The following events occurred in July 1930:
Tuesday, July 1, 1930
*At midnight, the Rhineland began month-long liberation celebrations with ringing bells, music and fireworks.
*In
Chicago
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Jack Zuta
John U. Zuta (February 15, 1888 – August 1, 1930) was an accountant and political " fixer" for the Chicago Outfit and the North Side Gang.
Early life
Zuta (also spelled as "Zoota") was born on February 18, 1888, in the Russian Empire to a pe ...
was questioned by police for his alleged involvement with the murder of journalist
Jake Lingle. He was released that night and allowed a police escort when a rival gang drove up and fired on the policeman's car in an attempt to assassinate Zuta. A streetcar driver was killed and a night watchman wounded in the ensuing shootout on
State Street State Street may refer to:
Streets and locations
*State Street (Chicago), Illinois
* State Street (Portland, Maine)
*State Street (Boston), Massachusetts
*State Street (Ann Arbor), Michigan
* State Street (Albany), New York
*State Street (Manhatta ...
.
*Born:
Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-born filmmaker, in
Aleppo
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(d. 2005)
Wednesday, July 2, 1930
*Italy imposed a new automobile tariff aimed at American imports.
*Born:
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Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem (2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. H ...
, 47th
President of Argentina
The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under Constitution of Ar ...
1989 to 1999; in
(d. 2021)
**
Mamie Redman, U.S. baseball player, catcher in the AAGPBL; in
Waupun, Wisconsin
Waupun is a city in Dodge County, Wisconsin, Dodge and Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Fond du Lac counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 11,344 at the 2020 census. Of this, 7,795 were in Dodge County, and 3,549 were in Fond du ...
(d. 2020)
**
Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and educator. For six decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz.
Biography Early life
Jamal was born Fr ...
, American jazz pianist; as Frederick Russell Jones, in
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
(d. 2023)
Thursday, July 3, 1930
*
Otto Strasser formed the ''Kampfgemeinschaft Revolutionärer Nationalsozialisten'' (Combat League of Revolutionary National Socialists), more commonly known as the
Black Front, as a left-wing splinter faction of the
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
after his expulsion from that organization.
* The
First Eastern Women's Congress First Eastern Women's Congress, also known as First General Congress of Oriental Women and First Oriental Women's Congress was an international women's conference which took place in Damascus in Syria between 3 July and 10 July 1930. The conference ...
takes place in Damascus, Syria.
*Born:
Carlos Kleiber
Carlos Luis Bonifacio Kleiber (3 July 1930 – 13 July 2004) was an Austrian conductor who is widely regarded as among the greatest conductors of all time.
Early life
Kleiber was born as Karl Ludwig Bonifacius Kleiber in Berlin in 1930, the ...
, German-born Austrian conductor, in Berlin (d. 2004)
Friday, July 4, 1930
*
Helen Wills Moody
Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis player. She won 31 Grand Slam tournament titles (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) du ...
defeated
Elizabeth Ryan
Elizabeth Montague Ryan (February 5, 1892 – July 6, 1979) was an American tennis player who was born in Anaheim, California, but lived most of her adult life in the United Kingdom. Ryan won 26 Grand Slam titles, 19 in women's doubles and mix ...
at the
Ladies' Singles Final at
Wimbledon
Wimbledon most often refers to:
* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
Wimbledon may also refer to:
Places London
* ...
.
*Thirteen people were killed in a chemical factory explosion in
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng ...
.
*Brothers John and Kenneth Hunter established a new
flight endurance record of 553 hours, 41 minutes and 30 seconds, flying a
Stinson SM-1 Detroiter
The Stinson Detroiter was a six-seat cabin airliner for passengers or freight designed and built by the Stinson Aircraft Syndicate, later the ''Stinson Aircraft Corporation''. Two distinct designs used the Detroiter name, a biplane and a monopla ...
over the vicinity of
Chicago
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. The old record, set a year earlier, was bested by 133 hours.
*The state parliament of
Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and larg ...
tried to pass a motion of censure against Interior Minister
Wilhelm Frick of the
Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
, but fell two votes short of the 27 required to force his resignation. Frick had been accused of trying to "Nazify" the Thuringian police force.
*Born:
**
Frunzik Mkrtchyan, celebrated Soviet Armenian stage and film actor; in
Leninakan
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
,
Armenian SSR
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...
(d. 1993)
**
George Steinbrenner, U.S. businessman and principal owner of the
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Amer ...
baseball team from 1973 until his death; in
Rocky River, Ohio
Rocky River is a city in western Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. A suburb of Cleveland, it is located along the shore of Lake Erie approximately west of downtown Cleveland. The city is named for the Rocky River that forms its eastern bo ...
(d. 2010)
Saturday, July 5, 1930
*
Bill Tilden
William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American tennis player. Tilden was the world No. 1 amateur for six consecutive years, from 1920 to 1925, and was ranked as the world No. 1 professional b ...
defeated
Wilmer Allison, Jr. in the
Gentlemen's Singles Final at
Wimbledon
Wimbledon most often refers to:
* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
Wimbledon may also refer to:
Places London
* ...
.
*Died:
**
Georges Berthoulat, 70, French politician,
senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
from
Seine-et-Oise, after surgery
**
Princess Marie Gasparine of Saxe-Altenburg, 85
Sunday, July 6, 1930
*Ten people were injured in clashes between police and protestors in the Indian city of
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
. The protesters were making a procession to
Yerwada Central Jail to pay homage to their jailed leader
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
.
*Born:
George Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey right wing with 21 seasons in the NHL, all for the Toronto Maple Leafs, enshrinee of the
Hockey Hall of Fame
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; in
Skead, Ontario (d. 2021)
Monday, July 7, 1930
*Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
died in the morning at his home in
Crowborough
Crowborough is a town and civil parish in East Sussex, England, in the Weald at the edge of Ashdown Forest in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Royal Tunbridge Wells and 33 miles (53 ...
. Doyle, the Scottish writer known for creating stories and novels featuring detective
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
, had made arrangements with his immediate family to contact them from the spirit world.
*More than 12,000 members of the
Lapua Movement marched on
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
demanding legislation against left-wing elements.
Tuesday, July 8, 1930
*King
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936.
Born duri ...
opened
India House in London.
*Died: Sir
Joseph Ward
Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, (26 April 1856 – 8 July 1930) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th prime minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930. He was a dominant figure in the Liberal and Unit ...
, 74,
Prime Minister of New Zealand
The prime minister of New Zealand ( mi, Te pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, took office on 26 October 2017.
The prime minister (inform ...
from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930
Wednesday, July 9, 1930
*A coal mine explosion killed 151 miners in the German town of
Hausdorf (now
Jugów
Jugów (german: Hausdorf) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowa Ruda, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.
It lies approximately north of Nowa Ruda, ...
in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
).
*Born:
**
Louis "Buddy" Bregman, American jazz band leader; in
Chicago
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(d. 2017)
**
Patricia Newcomb
Margot Patricia "Pat" Newcomb Wigan (born July 9, 1930) is an American publicist and producer. After working for Pierre Salinger, she was hired by the agency of Arthur P. Jacobs and briefly represented Marilyn Monroe in 1956. In 1960, she became M ...
, American film publicist known primarily for representing
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1 June 1926 4 August 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic " blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as wel ...
; in
Washington, D.C.
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Thursday, July 10, 1930
*France pledged to suspend the construction of warships for six months pending the possibility of a new naval conference with Italy.
Friday, July 11, 1930
*Germany's highest court struck down, as unconstitutional, laws in the state of Thuringia that required the recital of pro-German prayers that had been devised by Thuringian interior minister Wilhelm Frick and included lines such as, "I believe that thou wilt punish the betrayal of Germany and bless the actions of those who seek to free the Fatherland."
*Born:
Harold Bloom, American literary critic, in
the Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
(d. 2019)
Saturday, July 12, 1930
*A streetcar accident in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
killed 56 people near
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
, after the vehicle's operator failed to notice that the
moveable bridge for the tracks was up, to allow a crossing of the
Río de la Plata. The car plunged into the river and its occupants drowned.
*
Bobby Jones won his second straight and record-tying fourth
U.S. Open golf title.
Sunday, July 13, 1930
*The inaugural
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...
tournament began in
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
.
*Almost 6,000
spiritualists gathered in the
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity which receives no govern ...
for a memorial to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, attended by his relatives. The medium
Estelle Roberts
Estelle Roberts (10 May 1889 – 30 May 1970) was a British Spiritualist medium.
Life and career
Roberts is regarded by the British Spiritualist Movement as one of its finest exponents of mediumship in the 20th Century but sceptics have not been ...
relayed a private message to Doyle's widow which she affirmed to be genuine.
Monday, July 14, 1930
*Italy agreed to join France in a six-month moratorium on warship construction.
*Born:
Polly Bergen
Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin; July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014) was an American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur.
She won an Emmy Award in 1958 for her performance as Helen Morgan in ''The Helen Mo ...
, actress and singer, in
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Di ...
(d. 2014)
Tuesday, July 15, 1930
*Fifteen people were killed and 220 injured in rioting in the Egyptian city of
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...
instigated by supporters of the
Wafd Party.
*Jobless numbers in Great Britain topped 1.9 million.
*Born:
**
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed t ...
, French philosopher known for originating the semiotic analysis method of
deconstruction
The term deconstruction refers to approaches to understanding the relationship between text and meaning. It was introduced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who defined it as a turn away from Platonism's ideas of "true" forms and essences w ...
, in
El Biar
El Biar (from Arabic "الأبيار", meaning "The Wells") is a suburb of Algiers, Algeria. It is located in the administrative constituency of Bouzaréah in the Algiers Province. As of the 1998 census, it has a population of 52,582 inhabitant ...
,
French Algeria
French Algeria (french: Alger to 1839, then afterwards; unofficially , ar, الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of French colonisation of Algeria. French rule in the region began in 1830 with the ...
(d. 2004)
**
Betty Wagoner
Betty Ann Wagoner (July 15, 1930 – May 9, 2006) was an American baseball player. She was a right fielder and pitcher who played from 1948 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 110 lb., she batt ...
, American baseball pitcher for the
AAGPBL
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the Uni ...
; in
Lebanon, Missouri (d. 2006)
*Died:
**
Leopold Auer, 85, Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer
**
Rudolph Schildkraut
Rudolph Schildkraut (27 April 1862 – 15 July 1930) was an Austrian film and theatre actor.
Life and career
Schildkraut was born in Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire to a Jewish family. His parents ran a hotel. He grew up in Brăila, Rom ...
, 68, Austrian actor
Wednesday, July 16, 1930
*The
Reichstag defeated Chancellor
Heinrich Brüning's budget by a vote of 256–193, but President
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (; abbreviated ; 2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany fro ...
invoked
Article 48
Article 48 of the constitution of the Weimar Republic of Germany (1919–1933) allowed the President, under certain circumstances, to take emergency measures without the prior consent of the '' Reichstag''. This power was understood to include t ...
and forced its passage anyway.
Thursday, July 17, 1930
*
Al Singer
Al "The Bronx Beauty" Singer (September 6, 1909 – April 20, 1961) was an American Boxing, boxer who won the world lightweight championship in 1930.
Early life and career
Singer was born in a tenement on Broome Street, part of the Jewish sectio ...
knocked out
Sammy Mandell
Sammy Mandell (a.k.a. Samuel Mandella; February 5, 1904 – November 7, 1967) was an American World lightweight boxing champion from 1926-1930. Born in Rockford, Illinois, and named Salvatore Mandala, he was known as the "Rockford Sheik" due to h ...
in the first round at
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx, New York City. It is the home field of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, and New York City FC of Major League Soccer.
Opened in April 2009, the stadium replaced the origi ...
to win boxing's World Lightweight Title.
*British Labour MP
John Beckett seized the
ceremonial mace
A ceremonial mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal or wood, carried before a sovereign or other high officials in civic ceremonies by a mace-bearer, intended to represent the official's authority. The mace, as used today, derives from the or ...
and tried to leave the chamber with it as a protest against
Fenner Brockway
Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway (1 November 1888 – 28 April 1988) was a British socialist politician, humanist campaigner and anti-war activist.
Early life and career
Brockway was born to W. G. Brockway and Frances Elizabeth Abbey in ...
being suspended for trying to force a debate about India. Beckett was intercepted and the mace was retrieved by the
Serjeant-at-Arms
A serjeant-at-arms, or sergeant-at-arms, is an officer appointed by a deliberative body, usually a legislature, to keep order during its meetings. The word "serjeant" is derived from the Latin ''serviens'', which means "servant". Historically, s ...
, then Beckett was himself suspended from the House over the incident.
*
Bert Patenaude of the United States became the first player to achieve a
hat-trick
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...
in World Cup play, during a game against Paraguay. This feat went unnoticed until 2006 when research by FIFA concluded that one of Patenaude's three goals had been wrongly credited to teammate
Tom Florie
Thomas Florie (September 6, 1897 – April 26, 1966) was an American soccer forward. He played in both the first and second American Soccer Leagues, winning two National Challenge Cup titles. Florie was also a member of the United States men's ...
.
Friday, July 18, 1930
*The Reichstag, led by the
Social Democratic Party
The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology.
Active parties
For ...
, voted 236–221 to demand a revocation of Hindenburg's decrees of July 16. Hindenburg responded by dissolving the Reichstag and calling new elections for September 14, meaning that the Brüning government could use Article 48 to govern in the meantime without requiring parliamentary assent.
*The second
Challenge International de Tourisme, an international touring aircraft contest, began in Berlin.
Saturday, July 19, 1930
*At least 100 people were injured in a train accident in
.
*President Hindenburg began a "tour of triumph" in the liberated Rhineland. "The blackest days are over for our country", he told a gathering in
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
.
*Died:
Oku Yasukata, 83, Japanese general
Sunday, July 20, 1930
*
Louis Chiron of
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
won the
European Grand Prix
The European Grand Prix (also known as the Grand Prix of Europe) was a Formula One event that was introduced during the mid-1980s and was held every year from to , except in . During these years, the European Grand Prix was held in a countr ...
in Belgium.
Monday, July 21, 1930
*The U.S. Senate ratified the
London Naval Treaty
The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address is ...
, making the United States the first of the five signatories to do so.
*
Maxim Litvinov became the new
Foreign Affairs Minister In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...
of the Soviet Union after
Georgy Chicherin resigned for health reasons.
Tuesday, July 22, 1930
*Celebrations of the Rhineland's liberation were marred by tragedy after a pontoon bridge collapsed in
Koblenz
Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary.
Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...
, killing 38 people.
*Born:
Jeremy Lloyd, English actor and screenwriter; in
Danbury, Essex (d. 2014)
Wednesday, July 23, 1930
*The 6.5 magnitude
Irpinia earthquake in southern Italy killed 1,404 people.
*President Hindenburg attended a memorial service for the 38 victims of the Koblenz bridge tragedy at the town hall and then cancelled the remaining stops of his Rhineland tour.
*Died:
Glenn Curtiss, 52, American aviator who founded one of the first airplane manufacturing companies in the world, the
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909 – 1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York. After significant commercial success in its first decades ...
, died of complications from an emergency
appendectomy
An appendectomy, also termed appendicectomy, is a Surgery, surgical operation in which the vermiform appendix (a portion of the intestine) is removed. Appendectomy is normally performed as an urgent or emergency procedure to treat complicated acu ...
after being stricken with
appendicitis
Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. Symptoms commonly include right lower abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and decreased appetite. However, approximately 40% of people do not have these typical symptoms. Severe complications of a rup ...
while in a courtroom during the trial of a lawsuit. His death came slightly more than a year after the merger of his company and the
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Wright Aeronautical (1919–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Paterson, New Jersey. It was the successor corporation to Wright-Martin. It built aircraft and was a supplier of aircraft engines to other builders in the ...
(which had been founded by the Wright Brothers) to form the
Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
Thursday, July 24, 1930
*The British
House of Commons approved the London Naval Treaty.
Friday, July 25, 1930
*The
Philadelphia Athletics
The Philadelphia Athletics were a Major League Baseball team that played in Philadelphia from 1901 to 1954, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and became the Kansas City Athletics. Following another move in 1967, the team became the Oaklan ...
executed a
triple steal twice in the same game against the
Cleveland Indians
The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. Since , they have played at Progressive F ...
. This is the first and only time this feat has ever been accomplished in the history of major league baseball.
*Born:
**Maureen Forrester, Canadian operatic contralto; in Montreal (d. 2010)
**Murray Chapple, New Zealand national team Test cricketer; in Christchurch (d. 1985)
Saturday, July 26, 1930
*Germany's President Hindenburg used Article 48 to reissue the decrees that the Reichstag had voted to annul on July 18.
*Died:
**João Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque 52, Brazilian politician and Governor of the state of Paraíba, was assassinated. The state capital, formerly called "Parahyba do Norte", was renamed in his honor as João Pessoa, Paraíba
**Pavlos Karolidis, 81, Greek historian
Sunday, July 27, 1930
*André Leducq won the 1930 Tour de France, Tour de France.
*The German Democratic Party merged with the People's National Reich Association to form the German State Party.
*A tornado in Edirne, Turkey killed 20 people and destroyed thousands of homes.
Monday, July 28, 1930
*1930 Canadian federal election, Elections for the 245 seats of Canada's House of Commons were held, and the Liberal Party coalition of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King, Mackenzie King lost its majority, winning only 89 seats. The Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942), Conservative Party, led by R. B. Bennett, gained 44 seats for 135 overall and an outright majority.
*In the Chinese Civil War, the Communists overran and occupied Changsha.
*Born: Jean Roba, comics author, in Schaerbeek, Belgium (d. 2006)
*Died: Allvar Gullstrand, 68, Swedish ophthalmologist, optician and 1911 Nobel laureate
Tuesday, July 29, 1930
*The House of Lords passed the
London Naval Treaty
The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address is ...
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*Born: Paul Taylor (choreographer), Paul Taylor, choreographer, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2018)
Wednesday, July 30, 1930
*Uruguay national football team, Uruguay defeated Argentina national football team, Argentina 4–2 in the 1930 FIFA World Cup Final, FIFA World Cup Final at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo.
*Born: Gus Triandos, baseball player, in San Francisco, California (d. 2013)
*Died: Joan Gamper, 52, Swiss footballer and club president
Thursday, July 31, 1930
*The pulp character known as "The Shadow" first appeared, as the mysterious narrator (initially voiced by James LaCurto) of ''Street & Smith's Detective Story Hour'', a new program on CBS Radio.
*The Alfred Hitchcock-directed film ''Murder!'' was released.
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