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1930Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (died 2009)[†]
Charles Jerome Daly was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to two consecutive National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in 1989 and 1990—during the team's "Bad Boys" era—and the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team to the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
1930William H. Goetzmann, American historian and author (died 2010)[†]
William Harry Goetzmann was an American historian and emeritus professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Yale University as a graduate student and was friends with Tom Wolfe while there. His work on the American West won him the highest prizes for historians, the Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He has written and published extensively on American philosophy, American political history, and the American arts. An advocate for the importance of history as a public discussion, he has served in various capacities in television and film production, notably for PBS. He was most recently the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair Emeritus in History and American Studies. His last book published during his lifetime was Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought From Paine to Pragmatism (2009).
1930Sally Ann Howes, English-American singer and actress (died 2021)[†]
Sally Ann Howes was an English and American actress and singer. Her career on screen, stage and television spanned six decades. She is best known for the role of Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In 1963, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance in Brigadoon.
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The turning point of the World War was reached twelve years ago last Friday--on July 18, 1918--when ...
Plans have been made for the immediate erection of an apartment hotel estimated to cost $1,000,000 at Atlantic Beach, L.I.
The largest real estate assessment increase in the Borough of Queens for 1930 was in the fifth district beginning at Woodside Avenue, Northern Boulevard, Junction Avenue and Queens Boulevard. The section includes Jackson Heights and neighboring communities that are growing rapidly. The total tentative assessed valuation is $129,182,420.
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Hack Wilson's twenty-sixth home run of the season and his second in two days, made off Dazzy Vance in the sixth inning, and an error in the eighth, were the chief factors...
SEEN in perspective, the changes transforming the South today are but the variations or the effects of one change.
Census compilations just completed for Nassau County disclose that it registered a greater gain in population than any other section of the metropolitan area. Its residents increased from 126,120 to 302,468 since 1920, a gain of 139.8 per cent. This, in the opinion of Peter F. Colleran, president of Brady, Cryan Colleran, Inc., indicates that Nassau County is the fastest growing area in New York State.
James Butler's Questionnaire set at rest all doubts of his superiority over Gifford A. Cochran's Flying Heels when he raced him into defeat before 10,000 persons at Empire City yesterday and drew out to win the Yonkers Handicap by four lengths.
In the belief that one of Harlem's most pressing problems is its thousands of old-law tenements, the Harlem Board of Commerce yesterday launched a movement to induce the owners of these flats to bring them up to date.
Associates, C and H Greenhaus, charged with using mails to defraud
ITHACA, N.Y., July 19.--New York State's 20,000 4-H Club members are to hear greetings to club ...