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unusual facts about 1930–31 Manchester United F.C. season


1930–31 Manchester United F.C. season

The last game of the season, a 4–4 home draw with Middlesbrough, was watched by fewer than 4,000 spectators, as the Great Depression further affected attendances.


1897–98 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

On 11 September 1897, in their first game of the new season of the London League and also at their new ground, Thames beat Brentford F.C. 1–0.

1916–17 Blackpool F.C. season

Staff and recovering patients from the King's Lancashire Medical Convalescent Hospital (KLMCH) and staff from the Royal Army Medical Corps Depot (RAMC), both based at Squires Gate, provided players throughout the season.

1920–21 Burnley F.C. season

After the match, the Athletic News described Burnley as the best team in the country.

1923–24 Cardiff City F.C. season

In a goalless draw for most of the game, Cardiff were awarded a penalty and leading scorer Len Davies stepped up to take it, but missed and the game resulted in a goalless draw meaning Cardiff wouldn't win the title and would instead finish as runners-up.

1923–24 Nelson F.C. season

Six matches were played during the trip, two each against Real Madrid, Racing de Santander and Real Oviedo.

1930 in American television

This is a list of American television-related events in 1930.

1978–79 Wigan Athletic F.C. season

Peter Houghton was the team's top goalscorer with a total of 13 league goals (14 in all competitions).

1979–80 West Ham United F.C. season

Winning the Cup for the third time, West Ham manager John Lyall tactically outsmarted his Arsenal counterpart Terry Neill by paying a 4–5–1 system, stifling Arsenal's creative midfield that included future West Ham signing Liam Brady and the steely Brian Talbot.

1995–96 Blackpool F.C. season

They competed in the 24-team Division Two, then the third tier of English league football, finishing third, their highest league finish since the 1976-77 season.

2003–04 Luton Town F.C. season

January began with Luton beating Bradford City 2–1 in the FA Cup, ensuring the club reached the fourth round of the competition for the first time since the 1994–95 season.

2011 Lafayette Leopards football team

The Leopards' season opener at North Dakota State was the furthest west the team has ever traveled and was the squad's first contest played indoors since Lafayette faced Washington & Jefferson at the Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall in 1930.

Anna Balsamo

In 2003, Anna Balsamo was appointed Vice-President to the Florentine association Poets Chamber founded in 1930 by Domenico François on suggestion of Giovanni Papini.

Betty Compson

In 1930, she made a version of The Spoilers in which she played the role later portrayed by similar-looking Marlene Dietrich in the 1942 remake, while Gary Cooper played the part subsequently acted in the later film by John Wayne, perhaps the only time that Cooper and Wayne played precisely the same role.

C. H. Fernando

Major General C.H. Fernando, VSV, psc, SLAC (1930 - ) is a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Director of Operations, General Staff; GOC, 2 Division; Commander, Northern Command.

Carl Severing

He was Interior Minister of Prussia from 1920 to 1926, Minister of the Interior from 1928 to 1930 and Interior Minister of Prussia again from 1930 to 1932.

Convention on the Nationality of Married Women

The Conference for the Codification of International Law, held at The Hague in 1930, drew protests from international women's rights groups, yet the League declined to include legislation enforcing married women's nationality rights.

David Baron

Harold Pinter (1930–2008), English playwright, and actor under the stage name David Baron

Enamel sign

Florencio Molina Campos, the brilliant sketcher of the Alpargatas Almanacs of rural life (1930), collaborated in three Walt Disney films.

Ephraim Avigdor Speiser

He was field director of the Joint Excavation of the ASOR and the University Museum, 1930–1932, 1936–1937, undertaking excavations in Tepe Gawra and Tell Billa.

Ernest Wilson

Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930), English botanist, best known as E. H. Wilson

Eunice Rosen

Eunice Marya Rosen (born September 6, 1930) is an American bridge player.

Francisco Martín Borque

Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.

Frank Eyton

Frank Eyton (30 August 1894 – 11 November 1962) was an English popular music lyricist best known for co-writing the lyrics of Johnny Green's "Body and Soul" (1930) with Edward Heyman and Robert Sour.

Gaston Bachelard

He was a professor at Dijon from 1930 to 1940 and then became the inaugural chair in history and philosophy of the sciences at the Sorbonne.

Gérard de Cortanze

He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).

Ivor G. Balding

He moved to the United States in 1930 where he attended Cornell University.

James W. Dunbar

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress.

Lake Neale

Lake Neale was named after Frank Neale, one of the pilots of an aerial expedition to accurately survey the desert regions northwest of Alice Springs in 1930.

Lippisch Wien

This was followed by at least three world distance records, the last between the Wasserkuppe and Marktredwitz, a distance of 164 km (102 mi) flown on 24 August 1930.

Lovers of Paris

It was the second film Duvivier directed based on a novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, the first being Au Bonheur des Dames in 1930.

Luka Modrić

In the Champions League, Modrić participated and helped the club reach its first involment with the competition.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz (born June 20, 1930, in Falenty, Poland) is a Polish sculptor and fiber artist.

Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles

Expanded to the present 2 bd/2ba configuration, the interior now features a rustic antique heart pine interior,inspired by James Cagney's 1930 cabin in Lake Arrowhead.

North Carolina Highway 275

Established in 1930 as a new primary routing, from US 74/NC 20 (now NC 274), near Bessemer City, to NC 27, in Stanley; the route has changed little since.

Pat Aherne

His most notable on-screen appearances after 1930, were in Green Dolphin Street, Rocketship X-M and The Court Jester.

Peki'in Synagogue

In 1926 and 1930 two old stone tablets dating from the Second Temple period were uncovered at the synagogue.

Percy Stephen Cane

He owned and published the magazines My Garden Illustrated and Garden Design (1930), and was an admirer of Harold Peto's work.

Radoslav

Radoslav Katičić (born 1930), Croatian linguist, historian and culturologist

Ram Moav

Ram Moav (1930 - 1984) was an Israeli geneticist and science fiction writer.

Staveley Town railway station

Normal passenger traffic over the Doe Lea Branch ceased in 1930 and the route was severed by the closure of Rowthorn Tunnel near Hardwick Hall.

Stonewall Jackson Area Council

Camp Shenandoah was first established in 1930 near McGaheysville, Virginia and moved to its present site near Swoope, Virginia in 1950.

Tommy Bridges

Born in Gordonsville, Tennessee, Bridges attended the University of Tennessee, and after having a 20-strikeout game for the minor league Wheeling Stogies in 1929, he joined the Tigers in 1930, inducing Babe Ruth to ground out on his first major league pitch.

Victor Ash

Vic Ash (born 1930), English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist

Warren Spannaus

Warren R. Spannaus (born December 5, 1930) is an American politician from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and former Attorney General of Minnesota.

West Town, Peterborough

Also transferred were Thorpe Hall (maternity 1943–1970), The Gables (maternity 1947–1970), the Smallpox Hospital (1884–1970), Isolation Hospital (1901–1981), and St. John's Close (mentally ill c.1930–1971).

William Graham-Harrison

He took silk in 1930 and was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Durham in 1934, the Diocese of Truro in 1935, the Diocese of Gloucester in 1937, and the Diocese of Portsmouth in 1938.

William Winter

William J. Winter (born 1930), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh

Winifred E. Lefferts

She designed covers for Rex Stout's How Like a God (1929) and Seed on the Wind (1930), and for three of Stout's early Nero Wolfe novels — The League of Frightened Men (1935), The Rubber Band (1936) and The Red Box (1937).

Yegor Yakovlev

Yegor Vladimirovich Yakovlev (14 March 1930 - 18 September 2005) was one of the founders of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin's policy of glasnost, and one of the most respected Russian journalists.

Židikai Marija Pečkauskaitė secondary school

In 1989 the name of Marija Pečkauskaitė was given to school in order to honor famous author and educational Šatrijos Ragana who lived in Židikai from 1915 until her death in 1930.


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