Historical Events for Year 1930 (Part 2)

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Jun 13th - 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
Jun 14th - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
Jun 16th - Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
Jun 17th - Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge
Jun 17th - Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
Jun 18th - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
Jun 20th - 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
Jun 21st - Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
Jun 22nd - Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
Jun 23rd - Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
Jun 24th - 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
Jun 24th - Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
Jun 28th - 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs
Jun 30th - 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
Jun 30th - Bradman scores 254 at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours
Jul 1st - Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
Jul 3rd - Veterans Administration created
Jul 4th - 43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
Jul 5th - 50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
Jul 7th - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
Jul 11th - Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334
Jul 12th - 34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
Jul 12th - Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 mins, 46 fours
Jul 13th - 1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
Jul 13th - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
Jul 18th - SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
Jul 20th - 106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record)
Jul 21st - 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
Jul 21st - US Veterans Administration forms
Jul 23rd - Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
Jul 23rd - Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
Jul 25th - Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland
Jul 27th - Andre Leducq wins Tour de France
Jul 28th - 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
Jul 29th - 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
Jul 29th - Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
Jul 30th - 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
Jul 30th - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
Jul 31st - Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
Aug 3rd - 2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
Aug 4th - Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
Aug 6th - Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
Aug 6th - Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen
Aug 7th - 2 black guys lynched in Marion Indiana
Aug 7th - Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
Aug 8th - St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
Aug 9th - 113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
Aug 9th - Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
Aug 9th - Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)
Aug 16th - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
Aug 18th - Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
Aug 20th - Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
Aug 20th - Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
Aug 21st - Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
Aug 22nd - Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test
Aug 23rd - 44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
Aug 26th - Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
Aug 29th - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
Sep 1st - NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
Sep 2nd - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
Sep 3rd - Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
Sep 4th - Cambridge Theater opens in London
Sep 6th - Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
Sep 6th - Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
Sep 8th - 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
Sep 8th - NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
Sep 8th - Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
Sep 10th - Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
Sep 11th - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
Sep 12th - Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
Sep 13th - 50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
Sep 13th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
Sep 13th - Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
Sep 13th - Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
Sep 14th - Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
Sep 14th - Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
Sep 15th - 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
Sep 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
Sep 18th - Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
Sep 18th - NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
Sep 18th - Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
Sep 20th - Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
Sep 21st - Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb
Sep 24th - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY
Sep 24th - Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London
Sep 24th - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
Sep 25th - Austrian govt of Vaugoin forms
Sep 25th - Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
Sep 25th - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in NYC
Sep 27th - 34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
Sep 27th - Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
Sep 27th - White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
Sep 28th - Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
Sep 29th - 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
Sep 29th - Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
Sep 29th - Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
Sep 29th - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
Sep 29th - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
Oct 1st - Soccer team WHC forms
Oct 1st - World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Phila A's beat St Louis 5-2
Oct 4th - A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series
Oct 5th - British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
Oct 8th - Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
Oct 9th - 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
Oct 10th - AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
Oct 10th - Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
Oct 11th - Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
Oct 13th - New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform
Oct 14th - Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy"
Oct 14th - George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC
Oct 18th - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
Oct 19th - Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
Oct 20th - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
Oct 20th - British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
Oct 22nd - 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
Oct 22nd - Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930," premieres in NYC
Oct 22nd - SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
Oct 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."
Oct 25th - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
Oct 25th - 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
Oct 26th - Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek," premieres in Leningrad
Oct 29th - 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
Oct 30th - Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
Nov 2nd - Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
Nov 3rd - 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
Nov 3rd - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
Nov 3rd - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
Nov 5th - Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
Nov 8th - Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin
Nov 9th - 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
Nov 11th - Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
Nov 13th - WA Drake's "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
Nov 17th - Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
Nov 18th - Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope/Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
Nov 18th - Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad
Nov 18th - Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
Nov 22nd - 1st Irish Sweepstake run
Nov 22nd - 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
Nov 22nd - Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
Nov 23rd - NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
Nov 24th - 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
Nov 25th - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
Nov 25th - Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP
Nov 28th - Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic," premieres
Dec 1st - NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
Dec 1st - Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
Dec 3rd - Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
Dec 3rd - Otto Ender forms Austrian govt
Dec 3rd - Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen," premieres in London
Dec 4th - French govt of Tardieu falls


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