, professional wrestler (d. 1997)
14th - Charles De Sorgher, Belgian bobsledder
14th - Monique Mercure, French Canadian actress
14th - Michael Robbins, British actor (d. 1992)
15th - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author (Drowned World)
15th - Whitman Mayo, NYC, actor (Grady-Sanford & Son)
16th - Alice Adams, sculptor
16th - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author (Christmas in Biafra)
16th - Salvatore Riina, Sicilian mafioso
17th - Bob Mathias, Tulare Calif, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
17th - Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician
17th - David Werner Amram, Philadelphia Pa, composer (Splendor in the Grass)
17th - Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
19th - Bob Mathias, Tulare Calif, decathelete (Olympics-gold-48)
22nd - John Paul Schiffer
22nd - Owen Kay Garriott, Enid Oklahoma, astronaut (Skylab 3, STS 9)
22nd - Peter Hall, British stage/film/opera director (Pedestrian)
23rd - Jack McKeon, baseball player
23rd - Robert Easton, Milwaukee, actor (Someone Up There Likes Me)
23rd - William E Brock, (Sen-D)/US Secretary of Labor (1985-87)
24th - C T Patankar, cricketer (kept wicket in one Test India v NZ 1955-56)
24th - Ken Barrington, cricketer (tough England batsman)
24th - Bob Friend, baseball player
26th - Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
27th - James M Taylor, Stamps ARK, USAF/astronaut
27th - Vladimir Emel Yanovich Lev Alekseevich Samsonov Maksimov, educator
27th - Joe DeNardo, Pittsburgh Meteorologist
29th - Shirley Porter, English politician
30th - G[eorge] Gordon Liddy, head CIA/ate a rat/Watergate felon/radio host
30th - James Felton Boyd, Rocky Mount NC, light HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1956)
30th - William H Dana, Pasadena Calif, test pilot (X-15)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 3 of 3
5th - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
11th - W W Whysall, cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies
27th - J T Tyldesley, cricket (1661 runs in 31 Tests for Eng 1898-1909), dies
