December 1930 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1930 Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
• 02 Dec 1930 Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
• 03 Dec 1930 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley, Belgium).
• 04 Dec 1930 French government of AndrT Tardieu falls.
• 06 Dec 1930 Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
• 07 Dec 1930 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing.
• 08 Dec 1930 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway, New York City, New York.
• 11 Dec 1930 Bank of the United States opens in New York City, New York.
• 12 Dec 1930 Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
• 13 Dec 1930 Theodore Steeg forms French government.
• 14 Dec 1930 New York Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game.
• 16 Dec 1930 Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award.
• 19 Dec 1930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP.
• 23 Dec 1930 Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
• 24 Dec 1930 Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
• 25 Dec 1930 1st US bobsled run open to public
• 28 Dec 1930 Mahatma Gandhi leaves India enroute to Britain for freedom negotiations.
• 29 Dec 1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minnesota, to New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 31 Dec 1930 Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages

Famous Birthday

• Jean Ferrat

  French singer-songwriter and poet.

• Jean-Luc Godard

  French film director, screenwriter, critic and producer, who has also worked as an actor.

• Jean-Louis Trintignant

  French actor and director, a film and TV star who made his debut in 1956.

• Maximilian Schell

  Famous actor with international career, theater author.

• Jean-Charles Cavaillé
• Odetta

  American singer known for vocal power and clarity with a rich intensity of style.

• Antoine Vitez

  French theater producer and actor; the founder of the experimental Theatre des Quartier d’Ivry in 1972.

• Nicole Questiaux

  Nantes Politician.

• Edna O'Brien

  Irish-American writer, a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and TV scriptwriter.

• Ronnie Corbett

  Scottish comedian, best known for his work with Ronnie Barker (b.

• Bob Guccione

  American-British publisher, the founder and publisher of "Penthouse" in the U.K.

• Roberto Capucci

  Italian fashion designer, noted for his creations.

• Jacques David (bishop)
• Silvio Santos

  Brazilian TV show host and entrepreneur.

• Mic Delinx
• Ed Allen
• Jim Hall

  American guitarist and composer (d. 2013).

• Emily McLaughlin
• Larry Kert

  American actor and singer, best known for his performance in "West Side Story.

• Tom Boardman Jr
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Famous Deaths

• Johannes H Been

  Brielle archivist, dies at 71.

• Oskar Nedbal

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Harvey Worthington Loomis

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Friedrich von Bernhardi

  German war theorist/historian, dies at age 81.

• Eduard David

  German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at age 67.

• Herman Lamm

  German-born American bank robber (Born 1890).

• Peter Warlock

  British composer and music critic.

• Fritz Pregl

  Slovenian chemist and physician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930).

• Rube Foster

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1930).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - I Got Rhythm
2. Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees - You're Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?)
3. Wayne King & His Orchestra - The Waltz You Saved for Me
4. Nick Lucas - You're Driving me Crazy
5. Libby Holman - Something to Remember You By