Historical Events in December 1930

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

Dec 11 Bank of the United States closes in New York City
Dec 12 Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book, ball bouncing 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 André 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

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

Dec 16 Golfer Bobby Jones is the first to win the James E. Sullivan Award (best US amateur athlete)

Dec 19 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP

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

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

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

Dec 24 F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid
Dec 25 Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens, 1st US bobsled run open to public
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