Page 4: Historical Events In 1930

Mar 19   Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi.   

Mar 20   Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph.   

Mar 22   Stephen Sondheim, American songwriter is born   

Mar 23   US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson.   

Mar 23   US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner   

Mar 24   1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC).   

Mar 24   Planet Pluto named   

Mar 24   Steve McQueen, American actor is born.   

Mar 26   Congress appropriates $50000 for Inter-American highway   

Mar 27   1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea   

Mar 27   The inaugural US radio broadcast from a ship at sea.   

Mar 28   1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)   

Mar 28   Constantinople and Angora changes names to Istanbul and Ankara.   

Mar 29   Anton Bettelheim, writer, dies.   

Mar 29   Donny Conn, rocker (Playmates).   

Mar 29   Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.   

Mar 30   Babberich-H soccer team forms   

Mar 31   The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.   

Apr 01   "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America.   

Apr 01   Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92   

Apr 01   Zawditu inaugural reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies.   

Apr 02   1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda.   

Apr 02   Girolamo Arriego, composer.   

Apr 02   NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda for the inaugural time   

Apr 03   Helmut Kohl, German chancellor (reunited Germany) is born.   

Apr 03   Ras Tafari is recorded as becoming Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia).   

Apr 03   Stanley Cup Montr‚al Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games.   

Apr 04   Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century   

Apr 04   Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149).   

Apr 04   Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies   

Apr 05   England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325   

Apr 05   England out for 849 vs West Indies Kingston, Sandham out for 325.   

Apr 06   1st transcontinental glider tow completed.   

Apr 06   inaugural transcontinental glider tow completed.   

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Jan 01   Gaafar muhammad nimeiry: Premier/president (sudan)   

Jan 01   Ty hardin: Nyc, actor (riptide, bronco) [or jun 1]   

Jan 01   Werner heiden: Composer   

Jan 02   Julius larosa: Bkln ny, singer (fired by arthur godfrey on the air)   

Jan 03   Eddie egan: Bronx nyc, actor (joe forrester)   

Jan 03   Robert loggia: Staten island, actor (officer & a gentleman, the cat)   

Jan 03   Marcel dubé: Quebec playwright   

Jan 04   Don shula: Winningest nfl coach (miami dolphins)   

Jan 09   Edward w buck: Dutch/us editor (la   

Jan 13   C-e auguste rateau: French inventor (r-steam turbine),   

Jan 27   Jean hure: Composer,   

Jan 28   Clarence skelton wimble: Cricket (score pair in test for s af),   

Feb 06   Eva strittmatter: Writer,   

Feb 22   Godfried ce van daalen: Dutch general/governor of atjeh,   

Feb 23   Horst wessel: German nazi lyricist (fahne hoch),    

Feb 24   Jacobus van looy: Dutch writer/painter (night cactus),