WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO SEPTEMBER 1930
Find out what all happened July to September 1930

The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks. (16. August 1930)

The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time. (31. July 1930)

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios. (20. September 1930)

The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon. (16. August 1930)

The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. (29. August 1930)

Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again. (6. August 1930)

Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England. (11. July 1930)

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). (7. July 1930)

In cricket Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians. (12. September 1930)

Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. (6. September 1930)

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup. (30. July 1930)

3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. (8. September 1930)

The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. (7. August 1930)

Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur. (27. September 1930)

Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes. (9. August 1930)