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Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 331

Apr 29th - North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
Apr 29th - Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
May 1st - Bradman scores 236 Aust v Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
May 2nd - Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights
May 5th - 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
May 5th - Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours
May 7th - Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
May 9th - 56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6
May 10th - 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
May 10th - Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 v Yorkshire at Sheffield
May 12th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
May 13th - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
May 13th - Only known fatality due to hail
May 15th - Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
May 16th - 6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
May 17th - 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
May 19th - White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
May 20th - 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
May 20th - University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention & cure of athlete's foot
May 21st - Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
May 21st - NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
May 22nd - Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
May 22nd - Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
May 24th - 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
May 24th - Bradman scores 252* Australia v Surrey, 290 mins, 29 fours
May 24th - Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
May 26th - Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway
May 26th - Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
May 27th - Richard Drew invents masking tape
May 27th - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
May 28th - Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of NZ
May 28th - The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
May 30th - Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
May 31st - Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
May 31st - Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
May 31st - Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
Jun 1st - 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
Jun 1st - 6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
Jun 1st - Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
Jun 1st - Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours
Jun 2nd - Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
Jun 3rd - Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies
Jun 7th - 62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
Jun 7th - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
Jun 9th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)
Jun 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.
Jun 10th - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
Jun 12th - 34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn
Jun 12th - Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in NYC
Jun 12th - Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title
Jun 13th - 1st Nudist Colony opens
Jun 13th - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
Jun 14th - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
Jun 16th - Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
Jun 17th - Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge
Jun 17th - Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
Jun 18th - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
Jun 20th - 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
Jun 21st - Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
Jun 22nd - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
Jun 23rd - Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
Jun 24th - 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
Jun 24th - Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
Jun 28th - 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs
Jun 30th - 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
Jun 30th - Bradman scores 254 at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours
Jul 1st - Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
Jul 3rd - Veterans Administration created
Jul 4th - 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
Jul 5th - 50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
Jul 7th - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
Jul 11th - Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
Jul 12th - 34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
Jul 12th - Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 mins, 46 fours
Jul 13th - 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
Jul 13th - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
Jul 18th - SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
Jul 20th - 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record)
Jul 21st - 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
Jul 21st - US Veterans Administration forms
Jul 23rd - Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
Jul 23rd - Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
Jul 25th - Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
Jul 27th - Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
Jul 28th - 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
Jul 29th - 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
Jul 29th - Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
Jul 30th - 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
Jul 30th - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
Jul 31st - Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
Aug 3rd - 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
Aug 4th - Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
Aug 6th - Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
Aug 6th - Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen
Aug 7th - 2 black guys lynched in Marion Indiana
Aug 7th - Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
Aug 8th - St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
Aug 9th - 113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
Aug 9th - Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
Aug 9th - Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 737

Feb 23rd - Imre Gyongyossy, film Maker
Feb 23rd - Jef Geeraerts, Flemish writer (Black Venus)
Feb 23rd - Johnny Seven, NYC, actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss)
Feb 24th - Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
Feb 25th - Erica Pedretti, writer
Feb 26th - Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
Feb 27th - Joanne Woodward, Thomasville Ga, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel)
Feb 27th - Lieux Dressler, actress (Alice Grant-General Hospital)
Feb 27th - Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
Feb 27th - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
Feb 28th - Frank Malzone, baseball player
Feb 28th - Leon Cooper, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
Feb 28th - Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
Mar 1st - C D Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's)
Mar 1st - Pierre Max Dubois, composer
Mar 1st - Raymond St Jacques, actor/director (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr Moses)
Mar 1st - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
Mar 2nd - Jan van Noor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
Mar 2nd - John Cullum, Knoxville, actor (Hamlet, Hawaii, Northern Exposure)
Mar 2nd - Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007)
Mar 3rd - Heiner Geißler, German politician
Mar 3rd - Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
Mar 5th - Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
Mar 5th - Del Crandall, American baseball player
Mar 7th - James Broderick, Charleston NH, actor (Brenner-Brenner, Doug-Family)
Mar 7th - Lord Snowdon, [Anthony Armstrong-Jones], London, photographer
Mar 8th - Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
Mar 9th - Harrie J B Aarts, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
Mar 9th - Thomas Schippers, Kalamazoo Mich, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
Mar 10th - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
Mar 10th - Sandor Iharos, athlete
Mar 11th - David Gentleman, designer/painter
Mar 12th - Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador (to US)
Mar 12th - Robin Cavendish, disabled campaigner
Mar 12th - Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
Mar 12th - Stanko Horvat, composer
Mar 13th - Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
Mar 13th - Liz Anderson, C & W singer
Mar 13th - Jan Howard, American singer
Mar 14th - Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
Mar 14th - Ray Flockton, cricketer (prolific NSW batsman of 50's)
Mar 15th - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Mar 16th - Minoru Miky, composer
Mar 17th - James Benson Irwin, Pittsburgh Penn, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
Mar 18th - Maurice Peress, NYC, conductor (KC Philharmonic 1974-80)
Mar 18th - Pat Halcox, British musician
Mar 19th - Bill Henderson, Chic Ill, jazz singer (Torpedo-Dreams)
Mar 19th - Ornette Coleman, jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
Mar 20th - Michel Magne, composer
Mar 22nd - Derek Bok, college president (Harvard)
Mar 22nd - Lynden O Pindling, PM of Bahamas (1967-92)
Mar 22nd - Pat Robertson, televangelist (700 club, Pres candidate-R-1989)
Mar 22nd - Stephen Sondheim, NYC, lyricist (West Side Story, Company)
Mar 22nd - Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator
Mar 24th - Kenneth Nelson, Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
Mar 24th - Steve McQueen, Slater Mo, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt)
Mar 25th - David Russell Burge, composer
Mar 26th - Cristobal Halffter, composer
Mar 26th - Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
Mar 26th - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
Mar 27th - Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
Mar 27th - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
Mar 27th - Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
Mar 28th - Amelia Rosselli, poet
Mar 28th - George Bruce, painter
Mar 28th - Robert Ashley, composer
Mar 28th - Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer
Mar 29th - Donny Conn, rocker (Playmates)
Mar 29th - G R Sunderam, cricket pace bowler (2 Tests India v NZ 1955-56)
Mar 29th - Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford
Mar 29th - Marquess of Hertford
Mar 30th - Browne-Wilkinson, lord
Mar 30th - David Staple, joint pres (Council of Churches for Brit & Ireland)
Mar 30th - John Astin, Balt Md, actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Addams Family)
Mar 30th - Rolf Harris, Australian/British cartoonist
Apr 1st - Grace Lee Whitney, Ann Arbor Mich, actress (Yeoman Rand-Star Trek)
Apr 1st - Joan Franks-Williams, composer
Apr 2nd - Girolamo Arriego, composer
Apr 2nd - W Hambleden Smith, English newspaper magnate
Apr 3rd - Helmut Kohl, chancellor (Germany, 1982- )
Apr 3rd - Lawton Chiles, (sen/gov-D-Florida, 1971-89/91- )
Apr 3rd - Max Frankel, journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds)
Apr 3rd - Wally Moon, American baseball player
Apr 4th - David Sexton, soccer manager
Apr 7th - Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
Apr 8th - Dorothy Tutin, London, actress (Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell)
Apr 8th - John Bartholomew Tucker, Pa, TV host (Candid Camera, Treasure Island)
Apr 8th - John Reardon, NYC, baritone (Falke-Die Fledermaus)
Apr 8th - Julien Van Remoortere, [Piet Mortelman], Flemish writer (Fist)
Apr 8th - Mary Moore, principal (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
Apr 8th - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
Apr 9th - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
Apr 9th - Nathaniel Branden, Canadian psychotherapist
Apr 10th - Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
Apr 10th - Shuja-ud-Din, cricketer (batted in 19 Tests for Pakistan 1954-62)
Apr 10th - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actor/comedian (d. 2006)
Apr 10th - Spede Pasanen, Finnish comedian (d. 2001)
Apr 11th - Carl Franklin, Richmond Calif, actor (Fantastic Journey)
Apr 11th - Clive Exton, scriptwriter & playwright
Apr 11th - James Alan Ferman, secretary (British Board of Film Classification)

Famous Deaths

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