01 Jan 1930
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Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant
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01 Jan 1930
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Jurgens and Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever
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05 Jan 1930
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Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
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06 Jan 1930
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1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
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06 Jan 1930
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The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York. |
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09 Jan 1930
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Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
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10 Jan 1930
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Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs New Zealand Christchurch
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10 Jan 1930
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Commencement of New Zealand's 1st Test, vs England Christchurch
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10 Jan 1930
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Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
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12 Jan 1930
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NHL's Boston Bruins win then-record 14th consecutive game
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13 Jan 1930
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"Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
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13 Jan 1930
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"Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
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15 Jan 1930
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George Headley scores century on debut vs England (made 176)
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18 Jan 1930
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18 Jan 1930
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Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "The Nose" premieres in Leningrad
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20 Jan 1930
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1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
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22 Jan 1930
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23 Jan 1930
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WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
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23 Jan 1930
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George Washington Birthplace National Monument VA established
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23 Jan 1930
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Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
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24 Jan 1930
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J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, New Zealand vs England, Wellington
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24 Jan 1930
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Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
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26 Jan 1930
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The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later. |
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26 Jan 1930
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Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
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30 Jan 1930
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Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya" premieres in Leningrad
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31 Jan 1930
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3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. |
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31 Jan 1930
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1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst New Jersey
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03 Feb 1930
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Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
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03 Feb 1930
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William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
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03 Feb 1930
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Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong. |
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04 Feb 1930
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1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
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05 Feb 1930
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5th Aliyah to Israel begins
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08 Feb 1930
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"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
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10 Feb 1930
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Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina |
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10 Feb 1930
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Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
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15 Feb 1930
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Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes
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16 Feb 1930
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The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA. |
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17 Feb 1930
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French government of Tardieu, falls
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18 Feb 1930
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Cow flown and milked, milk sealed in paper containers and parachuted
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18 Feb 1930
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Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft. |
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18 Feb 1930
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While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. |
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18 Feb 1930
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Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi" premieres in Milan
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18 Feb 1930
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Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon" premieres in New York NY
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18 Feb 1930
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US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
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20 Feb 1930
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Capelle soccer team forms
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21 Feb 1930
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Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures" premieres in New York NY
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25 Feb 1930
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Check photographing device patented
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25 Feb 1930
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George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs England (114 & 112)
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26 Feb 1930
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"Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
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26 Feb 1930
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"The Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
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26 Feb 1930
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1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
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26 Feb 1930
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West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
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27 Feb 1930
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Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
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02 Mar 1930
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1st US indoor glider flight, St. Louis Terminal Building
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04 Mar 1930
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Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
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04 Mar 1930
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Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
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06 Mar 1930
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International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern |
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07 Mar 1930
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Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
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08 Mar 1930
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Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
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08 Mar 1930
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Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
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11 Mar 1930
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President & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
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12 Mar 1930
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Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt |
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12 Mar 1930
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Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax
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12 Mar 1930
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Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0: 6.1)
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13 Mar 1930
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The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory. |
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13 Mar 1930
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Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
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15 Mar 1930
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1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, New York
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15 Mar 1930
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1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
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16 Mar 1930
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USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
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18 Mar 1930
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Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
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18 Mar 1930
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Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (US)
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19 Mar 1930
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Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
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20 Mar 1930
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Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph
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23 Mar 1930
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US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson
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23 Mar 1930
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US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
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24 Mar 1930
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1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS, New York NY)
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24 Mar 1930
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Planet Pluto named
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24 Mar 1930
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26 Mar 1930
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Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
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27 Mar 1930
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1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
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28 Mar 1930
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Constantinople and Angora changes names to Istanbul and Ankara
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28 Mar 1930
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Turkey's Postal Service Law rejects delivery of mail addressed Constantinople and Angora, making the Turkish names Istanbul and Ankara obligatory. |
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28 Mar 1930
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1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)
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29 Mar 1930
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Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler. |
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30 Mar 1930
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Babberich-H soccer team forms
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31 Mar 1930
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The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years. |
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01 Apr 1930
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"Blue Angel, " starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America
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02 Apr 1930
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1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
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02 Apr 1930
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After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia. |
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03 Apr 1930
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Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
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03 Apr 1930
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Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
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04 Apr 1930
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The Communist Party of Panama is founded. |
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05 Apr 1930
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England out for 849 vs. WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
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06 Apr 1930
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1st transcontinental glider tow completed
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06 Apr 1930
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Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
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06 Apr 1930
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Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha. |
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10 Apr 1930
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Synthetic rubber 1st produced
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10 Apr 1930
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George Headley scores 223 vs England at Kingston
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12 Apr 1930
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4th Test Cricket West Indies vs England ends in a draw after nine days
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12 Apr 1930
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Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
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14 Apr 1930
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Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe", premieres in NYC
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17 Apr 1930
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Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
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17 Apr 1930
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Abkhazian ASSR established in Georgian SSR
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18 Apr 1930
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BBC reported there was no news, then played out with piano music. |
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19 Apr 1930
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Clarence DeMar wins his 7th Boston Marathon
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19 Apr 1930
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34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Massachusetts in 2:34:48.2
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21 Apr 1930
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Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
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21 Apr 1930
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Fire (set as part of an escape attempt) at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320
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21 Apr 1930
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Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid", premieres in Moscow
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22 Apr 1930
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US, Britain and Japan sign London Naval Treaty
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22 Apr 1930
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The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. |
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22 Apr 1930
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US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty to reduce naval forces
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28 Apr 1930
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A night baseball game takes place between the Class C Independence Producers and the Muskogee Chiefs in Independence, Kansas using temporary lights. This is one of several games claimed as the first night game in organized baseball. |
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28 Apr 1930
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1st night organized baseball game (Independence KS)
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29 Apr 1930
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123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
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29 Apr 1930
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North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
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29 Apr 1930
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Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
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01 May 1930
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Bradman scores 236 Aust vs. Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng
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01 May 1930
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The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named. |
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02 May 1930
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Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights
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05 May 1930
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1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
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07 May 1930
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Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex vs. Northants in 330 minutes
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09 May 1930
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56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6
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10 May 1930
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1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
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10 May 1930
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Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 vs Yorkshire at Sheffield
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12 May 1930
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Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
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13 May 1930
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Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
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13 May 1930
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Only known fatality due to hail
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13 May 1930
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Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock TX; this is the only known fatality due to hail
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15 May 1930
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Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Fransisco to Cheyenne)
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16 May 1930
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6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
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16 May 1930
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6th Walker Cup: US 10-Great Britain/Ireland 2
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17 May 1930
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56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
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19 May 1930
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White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
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20 May 1930
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1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
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20 May 1930
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University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention & cure of athlete's foot
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21 May 1930
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Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
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21 May 1930
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New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
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22 May 1930
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Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
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22 May 1930
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Ruth hits 3 consecutive homeruns (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
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22 May 1930
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Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 homeruns in a game
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24 May 1930
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Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). |
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24 May 1930
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1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
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24 May 1930
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Babe Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
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24 May 1930
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Bradman scores 252 Australia vs Surrey, 290 minutes, 29 fours
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26 May 1930
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event
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Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway
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26 May 1930
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Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Caraway
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26 May 1930
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Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
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27 May 1930
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The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. |
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27 May 1930
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Richard Drew invents masking tape
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28 May 1930
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Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand
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30 May 1930
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Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
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31 May 1930
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Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season
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31 May 1930
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Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
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31 May 1930
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event
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Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
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01 Jun 1930
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event
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6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)
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01 Jun 1930
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6th French Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (62 61)
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01 Jun 1930
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event
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Alphense Boys soccer team forms in Alphen on Rhine
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02 Jun 1930
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Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
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03 Jun 1930
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Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies
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07 Jun 1930
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event
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62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
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07 Jun 1930
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event
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New York Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
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09 Jun 1930
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Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)
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09 Jun 1930
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A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. |
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10 Jun 1930
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Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
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12 Jun 1930
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34th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 287 at Interlachen Country Club - Minnesota
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12 Jun 1930
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Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in New York City
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12 Jun 1930
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Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title
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13 Jun 1930
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1st Nudist Colony opens
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13 Jun 1930
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22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
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14 Jun 1930
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VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
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16 Jun 1930
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Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. |
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17 Jun 1930
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U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. |
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17 Jun 1930
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Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
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18 Jun 1930
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Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held. |
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19 Jun 1930
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C Jackson & H E Wood discovers asteroid #1595 Tanga
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20 Jun 1930
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65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
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21 Jun 1930
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One-year conscription comes into force in France. |
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21 Jun 1930
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Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
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22 Jun 1930
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Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
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23 Jun 1930
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Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8
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24 Jun 1930
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Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
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24 Jun 1930
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1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
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27 Jun 1930
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P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1166 Sakuntala
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28 Jun 1930
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1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on Kansas City Monarchs
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30 Jun 1930
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1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady, New York
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01 Jul 1930
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event
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Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
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03 Jul 1930
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event
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Veterans Administration created
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04 Jul 1930
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43rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Elizabeth Ryan (62 62)
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05 Jul 1930
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event
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50th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W Allison (63 97 64)
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07 Jul 1930
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event
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Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
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07 Jul 1930
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Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). |
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11 Jul 1930
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Bradman scores 309 in a day vs. England at Leeds, goes on to 334
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11 Jul 1930
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Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England. |
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12 Jul 1930
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34th US Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins
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12 Jul 1930
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event
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Hedley Verity takes 10 for 10 vs. Notts (19 4-16-10-10) at Leeds
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13 Jul 1930
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event
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1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
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13 Jul 1930
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event
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Sarnoff reports in New York Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
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18 Jul 1930
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event
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SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
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20 Jul 1930
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event
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21 Jul 1930
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event
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US Veterans Administration forms
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21 Jul 1930
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event
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US Veterans Administration established
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22 Jul 1930
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event
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G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1306 Scythia
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22 Jul 1930
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event
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H Van Gent discovers asteroids #1666 van Gent, #1752 van Herk &
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23 Jul 1930
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Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
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25 Jul 1930
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Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs. Cleveland
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28 Jul 1930
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29 Jul 1930
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Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
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29 Jul 1930
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115
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30 Jul 1930
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1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
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30 Jul 1930
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event
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In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup. |
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30 Jul 1930
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event
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Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
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31 Jul 1930
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event
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The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time. |
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31 Jul 1930
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event
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Lou Gehrig grand slams as Yanks beat Red Sox 14-13
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03 Aug 1930
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event
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2nd time in 1930, Chuck Klein of Phillies hits in 26 straight games
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04 Aug 1930
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event
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Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
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06 Aug 1930
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event
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Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City
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06 Aug 1930
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Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again. |
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07 Aug 1930
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2 black guys lynched in Marion Indiana
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07 Aug 1930
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event
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Richard Bedford Bennet forms Canadian government
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07 Aug 1930
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The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. |
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08 Aug 1930
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St. Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant
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09 Aug 1930
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Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 seconds)
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09 Aug 1930
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Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes. |
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16 Aug 1930
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The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks. |
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16 Aug 1930
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The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon. |
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18 Aug 1930
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Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
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20 Aug 1930
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Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
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21 Aug 1930
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Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
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23 Aug 1930
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44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
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29 Aug 1930
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The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. |
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01 Sep 1930
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New York World reports disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater
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02 Sep 1930
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1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
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03 Sep 1930
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Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
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04 Sep 1930
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Cambridge Theater opens in London
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06 Sep 1930
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Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
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06 Sep 1930
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Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. |
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08 Sep 1930
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1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
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08 Sep 1930
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New York City public schools begin teaching Hebrew
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08 Sep 1930
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Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
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08 Sep 1930
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3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. |
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10 Sep 1930
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Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
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11 Sep 1930
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Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
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12 Sep 1930
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In cricket Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians. |
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13 Sep 1930
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50th US Mens Tennis: J H Doeg beats Francis Shields (10-8 16 64 16-14)
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13 Sep 1930
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Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
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13 Sep 1930
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Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
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14 Sep 1930
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Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
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14 Sep 1930
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Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
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15 Sep 1930
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1st International bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
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16 Sep 1930
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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
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17 Sep 1930
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The Ararat rebellion is suppressed. |
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18 Sep 1930
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New York Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St. Louis Browns, 7-6
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18 Sep 1930
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Philadelphia Athletics win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
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18 Sep 1930
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Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup
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20 Sep 1930
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Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios. |
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21 Sep 1930
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Johann Ostermeyer patents the flashbulb
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24 Sep 1930
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Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
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25 Sep 1930
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Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
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25 Sep 1930
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Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
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27 Sep 1930
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34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
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27 Sep 1930
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Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur. |
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27 Sep 1930
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Bobby Jones completes the Grand Slam of Golf
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27 Sep 1930
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White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle the ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
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28 Sep 1930
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Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
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29 Sep 1930
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Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee
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29 Sep 1930
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Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
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29 Sep 1930
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New York City College offers 1st course in radio advertising
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29 Sep 1930
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1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
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29 Sep 1930
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Boquer
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01 Oct 1930
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Soccer team WHC forms
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03 Oct 1930
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The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded following a split in DSAP in Łódź. |
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05 Oct 1930
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British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
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05 Oct 1930
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British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage. |
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08 Oct 1930
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Philadelphia Athletics beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2 in 27th World Series
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09 Oct 1930
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1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
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10 Oct 1930
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AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP and BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
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10 Oct 1930
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Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
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14 Oct 1930
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Ethel Mermans debuts on Broadway in "Girl Crazy"
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14 Oct 1930
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George Gershwin / Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in New York City
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18 Oct 1930
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Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day
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20 Oct 1930
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, premiers on NBC radio
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20 Oct 1930
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British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
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22 Oct 1930
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1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
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22 Oct 1930
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SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
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24 Oct 1930
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A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas is then installed as "provisional president." |
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25 Oct 1930
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1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
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25 Oct 1930
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1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
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27 Oct 1930
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Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. |
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29 Oct 1930
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1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs. Toronto Balmy Beach
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29 Oct 1930
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1st football game in eastern Canada played under floodlights
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30 Oct 1930
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Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
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02 Nov 1930
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Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
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02 Nov 1930
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Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. |
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03 Nov 1930
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1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
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03 Nov 1930
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Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
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03 Nov 1930
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Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. |
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05 Nov 1930
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Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
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09 Nov 1930
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1st nonstop airplane flight from New York to Panama
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17 Nov 1930
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Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in New York City
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18 Nov 1930
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Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope / Fred Astaire premieres in New York City
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22 Nov 1930
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1st Irish Sweepstake run
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22 Nov 1930
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Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
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22 Nov 1930
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1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
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23 Nov 1930
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New York Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
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24 Nov 1930
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1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, New York to California), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
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25 Nov 1930
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Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP and Joe Cronin as AL MVP
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25 Nov 1930
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690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
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01 Dec 1930
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NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
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01 Dec 1930
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Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
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02 Dec 1930
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Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. |
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03 Dec 1930
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Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
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03 Dec 1930
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Otto Ender forms Austrian government
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04 Dec 1930
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French government of Tardieu falls
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04 Dec 1930
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Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
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06 Dec 1930
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18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
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06 Dec 1930
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Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
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07 Dec 1930
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13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows Country Club
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07 Dec 1930
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W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show. |
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08 Dec 1930
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Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway, New York City
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11 Dec 1930
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Bank of the United States opens in New York NY
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12 Dec 1930
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Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
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12 Dec 1930
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Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
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12 Dec 1930
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Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book, when a ball bounces into stands now a double, not a homerun
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12 Dec 1930
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Start of the 1st Australia vs West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
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13 Dec 1930
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George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
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13 Dec 1930
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Theodore Steeg forms French government
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14 Dec 1930
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New York Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
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15 Dec 1930
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Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, West Indies, lbw)
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16 Dec 1930
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Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana. |
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16 Dec 1930
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Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award
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18 Dec 1930
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Bradman scores 258 New South Wales vs South Australia, 289 minutes, 37 fours
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19 Dec 1930
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James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
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20 Dec 1930
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Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 minutes West Indies vs Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
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22 Dec 1930
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6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
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23 Dec 1930
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Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York NY
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23 Dec 1930
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Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
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24 Dec 1930
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Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
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24 Dec 1930
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Federico Garc
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25 Dec 1930
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1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
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25 Dec 1930
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Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York opens
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25 Dec 1930
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1st US bobsled run open to the public (Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid NY)
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25 Dec 1930
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Slinger Nitschke scores 142 South Africa vs Queensland at Adelaide before 5,422
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25 Dec 1930
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Tasmania all out 280, West Indies 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
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29 Dec 1930
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. |
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29 Dec 1930
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Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam MN, to New Orleans LA
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31 Dec 1930
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Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
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31 Dec 1930
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US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930
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