Notable Historical Events - 1930
1930 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant |
Jan 1 |
Jurgens & Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever |
Jan 5 |
Mao Zedong writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" |
Jan 5 |
Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house |
Jan 6 |
1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed |
Jan 6 |
Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 mins, 49 fours |
Jan 7 |
Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in NYC |
Jan 7 |
Marguerite Perey discovers Fr (francium), the last naturally occurring element to be found |
Jan 9 |
Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game |
Jan 10 |
Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England Christchurch |
Jan 10 |
Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch |
Jan 10 |
Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted |
Jan 12 |
NHL's Boston Bruins win then-record 14th consecutive game |
Jan 13 |
"Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears |
Jan 15 |
George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176) |
Jan 18 |
-27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record) |
Jan 18 |
Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad |
Jan 20 |
1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit) |
Jan 22 |
-35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record) |
Jan 23 |
Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto |
Jan 23 |
George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Va established |
Jan 23 |
WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions |
Jan 24 |
J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, NZ v England, Wellington |
Jan 24 |
Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century |
Jan 26 |
Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories) |
Jan 30 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad |
Jan 30 |
The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR. |
Jan 31 |
1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, NJ |
Feb 1 |
Arnold Schönbergs opera, Von heute auf Morgen premieres in Frankfurt |
Feb 3 |
William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons |
Feb 3 |
The Communist Party of Vietnam is established. |
Feb 4 |
1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans |
Feb 5 |
5th Aliyah to Israel begins |
Feb 8 |
"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1 |
Feb 10 |
Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress |
Feb 15 |
Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes |
Feb 17 |
French government of Tardieu falls |
Feb 18 |
Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted |
Feb 18 |
Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan |
Feb 18 |
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in NYC |
Feb 18 |
US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto |
Feb 20 |
Capelle soccer team forms |
Feb 21 |
Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC |
Feb 25 |
Check photographing device patented |
Feb 25 |
George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket v England (114 & 112) |
Feb 26 |
"Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater |
Feb 26 |
1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC) |
Feb 26 |
West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England |
Feb 27 |
Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency |
Mar 2 |
1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building |
Mar 4 |
Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated |
Mar 4 |
Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman |
Mar 4 |
Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people. |
Mar 6 |
Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food |
Mar 7 |
Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball |
Mar 8 |
Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" |
Mar 11 |
Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington |
Mar 12 |
Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax |
Mar 12 |
Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1) |
Mar 13 |
Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory |
Mar 15 |
1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY |
Mar 15 |
1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched |
Mar 16 |
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine |
Mar 18 |
Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game |
Mar 19 |
Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi |
Mar 20 |
Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph |
Mar 23 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
Mar 23 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
Mar 24 |
1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC) |
Mar 24 |
Planet Pluto named |
Mar 26 |
Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway |
Mar 27 |
1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea |
Mar 28 |
1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston) |
Mar 28 |
Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara |
Mar 29 |
Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler. |
Mar 30 |
Babberich-H soccer team forms |
Mar 31 |
The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years. |
Apr 1 |
"Blue Angel" starring unknown Marlene Dietrich premieres in America |
Apr 2 |
1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda |
Apr 3 |
Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
Apr 3 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games |
Apr 3 |
2nd Academy Awards - "The Broadway Melody", Warner Baxter & Mary Pickford win |
Apr 4 |
Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century |
Apr 4 |
Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149) |
Apr 4 |
The Communist Party of Panama is founded. |
Apr 5 |
England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325 |
Apr 6 |
1st transcontinental glider tow completed |
Apr 6 |
Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar |
Apr 10 |
George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston |
Apr 10 |
Synthetic rubber 1st produced |
Apr 12 |
4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days |
Apr 12 |
Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days |
Apr 14 |
Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC |
Apr 17 |
Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR |
Apr 17 |
DuPont scientist Elmer K. Bolton invents neoprene using Julius Nieuwland's divinyl acetylene |
Apr 18 |
Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da. |
Apr 19 |
34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:34:48.2 |
Apr 21 |
Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322 |
Apr 21 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid" premieres in Moscow |
Apr 22 |
US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty |
Apr 22 |
British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong in Bengal province, British India leaving 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries dead. |
Apr 28 |
1st night organized baseball game played in Independence Kansas |
Apr 29 |
123 runs are scored in 7 major league games |
Apr 29 |
North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens |
Apr 29 |
Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service |
May 1 |
Bradman scores 236 Aust v Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng |
May 2 |
Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights |
May 5 |
Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia |
May 5 |
Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours |
May 7 |
Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins |
May 9 |
56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6 |
May 10 |
1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago) |
May 10 |
Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 v Yorkshire at Sheffield |
May 12 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) |
May 13 |
Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas; only known fatality due to hail |
May 15 |
Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne) |
May 16 |
6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2 |
May 17 |
56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6 |
May 19 |
White women win voting rights in South Africa |
May 20 |
1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot |
May 20 |
University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention & cure of athlete's foot |
May 21 |
Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader |
May 21 |
NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers |
May 22 |
Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930) |
May 22 |
Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game |
May 24 |
1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson) |
May 24 |
Bradman scores 252* Australia v Surrey, 290 mins, 29 fours |
May 24 |
Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week |
May 26 |
Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway |
May 26 |
Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution |
May 27 |
Richard Drew invents masking tape |
May 27 |
The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. |
May 28 |
Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Bill Arnold wins (161.6 kph) |
May 31 |
Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season |
May 31 |
Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium |
May 31 |
Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth |
Jun 1 |
6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (3-6 8-6 6-3 6-1) |
Jun 1 |
6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-2 6-1) |
Jun 1 |
Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine |
Jun 1 |
Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia v Hampshire, 240 mins, 26 fours |
Jun 2 |
Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati |
Jun 3 |
Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies |
Jun 7 |
62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6 |
Jun 7 |
NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro" |
Jun 9 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4) |
Jun 9 |
Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone. |
Jun 10 |
Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms |
Jun 12 |
34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen CC Minn |
Jun 12 |
Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 13 |
1st Nudist Colony opens |
Jun 13 |
22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece |
Jun 14 |
VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht |
Jun 16 |
Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. |
Jun 17 |
Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge |
Jun 17 |
Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games |
Jun 18 |
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held. |
Jun 20 |
65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake |
Jun 21 |
Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7 |
Jun 22 |
Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader |
Jun 23 |
Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8 |
Jun 24 |
1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC |
Jun 24 |
Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium |
Jun 28 |
1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs |
Jun 30 |
1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY |
Jun 30 |
Don Bradman scores 254 for Australia at Lord's v England, 320 mins, 25 fours |
Jul 1 |
Great Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq |
Jul 3 |
US Veterans Administration created |
Jul 4 |
43rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (6-2 6-2) |
Jul 5 |
50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (6-3 9-7 6-4) |
Jul 7 |
Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam |
Jul 11 |
Bradman scores 309 in a day vs England at Leeds, goes on to 334 |
Jul 12 |
34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins |
Jul 12 |
Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 mins, 46 fours |
Jul 13 |
1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay |
Jul 13 |
Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home" |
Jul 18 |
SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland |
Jul 19 |
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica |
Jul 20 |
106°F (41°C), Washington, DC (district record) |
Jul 21 |
110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record) |
Jul 21 |
US Veterans Administration forms |
Jul 23 |
Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed |
Jul 23 |
Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th) |
Jul 25 |
Phila Athletics triple steal in 1st & 4th innings vs Cleveland |
Jul 27 |
Andre Leducq wins Tour de France |
Jul 27 |
25th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (4-1) |
Jul 28 |
114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record) |
Jul 29 |
115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record) |
Jul 29 |
Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada |
Jul 30 |
1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio |
Jul 30 |
Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo |
Jul 31 |
Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13 |
Aug 3 |
2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games |
Aug 4 |
Child labor laws established in Belgium |
Aug 6 |
Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC |
Aug 6 |
Remains of Solomon Andrees' balloon expedition to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen |
Aug 7 |
A large mob estimated at 2,000 lynch two young black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana |
Aug 7 |
Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government |
Aug 7 |
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King loses the election to Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative Party |
Aug 8 |
St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant |
Aug 9 |
113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record) |
Aug 9 |
Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes |
Aug 9 |
Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec) |
Aug 16 |
The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks. |
Aug 18 |
Eastern Airlines begins passenger service |
Aug 20 |
Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval |
Aug 20 |
Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC) |
Aug 21 |
Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished |
Aug 22 |
Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test |
Aug 23 |
44th US Women's Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (6-1 6-4) |
Aug 26 |
Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record |
Aug 29 |
The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. |
Sep 1 |
NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater |
Sep 2 |
1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs) |
Sep 3 |
Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic) |
Sep 4 |
Cambridge Theatre opens in London |
Sep 6 |
Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8 |
Sep 6 |
Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. |
Sep 8 |
1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie" |
Sep 8 |
NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew |
Sep 8 |
Richard Drew creates Scotch tape |
Sep 10 |
Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia |
Sep 11 |
Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles |
Sep 12 |
Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR |
Sep 13 |
50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 1-6 6-4 16-14) |
Sep 13 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4) |
Sep 13 |
Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament |
Sep 13 |
Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3 |
Sep 14 |
Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6 |
Sep 14 |
Nazis gain 107 seats in German election |
Sep 15 |
1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England |
Sep 16 |
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 18 |
Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup |
Sep 18 |
NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 |
Sep 18 |
Phila A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row |
Sep 20 |
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios. |
Sep 21 |
Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb |
Sep 24 |
G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime" premieres in NY |
Sep 24 |
Noel Coward's "Private Lives" premieres in London |
Sep 24 |
Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights |
Sep 25 |
Austrian government of Vaugoin forms |
Sep 25 |
Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager |
Sep 25 |
Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC |
Sep 27 |
34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones |
Sep 27 |
Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs |
Sep 27 |
White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns |
Sep 28 |
Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games |
Sep 29 |
1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC |
Sep 29 |
Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute |
Sep 29 |
Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons |
Sep 29 |
NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising |
Oct 1 |
Soccer team WHC forms |
Oct 1 |
World Series opens at Phila's Shibe Park, Phila A's beat St Louis 5-2 |
Oct 4 |
A's Jack Quinn, 46, pitches 2 inn, is oldest to play in World Series |
Oct 5 |
British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die |
Oct 8 |
Phila A's beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series |
Oct 9 |
1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls |
Oct 10 |
AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP |
Oct 10 |
Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years |
Oct 11 |
Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year. |
Oct 13 |
New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform |
Oct 14 |
Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy" |
Oct 14 |
George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in NYC |
Oct 18 |
Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day |
Oct 19 |
Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6) |
Oct 20 |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio |
Oct 20 |
British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land |
Oct 22 |
1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult |
Oct 22 |
Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930" premieres in NYC |
Oct 22 |
SC Genemuiden soccer team forms |
Oct 24 |
A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president." |
Oct 25 |
1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center |
Oct 25 |
1st scheduled transcontinental air service began |
Oct 26 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "Zolotoy Vyek" premieres in Leningrad |
Oct 29 |
1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach |
Oct 30 |
Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship |
Nov 2 |
Ras (euqiv. Duke) Tafari Makonnen is crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty in Ethiopia |
Nov 3 |
First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens |
Nov 3 |
Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America |
Nov 3 |
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. |
Nov 5 |
Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt" |
Nov 5 |
3rd Academy Awards - "All Quiet on the Western Front", George Arliss & Norma Shearer win |
Nov 8 |
Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro" premieres in Berlin |
Nov 9 |
1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama |
Nov 11 |
Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. |
Nov 13 |
WA Drake's "Grand Hotel" premieres in NYC |
Nov 17 |
Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC |
Nov 18 |
Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC |
Nov 18 |
Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose" premiers in Lenningrad |
Nov 18 |
Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda. |
Nov 22 |
1st Irish Sweepstake run |
Nov 22 |
1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0) |
Nov 22 |
Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit |
Nov 23 |
NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage |
Nov 24 |
Ruth Nichols sets women's transcontinental air flight record (Mineola, NY to California), in a Lockheed-Vega |
Nov 25 |
690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito, Japan) |
Nov 25 |
Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP |
Nov 28 |
Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres |
Dec 1 |
NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty |
Dec 3 |
Airborn chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley, Belgium) |
Dec 3 |
Otto Ender forms Austrian government |
Dec 3 |
Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London |
Dec 4 |
French government of Tardieu falls |
Dec 4 |
Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control |
Dec 6 |
18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6 |
Dec 7 |
13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing |
Dec 8 |
Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC |
Dec 8 |
Cole Porter's musical "NYCers" premieres in NYC |
Dec 11 |
Bank of the United States closes in New York City |
Dec 12 |
Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book |
Dec 12 |
Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double |
Dec 12 |
Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide) |
Dec 13 |
George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him |
Dec 13 |
Theodore Steeg forms French government |
Dec 14 |
NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game |
Dec 15 |
Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw) |
Dec 16 |
Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award |
Dec 18 |
Bradman scores 258 NSW v South Aust, 289 mins, 37 fours |
Dec 19 |
James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP |
Dec 20 |
Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5) |
Dec 22 |
Convention of Economic Rapprochement/Oslo Agreesments signed between some European countries in response to the Great Depression |
Dec 23 |
Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios |
Dec 23 |
Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC |
Dec 24 |
Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced |
Dec 24 |
F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid |
Dec 25 |
1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY) |
Dec 25 |
Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens |
Dec 25 |
Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,422 |
Dec 25 |
Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500 |
Dec 29 |
Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans |
Dec 31 |
Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages |
Dec 31 |
US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930 |
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