Today in History for October 1930
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 25 of 25
1st - Soccer team WHC forms
1st - World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Phila A's beat St Louis 5-2
4th - A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series
5th - British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
8th - Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
9th - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
10th - AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
10th - Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
11th - Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
13th - New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform
14th - Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy"
14th - George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC
18th - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
19th - Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
20th - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
20th - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
22nd - 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
22nd - Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in NYC
22nd - SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
24th - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
25th - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
25th - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
26th - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad
29th - 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
30th - Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 58 of 58
1st - Philippe Noiret, Lille France, actor (Soleil, Les Milles, Il Postino)
1st - Richard Harris, Ire, actor (Man Called Horse)/singer (MacArthur Park)
1st - Frank Gardner, Australian racing driver
1st - Naimatullah Khan, Pakistani politician
2nd - Gunter Kochan, composer
2nd - J M Ghorpade, cricketer (8 Tests for India 1952-59 with little impact)
2nd - Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia
3rd - David Mayer Epstein, composer
4th - Jozsef Soproni, composer
5th - Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Ukraine, cosmonaut (Vostok IV, Soyuz 14)
5th - Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate
6th - Hafez al Assad, president (Syria)
6th - Richie Benaud, cricket capt (great Aussie leg-spinner, commentator)
8th - James Olsen, Evanston IL, actor (Andromeda Strain, Spell)
8th - Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack)
8th - Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
9th - David Rounds, Bronxville NY, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill)
9th - Fjolnir Stefansson, composer
10th - Adlai Stevenson III, (D-Sen-Ill)
10th - Harold Pinter, London England, playwright (Homecoming, Servant)
10th - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
11th - Bill Fischer, baseball player
11th - Harry Glass, German DR, 1st E German Olympic medalist (bronze-1956)
11th - Sam Johnson, (Rep-R-Texas)
11th - Sam Johnson, American politician
12th - Jack S Gottlieb, composer
13th - Peter J Clase, S African minister of Education/Culture (1985- )
14th - Joseph-Desire Kuku NWZA Mobutu Sese Seko, president Zaire (1965- )
14th - Robert Parker, US saxophonist/soul singer (Barefootin')
15th - Fela Ransome/Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian singer/saxophonist
15th - Phillipe Leroy, Paris France, actor (Night Porter, Leonardo da Vinci)
15th - Fereydun M. Esfandiary, Iranian philosopher (d. 2000)
16th - Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
17th - Angelo Paccignini, composer
17th - Jimmy Breslin, Queens NYC, columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday)
17th - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
18th - Frank Carlucci, National Security Adviser/Sec of Defense (1987-89)
19th - Tom ap Rees, botanist
21st - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London)
23rd - Gerard Blain, Paris France, actor (Hatari)
24th - Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace)
24th - Johan Galtung, Norway, polemologist (Meaning of Nonviolence)
24th - Raj Bagri, Indies/British merchant in metal
24th - Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
26th - John Arden, England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty)
27th - Bill George, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, LA Rams)
28th - Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer
28th - John Henry Mayer, composer
28th - Bernie Ecclestone, English motorsports impresario (F1)
29th - Peter Stampfel, rocker
29th - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
29th - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
29th - Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer
30th - Clifford Brown, [Brownie], US jazz trumpeter/composer
30th - Marilyn Alex, Hollywood Calif, actress (Molly-Young & Restless)
30th - Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (d. 1992)
31st - Michael Collins, Rome, Mjr Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11)
31st - Ray Crane, trumpeter
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
1st - Ricardo Drigo, composer, dies at 84
3rd - Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73
5th - Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, British military officer (b. 1875)
10th - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
14th - Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
15th - Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist (b. 1866)
24th - Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor/director (Dr Faustus), dies at 26
26th - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1872)
