Historical Events in December 1930

  • Dec 1 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
  • Dec 3 Airborn chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley, Belgium)
  • Dec 3 Otto Ender forms Austrian government
  • Dec 3 Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London
  • Dec 4 Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
  • Dec 6 18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
  • Dec 7 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
  • Dec 8 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
  • Dec 8 Cole Porter's musical "NYCers" premieres in NYC
  • Dec 10 Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on light scattering - first Asian and non-white to win a Science Nobel

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Dec 10 German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin

Physicist and Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer
Physicist and Nobel Laureate
Hans Fischer
  • Dec 11 Bank of the United States closes in New York City
  • Dec 12 Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
  • Dec 12 Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
  • Dec 12 Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
  • Dec 13 French government of AndrĂ© Tardieu falls for the second time
  • Dec 13 George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
  • Dec 13 Theodore Steeg forms French government
  • Dec 14 NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game

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Dec 15 Don Bradman takes his 1st Test cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)

Cricket Legend Donald Bradman
Cricket Legend
Donald Bradman

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Dec 16 Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award

Golfer Bobby Jones
Golfer
Bobby Jones

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Dec 19 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP

Writer and Civil Rights Activist James Weldon Johnson
Writer and Civil Rights Activist
James Weldon Johnson
  • Dec 20 Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
  • Dec 22 Convention of Economic Rapprochement/Oslo Agreesments signed between some European countries in response to the Great Depression

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Dec 23 Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios

Actress Bette Davis
Actress
Bette Davis
  • Dec 23 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC

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Dec 24 Sukarno sentenced to four years in prison by Indonesian authorities in Bandung, Dutch East Indies

1st President of Indonesia Sukarno
1st President of Indonesia
Sukarno
  • Dec 24 F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid
  • Dec 25 1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
  • Dec 25 Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens
  • Dec 25 Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
  • Dec 25 Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
  • Dec 29 Fred P. Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minnesota, to New Orleans
  • Dec 31 Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
  • Dec 31 US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930