The following events occurred inJuly 1930:

• At midnight, the Rhineland began month-long liberation celebrations with ringing bells, music and fireworks.^[1][2]
• InChicago,Jack Zuta was questioned by police for his alleged involvement with the murder of journalistJake 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 onState Street.^[3]
• Born:Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-born filmmaker, inAleppo (d. 2005)

• Italy imposed a new automobile tariff aimed at American imports.^[4]
• Born:
  • Carlos Menem, 47thPresident of Argentina 1989 to 1999; inAnillaco (d. 2021)
  • Mamie Redman, U.S. baseball player, catcher in the AAGPBL; inWaupun, Wisconsin (d. 2020)
  • Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist; as Frederick Russell Jones, inPittsburgh (d. 2023)

• Otto Strasser formed theKampfgemeinschaft Revolutionärer Nationalsozialisten (Combat League of Revolutionary National Socialists), more commonly known as theBlack Front, as a left-wing splinter faction of theNazi Party after his expulsion from that organization.^[5]
• TheFirst Eastern Women's Congress takes place in Damascus, Syria.
• Born:Carlos Kleiber, German-born Austrian conductor, in Berlin (d. 2004)

• Helen Wills Moody defeatedElizabeth Ryan at theLadies' Singles Final atWimbledon.^[6]
• Thirteen people were killed in a chemical factory explosion inYorkshire.^[7]
• Brothers John and Kenneth Hunter established a newflight endurance record of 553 hours, 41 minutes and 30 seconds, flying aStinson SM-1 Detroiter over the vicinity ofChicago. The old record, set a year earlier, was bested by 133 hours.^[8]
• The state parliament ofThuringia tried to pass a motion of censure against Interior MinisterWilhelm Frick of theNazi Party, 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.^[9]
• Born:
  • Frunzik Mkrtchyan, celebrated Soviet Armenian stage and film actor; inLeninakan,Armenian SSR (d. 1993)
  • George Steinbrenner, U.S. businessman and principal owner of theNew York Yankees baseball team from 1973 until his death; inRocky River, Ohio (d. 2010)

• Bill Tilden defeatedWilmer Allison, Jr. in theGentlemen's Singles Final atWimbledon.^[10]
• Died:
  • Georges Berthoulat, 70, French politician,senator fromSeine-et-Oise, after surgery^[11]
  • Princess Marie Gasparine of Saxe-Altenburg, 85

• Ten people were injured in clashes between police and protestors in the Indian city ofPune. The protesters were making a procession toYerwada Central Jail to pay homage to their jailed leaderMahatma Gandhi.^[12]
• Born:George Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey right wing with 21 seasons in the NHL, all for the Toronto Maple Leafs, enshrinee of theHockey Hall of Fame; inSkead, Ontario (d. 2021)

• SirArthur Conan Doyle died in the morning at his home inCrowborough. Doyle, the Scottish writer known for creating stories and novels featuring detectiveSherlock Holmes, had made arrangements with his immediate family to contact them from the spirit world.^[13]
• More than 12,000 members of theLapua Movement marched onHelsinki demanding legislation against left-wing elements.^[14]

• KingGeorge V openedIndia House in London.^[7]
• Died: SirJoseph Ward, 74,Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930

• A coal mine explosion killed 151 miners in the German town ofHausdorf (nowJugów inPoland).^[15]
• Born:
  • Louis "Buddy" Bregman, American jazz band leader; inChicago (d. 2017)
  • Patricia Newcomb, American film publicist known primarily for representingMarilyn Monroe; inWashington, D.C.

• France pledged to suspend the construction of warships for six months pending the possibility of a new naval conference with Italy.^[16]

• 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."^[17][18]
• Born:Harold Bloom, American literary critic, inthe Bronx (d. 2019)

• A streetcar accident inArgentina killed 56 people nearBuenos Aires, after the vehicle's operator failed to notice that themoveable bridge for the tracks was up, to allow a crossing of theRío de la Plata. The car plunged into the river and its occupants drowned.^[19]
• Bobby Jones won his second straight and record-tying fourthU.S. Open golf title.

• The inauguralFIFA World Cup tournament began inUruguay.^[7]
• Almost 6,000spiritualists gathered in theRoyal Albert Hall for a memorial to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, attended by his relatives. The mediumEstelle Roberts relayed a private message to Doyle's widow which she affirmed to be genuine.^[20][21]

• Italy agreed to join France in a six-month moratorium on warship construction.^[22]
• Born:Polly Bergen, actress and singer, inKnoxville, Tennessee (d. 2014)

• Fifteen people were killed and 220 injured in rioting in the Egyptian city ofAlexandria instigated by supporters of theWafd Party.^[23]
• Jobless numbers in Great Britain topped 1.9 million.^[24]
• Born:
  • Jacques Derrida, French philosopher known for originating the semiotic analysis method ofdeconstruction, inEl Biar,French Algeria (d. 2004)
  • Betty Wagoner, American baseball pitcher for theAAGPBL; inLebanon, Missouri (d. 2006)
• Died:
  • Leopold Auer, 85, Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer
  • Rudolph Schildkraut, 68, Austrian actor

• TheReichstag defeated ChancellorHeinrich Brüning's budget by a vote of 256–193, but PresidentPaul von Hindenburg invokedArticle 48 and forced its passage anyway.^[7][25]

• Al Singer knocked outSammy Mandell in the first round atYankee Stadium to win boxing's World Lightweight Title.^[26]
• British Labour MPJohn Beckett seized theceremonial mace and tried to leave the chamber with it as a protest againstFenner Brockway being suspended for trying to force a debate about India. Beckett was intercepted and the mace was retrieved by theSerjeant-at-Arms, then Beckett was himself suspended from the House over the incident.^[27][28]
• Bert Patenaude of the United States became the first player to achieve ahat-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 teammateTom Florie.^[29]
• Yugoslavia beat Bolivia 4-0 to knock Brazil out of the 1930 FIFA World Cup

• The Reichstag, led by theSocial 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.^[25][30]
• The secondChallenge International de Tourisme, an international touring aircraft contest, began in Berlin.

• At least 100 people were injured in a train accident inElizabeth, New Jersey.^[31]
• President Hindenburg began a "tour of triumph" in the liberated Rhineland. "The blackest days are over for our country", he told a gathering inSpeyer.^[32]
• Died:Oku Yasukata, 83, Japanese general

• Louis Chiron ofMonaco won theEuropean Grand Prix in Belgium.

• The U.S. Senate ratified theLondon Naval Treaty, making the United States the first of the five signatories to do so.^[33]
• Maxim Litvinov became the newForeign Affairs Minister of the Soviet Union afterGeorgy Chicherin resigned for health reasons.^[34]

• Celebrations of the Rhineland's liberation were marred by tragedy after a pontoon bridge collapsed inKoblenz, killing 38 people.^[35][36]
• Born:Jeremy Lloyd, English actor and screenwriter; inDanbury, Essex (d. 2014)

• The 6.5 magnitudeIrpinia earthquake in southern Italy killed 1,404 people.^[37]
• 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.^[36]

• Died:Glenn Curtiss, 52, American aviator who founded one of the first airplane manufacturing companies in the world, theCurtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, died of complications from an emergencyappendectomy after being stricken withappendicitis 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 theWright Aeronautical Corporation (which had been founded by the Wright Brothers) to form theCurtiss-Wright Corporation.

• The BritishHouse of Commons approved the London Naval Treaty.^[38]

• ThePhiladelphia Athletics executed atriple steal twice in the same game against theCleveland Indians. This is the first and only time this feat has ever been accomplished in the history of major league baseball.^[39]
• Born:
  • Maureen Forrester, Canadian operatic contralto; inMontreal (d. 2010)
  • Murray Chapple, New Zealand national team Test cricketer; inChristchurch (d. 1985)

• Germany's President Hindenburg used Article 48 to reissue the decrees that the Reichstag had voted to annul on July 18.^[25]

• Died:
  • João Pessoa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque 52, Brazilian politician and Governor of the state ofParaíba, was assassinated. The state capital, formerly called "Parahyba do Norte", was renamed in his honor asJoão Pessoa, Paraíba
  • Pavlos Karolidis, 81, Greek historian

• André Leducq won theTour de France.
• TheGerman Democratic Party merged with the People's National Reich Association to form theGerman State Party.^[40][41]
• A tornado inEdirne, Turkey killed 20 people and destroyed thousands of homes.^[42]

• Elections for the 245 seats of Canada's House of Commons were held, and the Liberal Party coalition of Prime MinisterMackenzie King lost its majority, winning only 89 seats. TheConservative Party, led byR. B. Bennett, gained 44 seats for 135 overall and an outright majority.^[43]
• In theChinese Civil War, the Communists overran and occupiedChangsha.^[44]
• Born:Jean Roba, comics author, inSchaerbeek, Belgium (d. 2006)
• Died:Allvar Gullstrand, 68, Swedish ophthalmologist, optician and 1911 Nobel laureate

• TheHouse of Lords passed theLondon Naval Treaty.^[45]
• Born:Paul Taylor, choreographer, inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2018)

• Uruguay defeatedArgentina 4–2 in theFIFA World Cup Final atEstadio Centenario inMontevideo.
• Born:Gus Triandos, baseball player, inSan Francisco, California (d. 2013)
• Died:Joan Gamper, 52, committed suicide, Swiss footballer and club president

• The pulp character known as "The Shadow" first appeared, as the mysterious narrator (initially voiced by James LaCurto) ofStreet & Smith's Detective Story Hour, a new program onCBS Radio.^[46][47]
• TheAlfred Hitchcock-directed filmMurder! was released.

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