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July 30, 1930: Uruguay wins the inaugural FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina 4 to 2 for the world championship (pictured: Uruguay's Héctor Castro scoring the final goal against Argentina's Juan Botasso)

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, Jack Zuta 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.
  • Born: Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-born filmmaker, in Aleppo (d. 2005)

Wednesday, July 2, 1930

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 after his expulsion from that organization.
  • The First Eastern Women's Congress takes place in Damascus, Syria.
  • Born: Carlos Kleiber, German-born Austrian conductor, in Berlin (d. 2004)

Friday, July 4, 1930

Helen Wills Moody

Saturday, July 5, 1930

Bill Tilden

Sunday, July 6, 1930

Monday, July 7, 1930

Doyle and his son in 1930
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in the morning at his home in Crowborough. Doyle, the Scottish writer known for creating stories and novels featuring detective Sherlock Holmes, 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 demanding legislation against left-wing elements.

Tuesday, July 8, 1930

Wednesday, July 9, 1930

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 (d. 2019)

Saturday, July 12, 1930

Sunday, July 13, 1930

Monday, July 14, 1930

Tuesday, July 15, 1930

Wednesday, July 16, 1930

Thursday, July 17, 1930

  • Al Singer knocked out Sammy Mandell in the first round at Yankee Stadium to win boxing's World Lightweight Title.
  • British Labour MP John Beckett seized the ceremonial mace and tried to leave the chamber with it as a protest against Fenner Brockway being suspended for trying to force a debate about India. Beckett was intercepted and the mace was retrieved by the Serjeant-at-Arms, 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 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.

Friday, July 18, 1930

  • The Reichstag, led by the Social Democratic Party, 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 Elizabeth, New Jersey.
  • 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.
  • Died: Oku Yasukata, 83, Japanese general

Sunday, July 20, 1930

Monday, July 21, 1930

Litvinov

Tuesday, July 22, 1930

  • Celebrations of the Rhineland's liberation were marred by tragedy after a pontoon bridge collapsed in Koblenz, killing 38 people.
  • Born: Jeremy Lloyd, English actor and screenwriter; in Danbury, Essex (d. 2014)

Wednesday, July 23, 1930

Devastation near Monte Vulture
  • 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.
Curtiss in 1924

Thursday, July 24, 1930

Friday, July 25, 1930

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.
Governor Pessoa

Sunday, July 27, 1930

Monday, July 28, 1930

Outgoing Prime Minister King

Tuesday, July 29, 1930

Wednesday, July 30, 1930

Thursday, July 31, 1930

CBS promotional photo for its new program

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