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Months in Year 1930: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 201 - 300 of 331

Aug 16th - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
Aug 18th - Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
Aug 20th - Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
Aug 20th - Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
Aug 21st - Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
Aug 22nd - Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test
Aug 23rd - 44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
Aug 26th - Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
Aug 29th - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
Sep 1st - NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
Sep 2nd - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
Sep 3rd - Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
Sep 4th - Cambridge Theater opens in London
Sep 6th - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
Sep 6th - Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
Sep 8th - 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
Sep 8th - NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
Sep 8th - Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
Sep 10th - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
Sep 11th - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
Sep 12th - Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
Sep 13th - 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
Sep 13th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
Sep 13th - Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
Sep 13th - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
Sep 14th - Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
Sep 14th - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
Sep 15th - 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
Sep 16th - Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in bottom of 10th to win 15-14
Sep 18th - Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
Sep 18th - NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
Sep 18th - Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
Sep 20th - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
Sep 21st - Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb
Sep 24th - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY
Sep 24th - Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London
Sep 24th - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
Sep 25th - Austrian govt of Vaugoin forms
Sep 25th - Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
Sep 25th - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in NYC
Sep 27th - 34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
Sep 27th - Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
Sep 27th - White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
Sep 28th - Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
Sep 29th - 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
Sep 29th - Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
Sep 29th - Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
Sep 29th - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
Sep 29th - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
Oct 1st - Soccer team WHC forms
Oct 1st - World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Phila A's beat St Louis 5-2
Oct 4th - A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series
Oct 5th - British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
Oct 8th - Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
Oct 9th - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
Oct 10th - AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
Oct 10th - Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
Oct 11th - Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
Oct 13th - New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform
Oct 14th - Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy"
Oct 14th - George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC
Oct 18th - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
Oct 19th - Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
Oct 20th - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
Oct 20th - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
Oct 22nd - 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
Oct 22nd - Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in NYC
Oct 22nd - SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
Oct 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."
Oct 25th - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
Oct 25th - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
Oct 26th - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad
Oct 29th - 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
Oct 30th - Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
Nov 2nd - Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
Nov 3rd - 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
Nov 3rd - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
Nov 3rd - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
Nov 5th - Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
Nov 8th - Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin
Nov 9th - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
Nov 11th - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
Nov 13th - WA Drake's "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
Nov 17th - Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
Nov 18th - Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope/Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
Nov 18th - Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad
Nov 18th - Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
Nov 22nd - 1st Irish Sweepstake run
Nov 22nd - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
Nov 22nd - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
Nov 23rd - NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
Nov 24th - 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
Nov 25th - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
Nov 25th - Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP
Nov 28th - Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic," premieres
Dec 1st - NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
Dec 1st - Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
Dec 3rd - Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
Dec 3rd - Otto Ender forms Austrian govt
Dec 3rd - Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen," premieres in London

Famous Birthdays

Results 201 - 300 of 737

Apr 11th - Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO (Robert Fleming Holdings)
Apr 11th - Kazuo Fukushima, composer
Apr 11th - Nicholas F Brady, US Secretary of Treasury (1988-93)
Apr 11th - W G [Bill] Hefner, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
Apr 11th - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (d. 1997)
Apr 12th - Betty Clooney, Maysville Ky, singer (Jack Paar Show)
Apr 12th - Bryan Magee, writer
Apr 12th - Earl of Limerick
Apr 12th - Lou A de Graaf, Dutch asst secretary of Social Affairs (VDA)
Apr 12th - Uwe Kitzinger, Pres (Templeton College, Oxford)
Apr 12th - Manuel Neri, American artist
Apr 13th - Justice Harman
Apr 14th - Bradford Dillman, SF Calif, actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer)
Apr 14th - George W Gekas, (Rep-R-PA, 1983- )
Apr 14th - Jay Robinson, NYC, actor (Born Again, Malibu Bikini Shop)
Apr 15th - Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU)
Apr 15th - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
Apr 16th - Frank Page, British broadcaster/actor (Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer)
Apr 16th - Herbie Mann, Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin')
Apr 16th - John Robson, British ambassador (Norway)
Apr 17th - Chris Barber, jazz trombonist
Apr 17th - Genevieve, Paris France, singer (Jack Paar Show, Scruples)
Apr 18th - Clive Revill, Wellington NZ, actor (Legend of Hell House)
Apr 19th - Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
Apr 20th - Alan Oakman, cricketer (England batsman against Australia 1956)
Apr 21st - Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods)
Apr 21st - Margaret Rose, London England, Princess of York [or Aug 21]
Apr 21st - Silvana Mangano, Rome Italy, actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas)
Apr 23rd - Alan Oppenheimer, NYC, actor (6 Million Dollar Man, Eischied)
Apr 23rd - Michael Bowen, RC Archbishop (Southwark)
Apr 24th - Conn Findlay, Stockton Calif, coxswain (Oly-2 gold/bronze-56, 64, 76)
Apr 24th - Jerome Callet, American musician
Apr 25th - Dotty Mack, Cincinnati Ohio, actress (Paul Dixon Show)
Apr 25th - Paul Mazursky, Brooklyn, writer/director (Moscow on the Hudson)
Apr 25th - Roy Marshall, cricket opener (prolific Hampshire only 4 Tests for WI)
Apr 26th - Derek Waring, actor (Barnacle Bill, Arthur-Heart of the Country)
Apr 26th - Justin Gosling, principal (St Edmund Hall Oxford)
Apr 26th - Roger Moens, Belgium, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
Apr 27th - Roelof F "Pik" Botha, South African minister of Foreign affairs
Apr 28th - Christopher John Magenis Headington, composer
Apr 28th - James Baker 3, Houston, Sec of Treasury (1985-88), Sec State (1989-92)
Apr 29th - Alf Valentine, cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner)
Apr 29th - Alfred Lewis Valentine, Jamaican cricket player
Apr 29th - Jean Rochefort, French actor
Apr 30th - Raoul de Keyser, [Dekeyser], Flemish painter
May 1st - Little Walter, [Marion Walter Jacobs], rocker
May 1st - Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles)
May 1st - Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los Angeles
May 2nd - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist
May 3rd - David Evatt Tunley, composer
May 4th - Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
May 5th - Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15)
May 7th - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets, Russia, cosmonaut
May 7th - Horst Bienek, German poet
May 7th - Totie Fields, American comedienne (d. 1978)
May 8th - Doug Atkins, Humbolt Tn, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints)
May 8th - Gary Snyder, [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
May 8th - Heather Harper, soprano
May 9th - Joan Sims, actress (Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo)
May 10th - June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist (World of Islands)
May 10th - Pat Summerall, NFLer (NY Giants)/sportscaster (CBS)/alchoholic
May 10th - Scott Muni, American radio DJ (d. 2004)
May 11th - M J Hamlin, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Dundee University)
May 11th - Stanley L Elkin, Bkln NY, writer/professor (Living End)
May 11th - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
May 11th - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
May 12th - Pat McCormick-Keller, Lakewood Calif, diver (Oly-4 gold-1952, 56)
May 13th - Mike Gravel, (Sen-R-Alaska)
May 13th - Vernon Shaw, former president of Dominica
May 14th - Edward V "Ned" Regan, Planfield NJ, (Controller-R-NY, 1978- )
May 14th - Phillipo Seed, social work academic
May 15th - Jasper Johns, Augusta, Ga, painter/sculptor (Green Target)
May 16th - Desmond Langley, gov (Bermuda)
May 16th - Don Conicannon, govt minister
May 16th - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman's Songs)
May 18th - Barbara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last)
May 18th - Don Leslie Lind, Midvale Utah, astronaut (STS 51-B)
May 18th - Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen, US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords)
May 18th - Geoffrey Littler, CEO (County NatWest Group)
May 18th - Warren B Rudman, (Sen-R-NH, 1980- )
May 19th - Hans Kox, composer
May 19th - Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (Raisin in the Sun)
May 20th - James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
May 20th - Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
May 21st - David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
May 21st - Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia (Liberal, 1975-83)
May 21st - Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
May 22nd - Dieuwke Y W de Graaff-Nauta, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior
May 23rd - Richard Anuszkiewicz, Erie, Pa, painter
May 23rd - Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
May 24th - Hans-Martin Linde, composer
May 24th - Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals)
May 27th - Eino Tamberg, composer
May 27th - John Barth, novelist (Sot-Weed Factor)
May 27th - Simon Barrington-Ward
May 27th - William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI
May 28th - Edward Seaga, PM (Jamaica)
May 28th - Julian Penkivil Slade, composer
May 29th - Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer (Lassiter, Ruling Class)
May 30th - Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)

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