What Happened in December 1930

Historical Events

Evergreen

Dec 3 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Evergreen" premieres in London

Dec 4 Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
Dec 6 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Balmy Beach win their 2nd and final title; defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6

Armour's 2nd Win

Dec 7 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Fresh Meadows CC: American based Scotsman Tommy Armour defeats Gene Sarazen 1 up in the final for the 2nd of his 3 major titles

Dec 8 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC

The New Yorkers

Dec 8 Cole Porter's musical "The New Yorkers" opens at B. S. Moss's Broadway Theatre, NYC; runs for 169 performances

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"

Immunologist and Pathologist Karl Landsteiner

Fischer Awarded Chemistry Nobel

Dec 10 German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin

Physicist and Nobel Laureate Hans Fischer

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 National Football League Championship: Green Bay Packers (10-3-1) repeat with best record in first past the post title
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

Writer and Civil Rights Activist James Weldon Johnson

Dec 20 Cricketer Learie Constantine scores 100 runs in 52 mins West Indies v Tasmania (10x4, 1x6, 1x5) [1]
Dec 22 Convention of Economic Rapprochement/Oslo Agreesments signed between some European countries in response to the Great Depression

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

Sukarno Sentenced To Four Years

Dec 24 Sukarno sentenced to four years in prison by Indonesian authorities in Bandung, Dutch East Indies

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

Events in 1930

Famous Birthdays

Dec 1 Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
Dec 1 Matt Monro [Terence Parsons], English pop singer ("Softly As I Leave You"), born in Shoreditch, London (d. 1985)
Dec 2 Gary Becker, American economist (Nobel 1992) and recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom 2007, born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania (d. 2014)

Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)

Dec 3 French director (Alphaville; Hail Mary; Breathless), born in Paris, France

Dec 4 Harvey Kuenn, American baseball utility (AL batting champion 1959; 10 × All-Star 1953–1960²; Detroit Tigers), born in West Allis, Wisconsin (d. 1988)
Dec 4 Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist and composer, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 2013)
Dec 4 Lorraine Chargin, American boxing promoter (Bobby Chacon, Tony "The Tiger" Lopez, Loreto Garza), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)
Dec 4 Paul-Heinz Dittrich, German composer, born in Gornsdorf, Germany (d. 2020)
Dec 4 Ronnie Corbett, British comedian (The Two Ronnies), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2016)
Dec 5 Brian Tobin, Australian tennis executive (President International Tennis Federation 1991-99; International Tennis HOF), born in Perth, Australia (d. 2024)
Dec 6 Wojciech Zabłocki, Polish fencer (4 x World C'ship gold team; Olympic silver team sabre 1956, 60; bronze 1964), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 2020)
Dec 7 Richard Felciano, American composer (In Celebration of Golden Rain), born in Santa Rosa, California
Dec 8 Alain Weber, French composer, born in Château-Thierry (d. 2019)
Dec 8 John Morressy, American sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane), born in Brooklyn, New York
Dec 8 Julian Critchley, British journalist and politician, born in Islington, London (d. 2000)

Maximilian Schell (1930-2014)

Dec 8 Swiss-Austrian actor and director (Odessa File, Julia), born in Vienna, Austria

Dec 9 Buck Henry [Henry Zuckerman], American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (Get Smart; The Graduate; The Owl and the Pussycat), actor (1st 10-time host of SNL; The Man Who Fell to Earth), and director (Heaven Can Wait), born in New York City (d. 2020) [1]
Dec 10 Clayton K Yeutter, American trade negotiator and Republican National chairman, born in Eustis, Nebraska (d. 2017)
Dec 11 Chus Lampreave [María Jesús Lampreave Pérez], Spanish actress (Volver, Belle Époque), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 2016)
Dec 11 Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor (A Man and A Woman; Z; Amour), born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France (d. 2022)
Dec 11 Leonard Friedman, British-Lithuanian violinist (Scottish Baroque Ensemble), born in London (d. 1994)
Dec 12 Bill Beutel, American journalist and anchor (ABC), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2006)
Dec 12 Friedrich Voss, German composer and pianist, born in Halberstadt, Germany
Dec 13 Robert Prosky, Polish-American actor and comedian (Christine, Thief), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2008)
Dec 15 Alimuddin, Pakistani cricket batsman (25 Tests, 2 x 100s, 7 x 50s; Rajputana, Karachi), born in Ajmer, India (d. 2012)
Dec 15 Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer (Girl with Green Eyes, Casualties of Peace), born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland
Dec 16 Bill Young, American politician (Congress, 1993-2013), born in Harmarville, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
Dec 17 Armin Mueller-Stahl, German painter, author and actor (Kafka, Music Box), born in Tilsit, Germany

Bob Guccione (1930-2010)

Dec 17 American publisher (Penthouse, Omni), born in Brooklyn, New York

Dec 17 Julia Meade [Kunz], American actress and TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
Dec 17 Makoto Moroi, Jpansese composer (Yamauba; The Vision of Cain), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 2013)
Dec 18 Bill "Moose" Skowron, American baseball first baseman (8 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1956, 58, 61, 62 NY Yankees, 1963 LA Dodgers), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2012)
Dec 21 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches
Dec 22 Bill Jenkins, American engine builder and drag racer (Motorsports Hall of Fame of America), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
Dec 22 Larry Stevenson [Richard], American skateboard innovator (kicktail), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2012)
Dec 22 Per Bredesen, Norwegian soccer forward (18 caps; Ørn Horten FK, Lazio, Udinese, AC Milan, Bari, Messina), born in Horten, Norway (d. 2022)
Dec 23 Barbara Ruick, American actress (Carousel; Fearless Fagan), and singer (Jerry Colonna Show), born in Pasadena, California (d. 1974)
Dec 24 Arsenio Iglesias, Spanish soccer manager (Deportivo La Coruña, Hércules, Zaragoza, Elche, Real Madrid), born in Arteixo, Spain (d. 2023)
Dec 24 Julian Barry [Mendelsohn], American playwright and screenwriter (Lenny; Rhinoceros), born in New York City (d. 2023)
Dec 24 Robert Joffrey [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan], American dancer, teacher, and choreographer (co-founder of Joffrey Ballet), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1988)
Dec 25 Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and tennis coach (father of Andre Agassi), born in Salmas, Iran (d. 2021)
Dec 25 Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1986)
Dec 26 Donald Moffat, British actor (Kent-Logan's Run), born in Plymouth, Devon (d. 2018)
Dec 26 Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter, born in Vaucresson, France (d. 2010)
Dec 26 Sayed Mutawli imam ad-Darsh, scholar/broadcaster
Dec 27 Jacqueline Fontyn, Belgian pianist, contemporary classical composer (Vent d'Est for Accordion and Strings; Halo for Harp), and music educator (1963-90), born in Antwerp, Belgium
Dec 27 Meg Greenfield, American Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer (Washington Post; Newsweek), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1999)
Dec 27 Wilfrid Sheed, British writer (Boys of Winter; Transatlantic Blues; The House That George Built), born in London, England (d. 2011)
Dec 29 Glenn Reeves, American rockabilly singer-songwriter (co-wrote "Heartbreak Hotel"), and radio deejay, born in Shamrock, Texas (d. 1998)
Dec 29 Willy Giefer, German composer (Everything That Breathes), born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 2020)
Dec 30 Jerome Theisen, American Abbot Primate of the Benedictine order of monks, born in Loyal, Wisconsin (d. 1995)
Dec 30 Orville "Red" Rhodes, American session pedal steel guitarist, born in Alton, Illinois (d. 1995)
Dec 30 Paul Bowles, American writer (The Sheltering Sky), translator, and composer, born in Jamaica, Queens, New York (d. 1999)
Dec 31 Odetta [Holmes], American folk singer (Sanctuary), actress and civil rights activist, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2008)

Born in 1930

Famous Weddings

Pablo Neruda

Dec 6 Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia

Famous Deaths

Dec 9 Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
Dec 9 Rube Foster, American Baseball HOF manager and executive (Negro National League pennant 1920–22, 26; Chicago American Giants), dies from insanity at 51
Dec 11 Friedrich von Bernhardi, German general and military historian (Germany & the Next War), dies at 80
Dec 13 Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
Dec 17 Peter Warlock [Philip Heseltine], British composer, dies of a probable suicide at 36

Clarence Kummer (1899-1930)

Dec 18 American Racing HOF jockey (Preakness Stakes 1920, 25; Belmont Stakes 1920, 28; US Champion Jockey by earnings 1920), dies from pneumonia at 31

Dec 19 Johnny Douglas, English cricket all-rounder, captain (23 Tests, 1 x 100, 45 wickets; Essex CCC) and boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1908), dies by drowning at 48
Dec 23 Johannes H. Been, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
Dec 24 Eduard David, German politician (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
Dec 24 Oskar Nedbal, Czech composer, dies at 56
Dec 25 Harvey Worthington Loomis, American composer (Lyrics of the Red Man), dies at 65
Dec 27 William Courtleigh, Canadian actor (The Birth of Character, Ashes, The Nightingale), dies at 63

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