Historical Events for September 1930

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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 govt 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 - Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
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


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