Today in History for September 1930

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 39 of 39

1st - NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
2nd - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
3rd - Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
4th - Cambridge Theater opens in London
6th - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
6th - Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
8th - 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
8th - NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
8th - Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
10th - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
11th - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
12th - Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
13th - 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
13th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
13th - Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
13th - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
14th - Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
14th - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
15th - 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
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
18th - Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
18th - NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
18th - Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
20th - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
21st - Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb
24th - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY
24th - Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London
24th - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
25th - Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
25th - Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
25th - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in NYC
27th - 34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
27th - Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
27th - White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
28th - Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
29th - 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
29th - Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
29th - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
29th - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 61 of 61

2nd - Andrey Pavlovich Petrov, composer
3rd - Cherry Barbara Grimm, [Lockett], NZ, sci-fi author (Nearest Fire)
3rd - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
4th - Jerry Ragavoy, US songwriter/producer (Wonderful Dream)
4th - Mitzi Gaynor, actress (Bird & Vees, Anything Goes, South Pacific)
6th - Andre Beullens, Flemish painter
7th - Baudouin I, king of Belgium (1951-93)
7th - Sonny Rollins, NYC, jazz saxophonist (Blue Room)
7th - Thijs van Vlijmen, Dutch MP (CDA)
8th - Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon
8th - Jeanette Altwegg, England, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1952)
8th - Mario Adorf, Zurich Switzerland, actor (Bachelor, Abyssinia)
8th - Nguyen Cao Ky, Premier of South Vietnam
8th - Robert W. Firestone, Author, Artist, Clinical Psychologist
9th - Paolo Castaldi, composer
9th - Frank Lucas, Drug Lord
10th - Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat
11th - Cathryn Damon, Seattle Wash, actress (Mary-Soap, She's Having a Baby)
11th - Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
12th - Larry Austin, composer
13th - James McLane, US, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
13th - Robert Gavron, English publisher/multi-millionaire (St Ives)
14th - Allan Bloom, American academic (d. 1992)
16th - Ken Coates, MEP (Labour)
16th - Anne Francis, Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa)
17th - David Huddleston, Vinton Va, actor (How the West Was Won)
17th - Dorothy Loudon, Cambridge Mass, actress/singer (Garry Moore Show)
17th - Edgar Dean Mitchell, Hereford Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Apollo 14)
17th - Gwyn Francis, British Forestry commissioner
17th - Thomas P Stafford, Weatherford Ok, USAF/astronaut (Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18)
17th - Jim Rohn, American business philosopher
17th - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
19th - Muhal Richard Abrams, composer
19th - Rosemary Harris, Ashby Suffolk England, actress (Holocaust)
19th - Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
21st - Dawn Addams, Felixstown Engl, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens)
22nd - Antonio Saura, Spanish painter
22nd - Roger Durham Hannay, composer
23rd - Colin Blakely, Bangor N Ireland, actor (Shattered, Equus, King Lear)
23rd - Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin, cosmonaut (Soyuyz 7, 10, 11 backup)
Musician Ray Charles (23rd) 23rd - Ray Charles [Robinson], Albany Ga, singer/pianist (Georgia), (Georgia on My Mind, Mess Around) (d. 2004)
23rd - Sehba Akhtar,poet of Pakistan (d.1996)
24th - John Watts Young, SF California, astronaut (Gem 3 10, Apol 10 16, STS 1 9)
24th - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
24th - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
25th - H Heckmann, writer
25th - Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
26th - Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58)
26th - Philip Bosco, Jersey City, actor (Trading Places)
27th - Igor Kipnis, Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor (Fairfield)
27th - Roger Birch, Chief Constable (Sussex)
28th - Robin Buchanan, CEO (NHS Supplies Auth, Wessex Regional Health Auth)
28th - Tommy Collins, [Leonard Sipes], country singer (Don't Growl)
28th - Ugo Gregoretti, Rome Italy, actor (Rogopag, Common Sense of Modesty)
29th - Colin Dexter, author
29th - Morag Timbury, director (Central Public Health Laboratory)
29th - Peter Miller, CEO (Lloyd's of London)
29th - Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's)
29th - Richard Bonynge, Sydney Australia, conductor (Aust Orch Sydney-1976)
29th - Billy Strange [William], Long Beach, California, singer-songwriter (A Little Less Conversation), (d. 2012)
30th - Ben Cooper, Hartford CT, actor (Rose Tattoo, Outcast, Arizona Raiders)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

11th - Mystery writer Agatha Christie (39) weds archaeologist Max Mallowan (26)
29th - Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

5th - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
10th - G A Faulkner, cricketer (S Afr googly all-rounder), commits suicide
15th - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
23rd - Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62
24th - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
29th - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter (b. 1844)