Historical Events in 1930 (Part 2)

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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

• Aug 8 St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
• Aug 9 113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
• Aug 9 Animated character Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's cartoon "Dizzy Dishes"
• Aug 9 Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)

• Aug 16 The first color sound cartoon "Fiddlesticks" by Ub Iwerks (ex Walt Disney studio) is released
• Aug 16 I British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Canada
• Aug 18 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service

• Aug 20 Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
• Aug 21 Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
• Aug 22 Australian cricket slow-medium bowler Percy Hornibrook takes 7-92 as England dismissed for 251 in an innings defeat in 5th Test at The Oval; Australia regain Ashes, 2-1

• Aug 23 1st British Empire Games close in Hamilton, Canada

• 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

• 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 Richard 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

• 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 pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
• 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

• 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 Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs

• Sep 29 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
• Sep 29 Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
• Sep 29 Lowell Thomas made debuts 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 Philadelphia A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
• Oct 9 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls

• 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

• 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

• Oct 25 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
• Oct 25 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began

• Oct 29 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
• Oct 30 Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship

• Nov 3 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens

• 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"

• Nov 8 Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro" premieres in Berlin
• Nov 9 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama

• Nov 13 WA Drake's "Grand Hotel" premieres in NYC


• Nov 17 Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC

• Nov 18 Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
• Nov 22 1st Irish Sweepstake run
• Nov 22 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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, 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

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