Historical Events for December 1930
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Months in 1930: January February March April May June July August September October November
Results 1 - 36 of 36
1st - NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
1st - Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
3rd - Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
3rd - Otto Ender forms Austrian govt
3rd - Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen," premieres in London
4th - French govt of Tardieu falls
4th - Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
6th - 18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
6th - Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
7th - 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
8th - Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
8th - Cole Porter's musical "NYCers," premieres in NYC
11th - Bank of the United States opens in NYC
12th - Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
12th - Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
12th - Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
13th - George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
13th - Theodore Steeg forms French govt
14th - NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
15th - Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)
16th - Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award
18th - Bradman scores 258 NSW v South Aust, 289 mins, 37 fours
19th - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
20th - Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
22nd - 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
23rd - Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
23rd - Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
24th - Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
24th - F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid
25th - 1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
25th - Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens
25th - Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
25th - Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
29th - Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
31st - Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
31st - US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930
