French aviators Dieudonné Costes and Maurice Bellonte completed the first nonstop flight from Paris to New York. The flight took 37 hours 18 minutes and 30 seconds.[3]
José Félix Uriburu became President of Argentina when a military junta seized the government.[8]
The editor of the German newspaper Morgenpost was fined and sentenced to three months in prison for libeling ex-kaiser Wilhelm II. The paper had published a statement claiming that the kaiser enriched himself before the war by investing his private fortune in armament firms which gained monopolies through his influence.[9]
InTrieste, Italy, four Yugoslavs were executed at dawn by firing squad for plotting to assassinate Benito Mussolini, less than a day after being found guilty.[10][11]
Students rioted in Ljubljana during demonstrations protesting the execution of four Yugoslavs the previous day. News of the executions had been censored by the Yugoslavian government to prevent anti-Italian violence but word still spread through private sources.[11]
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King Baudouin I, reigning monarch of Belgium from 1951 until his death; at Stuyvenberg Castle, Laeken (d. 1993)
Sonny Rollins, U.S. jazz saxophonist, in New York City
Monday, September 8, 1930
[edit]Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake portraying Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead in multiple films based on the comic strip
The Indian government issued a report on its negotiations with leaders of the civil disobedience movement, describing their demands as "unreasonable and impracticable".[13]
A letter from New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to Senator Robert F. Wagner was publicized in which Roosevelt came out in favor of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment, writing that it had led to corruption and hypocrisy and had flooded the country with untaxed and illicit liquor.[14]
The Berlin city council met for the first time since summer recess, but broke up in tumult after the Communists and Nazis introduced a motion demanding that the council dissolve. The motion was defeated.[22]
The Chinese and British governments reached an agreement by which the British would finish construction of the CantontoHankou railway begun in 1904 by Americans but never completed. Britain would use its share of the Boxer Indemnity to pay for construction.[23]
Albert Einstein told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that there was "no reason for despair" over the Nazi Party's strong showing in Sunday's elections, because it was "only a symptom, not necessarily of anti-Jewish hatred but of momentary resentment caused by economic misery and unemployment within the ranks of misguided German youth. I hope that the momentary fever and wave will rapidly fall."[26]
Benito Mussolini refuted rumors that he was suffering from ill health by riding around on a horse for half an hour in front of journalists.[30]
George Sisler of the Boston Braves played in the final game of his major league career, going 0-for-1 in a pinch hitting appearance in the eighth inning against the Chicago Cubs.[31][32] Sisler finished his career with a lofty .340 batting average.[33]
Died:Henry Phipps, Jr., 90, American steel industrialist and philanthropist
Three Reichswehr artillery officers went on trial before the Leipzig Supreme Court in Germany, charged with high treason for conspiring with the Nazis to overthrow the government.[34]
The Soviet Union had 48 officials shot as "unreconcilable enemies of the Soviet government and active counter-revolutionists." They were convicted of conspiring to create a food panic in the country to prepare the ground for the overthrow of the government.[35]
Adolf Hitler took the stand in the Leipzig Supreme Court trial of three officers accused of high treason. He testified that the Nazis would only take power through constitutional means, explaining, "Another two or three elections and the National Socialist movement will have the majority in the Reichstag, and then we will make the national revolution." When pressed under further questioning Hitler explained that he was committed to legality but would eliminate or replace the Weimar Constitution when he came to power, and would set up state tribunals that would be "empowered to pass sentences by law on those responsible for the misfortunes of our nation. Possibly, then, quite a few heads will roll legally."[37]
Bobby Jones completed the first Grand Slam in golf history by winning the U.S. Amateur Championship, after having won the Amateur Championship in Scotland, the Open in England, and the U.S. Open. [40] The Masters Tournament would not begin until 1934.
Fifty thousand German Communists staged a massive anti-Hitler protest in Berlin.[41]
Bill Terry
Bill Terry of the New York Giants went 0-for-3 during a 7–6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies to finish the season with a .401 batting average (based on 254 hits in 633 times at bat, or getting a hit more than 40% of the time).[42] Terry remains the last National League player to bat .400.[43]
Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs batted in two runs during a 13–11 victory over the Cincinnati Reds, giving him a total of 191 RBIs for the year – a single-season major league record that still stands. He also finished the season with 56 home runs, a National League record that stood until 1998.[44][45]
National Guardsmen in Huntsville, Alabama, attacked a crowd around the Madison County jail with tear gas bombs. The mob was trying to storm the jail where an African-American man was being held in connection with the murder of a businessman.[46]
Students at the University of Havana held a demonstration against president Gerardo Machado. Police blocked the streets and during the ensuing clashes, a student leader by the name of Rafael Trejo was killed. Trejo was later held up to be a martyr and a hero in Cuban history.[47]
"Public enemy" Jake Guzik was arrested by federal operatives in Chicago on charges of tax fraud. He was released after posting a $50,000 cash bond.[48]
The "All-Talking All Color" musical comedy film Whoopee! starring Eddie Cantor was released.
^Burns, Edward (September 23, 1930). "Wilson Clouts 53rd Homer; Cubs Win, 6 to 2". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 17.
^Chuck, Bill; Kaplan, Jim (2008). Walkoffs, Last Licks and Final Outs: Baseball's Grand (and Not-so-grand) Finales. ACTA Sports. p. 174. ISBN978-0-87946-342-7.
^"German Treason Trial is Opened; Hitler Accused". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 24, 1930. p. 13.
^"Russia Executes 48 in Plot to Starve Nation". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 25, 1930. p. 3.
