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Yrigoyen Deposed in Coup
Sep 6 Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
World Record 20,000m
Sep 13 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
- 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 international 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 (UK) in 15th America's Cup
Baseball Record
Sep 18 NY Yankee future Baseball HOF pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
Private Lives
Sep 24 Noël Coward's play "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 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC
Baseball Record
Sep 27 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
- Sep 27 US Amateur Championship Men's Golf, Merion GC: Bobby Jones scores an 8 & 7 win over Eugene V. Homans to win his 5th National Amateur title and clinch golf's Grand Slam
Lou Gehrig's Streak Ends
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 makes his debut on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
- Sep 29 NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
- Oct 5 British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais, France, 48 die
- Oct 5 Homecoming of the bodies of Swedish polar balloon expedition (1897) led by Salomon August Andrée
- Oct 9 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
Baseball History
Oct 10 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
Yankees Sign McCarthy
Oct 10 MLB New York Yankees announce signing former Chicago Cubs manager Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
Girl Crazy
Oct 14 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's musical "Girl Crazy" starring Ginger Rogers and featuring debut of Ethel Merman, opens at the Alvin Theater, NYC; runs for 272 performances
- 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, premieres on NBC radio
- Oct 20 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
- Oct 22 1st concert of BBC Symphony Orchestra, at Queen's Hall, under Adrian Boult
- Oct 22 Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930" premieres in NYC
- Oct 22 SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
Brazilian Coup d'état
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 indoor American football game Convention Hall in Atlantic City; a 7–0 victory by Washington & Jefferson over Lafayette, two Pennsylvania college teams
- Oct 25 Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) begins 1st scheduled US transcontinental air service between NYC and Los Angeles, California; 30 hour trip includes overnight stop in Kansas City, Missouri
Zolotoy Vyek
Oct 26 Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet "Zolotoy Vyek" premieres in Leningrad
Haile Selassie I
Nov 2 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethiopian Solmonic Dynasty
Bank of America
Nov 3 Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America
- Nov 3 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
- Nov 3 Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
3rd Academy Awards
Nov 5 3rd Academy Awards: "All Quiet on the Western Front", George Arliss (Disraeli) and Norma Shearer (The Divorcee) win
Einstein Refrigerator
Nov 11 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention of the Einstein refrigerator
- Nov 13 WA Drake's "Grand Hotel" premieres in NYC
Sweet & Low
Nov 17 Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
Smiles
Nov 18 Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope and Fred Astaire premieres in NYC
- 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)
Nation of Islam Forms
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 Ito, Japan records 690 earthquake shocks in 1 day
- Nov 25 Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP & Joe Cronin as AL MVP
Romantic
Nov 28 Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres
Evergreen
Dec 3 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London
Nobel Prize in Medicine
Dec 10 Austrian American Karl Landsteiner is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of human blood groups"
Fischer Awarded Chemistry Nobel
Dec 10 German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin
1st Science Nobel to Asia
Dec 10 Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on light scattering - first Asian and non-white to win a Science Nobel
- Dec 11 Bank of the United States closes in New York City
- Dec 12 Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book, ball bouncing into stands not a HR, now a double
- Dec 12 Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
- Dec 13 French government of André Tardieu falls for the second time
- 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
Bradman's 1st Test Wicket
Dec 15 Occasional leg-spin bowler Don Bradman takes his 1st of only 2 Test cricket wickets when he traps West Indian batsman Ivan Barrow lbw for 27 in the 1st Test in Adelaide
1st James E. Sullivan Award
Dec 16 Golfer Bobby Jones is the first to win the James E. Sullivan Award (best US amateur athlete)
James Weldon Johnson Resigns
Dec 19 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
Bette Davis Arrives in Hollywood
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 F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa" premieres in Madrid
- Dec 25 Mt, Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens; first American bobsled run open to public
- 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, Minnesota, to New Orleans
- Dec 31 Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
- Dec 31 US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930