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CHICAGO, Nov. 4.--James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, and an outand-out wet, won in a landslide over Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican and "provisionally wet," in today's election of a Senator from Illinois.
Dems gain seats, but Repubs retain control of both Houses
Roosevelt carries N Y C by 556,868 votes over Tuttle
Entire ticket elected
W E Brock, Dem, elected Sen
1930Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016)[†]
Wim Bleijenberg was a Dutch international football player, who played for FC Wageningen, Rigtersbleek, AFC Ajax, Blauw-Wit Amsterdam, Go Ahead Eagles and AGOVV Apeldoorn during his career.
1930Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (died 2015)[†]
Hans Mommsen was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator. Descended from Nobel Prize-winning historian Theodor Mommsen, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
1930Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)[†]
Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (thiamine). Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins.
1930Luigi Facta, Italian politician, journalist and Prime Minister of Italy (born 1861)[†]
Luigi Facta was an Italian politician, lawyer and journalist and the last prime minister of Italy before the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.