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September 7, 1930

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REVOLUTION TRIUMPHS IN ARGENTINA; JUNTA ASSUMES POWER AS TROOPS OUST IRIGOYEN'S REGIME AND ARREST HIM; WHITE FLAG IS HOISTED ON GOVERNMENT HOUSE Huge Crowd Joins Soldiers in the Attack on Seat of Executive Power--10 Dead, 70 Wounded in Battle With Loyal Palace Guards. GENERAL URIBURU IS NEW GOVERNMENT CHIEF, Killing of Student in Buenos Aires Parade Aroused Nation--Navy Supports Army, Announcing That Ships Will Not Fire on the Rebels. Casualties Estimated at Eighty Loyal Troops Are Overwhelmed. Killing of Student Stirs People. Police Refuse to Fire on Crowd.

By From a Special Correspondent of The New York Times. By Wireless Telephone

Martinez Govt ousted

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DEMOCRATIC GAINS PREDICTED IN MAINE; Some Republicans Put Majority at 10,000, to 15,000, as Against 82,000 in 1928. VOTERS APPEAR APATHETIC Registration Is Light Though Many National Leaders Have Taken Part in the Campaign. Democratic Victory Predicted. New Yorker Has Aided. Defection Has Been Manifest. DEMOCRATIC GAINS PREDICTED IN MAINE Hoover Policies Criticized.

By Special to The New York Times

PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 6.--A smaller total vote than usual even in an off year, is looked for in Monday's election where Governor William ...

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LEADERS WHO FOLLOW.

By Unknown Author

There seems to be an increasing tendency among our parties and politicians to announce that they hald their deepest convictions subject to a popular vote. This is most marked, of course, in the matter of prohibition.

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Notable Births

Baudouin of Belgium

1930Baudouin of Belgium (died 1993)[†]

Baudouin was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo, before it became independent in 1960 and became the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Sonny Rollins

1930Sonny Rollins, American saxophonist and composer[†]

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins is a retired American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

S. Sivanayagam

1930S. Sivanayagam, Sri Lankan journalist and author (died 2010)[†]

Subramaniam Sivanayagam was a Sri Lankan journalist, author and editor of the Saturday Review, Tamil Nation and Hot Spring.

Yuan Longping

1930Yuan Longping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in hybrid rice (died 2021)[†]

Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture. For his contributions, Yuan is known as the "Father of Hybrid Rice". Yuan was bestowed the Medal of the Republic, the highest honorary medal of the People's Republic of China, in September 2019.