of Peter the Lett) begins serialization in a French weekly magazine. Simenon will eventually write 75 novels (as well as 28 short stories) featuring the pipe-smoking Paris detective. July 28 – R. B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections, and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada. July 29 – British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada. July 30 Uruguay beats Argentina 4–2, to win the first Association football FIFA World Cup final at Estadio Centenario, in Montevideo. New York station W2XBS is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers. July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time in the United States. July – The First Eastern Women's Congress takes place in Damascus in Syria. August August – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form permanently in the Sunda Strait. August 7 – R. B. Bennett takes office as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada. August 12 – Turkish troops move into Persia, to fight Kurdish insurgents. August 16 – The first British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. August 27 – A military junta takes over in Peru. September September 3 – A huge hurricane in the Caribbean demolishes most of the city of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. September 6 – 1930 Argentine coup d'état: José Félix Uriburu carries out a military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina. September 8 – Scotch Tape, invented by Richard Gurley Drew, is sold by the 3M company in the United States for the first time. September 14 – German federal election, 1930: National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament, the Reichstag (18.3% of all the votes), making them the second largest party. September 17 – The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks. September 20 – The Eastern Catholic Rite Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed. September 27 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (6th government). October October – The Indochinese Communist Party is formed. October 1 – British rule of Weihaiwei ends, as it is returned to China. October 3 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded, following a split in the DSAP in Łódź. October 5 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India, on its maiden long-range flight, resulting in the loss of 48 lives. October 14 –