Historical Events for October 1930

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1st - Soccer team WHC forms
1st - World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Phila A's beat St Louis 5-2
4th - A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series
5th - British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
8th - Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
9th - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
10th - AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
10th - Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
11th - Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
13th - New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform
14th - Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy"
14th - George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC
18th - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
19th - Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
20th - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
20th - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
22nd - 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
22nd - Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in NYC
22nd - SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
24th - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
25th - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
25th - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
26th - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad
29th - 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
30th - Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship


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