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- Aug 6 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
- Aug 6 Remains of balloon expedition of Solamon August Andrées to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen
- Aug 7 A large mob estimated at 2,000, lynch two young black men Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana
Election of Interest
Aug 7 Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King loses the election to Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative Party
Historic Invention
Aug 12 Clarence Birdseye is granted a patent for method for quick freezing food (patent US 1773079 A)
US Open Women's Tennis
Aug 23 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: England's Betty Nuthall Shoemaker beats Anna McCune Harper 6-1, 6-4 for her lone major title
- Aug 23 1st British Empire Games close in Hamilton, Canada
Baseball Record
Aug 26 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
- Aug 29 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- Sep 1 NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
- Sep 2 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
- Sep 3 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
- Sep 4 Cambridge Theatre opens in London
- Sep 6 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
Coup d'état
Sep 6 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
- Sep 6 3rd Women's World Games (track & field competition for women) is conducted over 3-days at the Letná Stadium in Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Sep 8 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
- Sep 8 NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
- Sep 8 American inventor Richard Gurley Drew creates Scotch tape
- Sep 10 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
- Sep 11 Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
- Sep 12 Brooklyn catcher Al López hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
World Record
Sep 13 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
- Sep 13 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Fresh Meadow CC: American based Scotsman Tommy Armour defeats Gene Sarazen 1-up in the final for the second of his 3 major titles
- Sep 13 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
- Sep 13 50th US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: John Doeg beats Frank Shields 10-8, 1-6, 6-4, 16-14 for his lone major singles title
- Sep 14 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
- Sep 14 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
- Sep 15 1st international bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
- Sep 16 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 18 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (UK) in 15th America's Cup
- Sep 18 NY Yankee future Baseball HOF pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
- Sep 18 Philadelphia A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
- Sep 20 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
- Sep 21 Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb
- Sep 24 G Kaufman & M Hart's comedy "Once in a Lifetime" premieres in NY
Theater Premiere
Sep 24 Noël Coward's play "Private Lives" premieres in London
- Sep 24 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
- Sep 25 Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
- Sep 25 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC
- Sep 27 US Amateur Championship Men's Golf, Merion GC: Bobby Jones scores an 8 & 7 win over Eugene V. Homans to win his 5th National Amateur title and clinch golf's Grand Slam
- Sep 27 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
Sports History
Sep 28 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
- Sep 29 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
- Sep 29 Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
- Sep 29 Lowell Thomas makes his debut on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
- Sep 29 NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
- Oct 4 Philadelphia Athletics' Jack Quinn aged 47, oldest to play in World Series; pitches 2 innings in Game 3, 5-0 defeat to St. Louis; win series, 4-2
- Oct 5 British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais, France, 48 die
- Oct 5 Homecoming of the bodies of Swedish polar balloon expedition (1897) led by Salomon August Andrée
- Oct 8 Baseball World Series: Philadelphia A's beat St Louis Cards, 7-1 at Shibe Park for a 4 games to 2 series victory to retain title
- Oct 9 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
Sports History
Oct 10 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
- Oct 10 Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
- Oct 11 Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
- Oct 13 New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP members in uniform
Music Premiere
Oct 14 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's musical "Girl Crazy" starring Ginger Rogers and featuring debut of Ethel Merman, opens at the Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 272 performances
- Oct 18 Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
- Oct 19 Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
- Oct 20 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premieres on NBC radio
- Oct 20 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
- Oct 22 1st concert of BBC Symphony Orchestra, at Queen's Hall, under Adrian Boult
- Oct 22 Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930" premieres in NYC
- Oct 22 SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
Coup d'état
Oct 24 A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president."
Music History
Oct 26 Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet "Zolotoy Vyek" premieres in Leningrad
Royal Coronation
Nov 2 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethiopian Solmonic Dynasty
- Nov 3 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
Historic Event
Nov 3 Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America
- Nov 3 Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- Nov 5 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
Academy Awards
Nov 5 3rd Academy Awards: "All Quiet on the Western Front", George Arliss (Disraeli) and Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) win
Historic Invention
Nov 11 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention of the Einstein refrigerator
Music Premiere
Nov 18 Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
Historic Event
Nov 22 Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
- Nov 23 NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
- Nov 24 Ruth Nichols sets women's transcontinental air flight record (Mineola, NY to California), in a Lockheed-Vega
- Nov 25 Ito, Japan records 690 earthquake shocks in 1 day
- Nov 25 Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP
Music Premiere
Nov 28 Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres
Music Premiere
Dec 3 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London
- Dec 4 Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
- Dec 6 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Balmy Beach win their 2nd and final title; defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
- Dec 7 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Fresh Meadows CC: American based Scotsman Tommy Armour defeats Gene Sarazen 1 up in the final for the 2nd of his 3 major titles
- Dec 8 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
Music Premiere
Dec 8 Cole Porter's musical "The New Yorkers" opens at B. S. Moss's Broadway Theatre, NYC; runs for 169 performances
- 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
Nobel Prize
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 14 National Football League Championship: Green Bay Packers (10-3-1) repeat with best record in first past the post title
- Dec 15 Occasional leg-spin bowler Don Bradman takes his 1st of only 2 Test cricket wickets when he traps West Indian batsman Ivan Barrow lbw for 27 in the 1st Test in Adelaide
Sports History
Dec 16 Golfer Bobby Jones is the first to win the James E. Sullivan Award (best US amateur athlete)
Historic Event
Dec 19 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
Contract of Interest
Dec 23 Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
- Dec 23 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
- Dec 24 F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid
- Dec 25 Mt, Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens; first American 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