1930
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Years: 1927 1928 1929 -
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Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s -
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Centuries: 19th century -
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21st century
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1930 in aviation\n
1930 in film\n
1930 in literature\n
1930 in music\n
1930 in sports\n
1930 in television\n
1930 state leaders\n
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Events
\n* January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).\n* February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto \n* February 18 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane. \n* March 12 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march protest march to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt In 1932\n* March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara\n* March 29 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.\n* March 31 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next forty years. \n* April 5 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt. \n* April 6 - Hostess Twinkies are invented. \n* April 22 - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. \n* April 28 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.\n* May 15 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois). \n* May 24 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). \n* June 17 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff into law. \n* June 17 - Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits. \n* July 7 - Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is started. \n* July 31 - The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time. \n* August 7 - Richard Bedford Bennett becomes Canada's eleventh prime minister.\n* August 9 - Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes. \n* October 5 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage. \n* October 24 - Brazil - Revolution of 1930.\n* November 2 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. \n* December 2 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
Year in topic
\n* 1930 in aviation\n*
1930 in film\n**
All Quiet on the Western Front\n*
1930 in literature\n*
1930 in music\n*
1930 in sports\n**
Uruguay wins
Football World Cup on home ground\n**
British Empire Games held in
Hamilton, Canada\n*
1930 in television\n**
May 22 - An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen. \n**
November - W9XAP in
Chicago broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, which was apparently the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, was ever televised\n**
December 7 - W1XAV in Boston broadcasts video from a
CBS radio program,
The Fox Trappers orchestra program. The broadcast also included the first television commercial (for I. J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show)\n**The
BBC begins regular television transmission
Births
\n* January 3 -
Robert Loggia, actor\n*
January 4 -
Don Shula,
American football coach\n*
January 10 -
Roy Edward Disney, film executive\n*
January 11 -
Rod Taylor,
Australian actor\n*
January 12 -
Tim Horton,
NHL player, Hockey Hall of Famer, founder of
Tim Hortons doughnut shops (d.
1974)\n*
January 12 - Glenn Yarborough, singer, songwriter\n*
January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress\n*
January 20 -
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut, second person to walk on
Earth's
Moon\n*
January 23 -
Derek Walcott, author\n*
January 25 - Dean Jones, actor\n*
January 30 -
Gene Hackman, actor\n*
February 3 -
Gillian Ayres, painter\n*
February 10 -
Robert Wagner, actor\n*
February 11 - Alevtina Koltschina Soviet skier.\n*
February 11 - C. H. Dearnley, organist.\n*
February 13 -
Ernst Fuchs, painter and graphic artist\n*
February 17 -
Ruth Barbara Rendell, writer\n*
February 27 -
Joanne Woodward, actress\n*
March 3 -
Heiner Geißler, politician\n*
March 6 -
Lorin Maazel,
opera conductor\n*
March 7 -
Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon\n*
March 19 -
Ornette Coleman, musician\n*
March 22 -
Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist\n*
March 22 -
Pat Robertson, televangelist\n*
March 24 -
Steve McQueen, film director and producer (d.
1980)\n*
March 26 -
Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court Justice.\n*
March 27 -
David Janssen, actor (d.
1980)\n*
March 30 -
John Astin, actor\n*
April 3 -
Helmut Kohl, German chancellor\n*
April 15 -
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir,
President of Iceland\n*
April 21 -
Silvana Mangano, actress (d.
1989)\n*
April 22 - Georges Schoeters, Belgian born
FLQ activist\n*
April 25 -
Paul Mazursky, director, writer\n*
May 10 -
Pat Summerall,
American football player, broadcaster\n*
May 15 -
Jasper Johns, painter\n*
May 19 -
Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (d.
1965)\n*
May 21 -
Malcolm Fraser, twenty-second
Prime Minister of Australia\n*
May 22 -
Harvey Milk, politician,
civil rights activist (d.
1978)\n*
May 31 -
Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer\n*
June 12 -
Jim Nabors, actor, musician, comedian\n*
June 22 -
Yuri Artyukhin,
cosmonaut (d.
1998)\n*
June 27 -
Ross Perot, billionaire and politician\n*
July 2 -
Carlos Menem, former President of
Argentina.\n*
July 4 -
George Steinbrenner, owner of the
New York Yankees\n*
July 11 -
Harold Bloom, literary critic\n*
August 1 -
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist\n*
August 5 -
Neil Armstrong,
astronaut, first person to walk on
Earth's
Moon\n*
August 12-
George Soros,
Hungarian-born American businessman\n*
August 21 -
Princess Margaret, sister of
Queen Elizabeth II\n*
August 25 - Sir
Sean Connery, actor\n*
September 3 -
Cherry Wilder, author\n*
September 7 -
Baudouin I of Belgium\n*
September 25 -
Shel Silverstein, author, poet, humorist (d.
1999)\n*
September 30 -
Ray Charles, singer, musician (d.
2004)\n*
October 1 - Sir
Richard Harris, actor (d.
2002)\n*
October 5 -
Pavel Popovich,
cosmonaut\n*
October 8 -
Toru Takemitsu, composer (d.
1996)\n*
October 10 -
Harold Pinter, playwright\n*
October 28 -
Bernie Ecclestone, Formula 1 racing tycoon\n*
October 30 -
Timothy Findley, Canadian author\n*
November 14 -
Edward White,
American astronaut (d.
1967)\n*
November 16 -
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer\n*
December 11 -
Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor\n*
December 21 -
Adebayo Adedeji, professor\n*
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah, later
Sultan of
Pahang and 7th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
Deaths
\n* February 23 -
Horst Wessel,
Nazi ideologue, composer\n*
March 8 -
William Howard Taft,
President of the United States,
Chief Justice of the United States\n*
March 19 -
Arthur James Balfour,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.\n*
March 24 -
Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter\n*
April 1 - Empress
Zawditu of Ethiopia\n*
May 13 -
Fridtjof Nansen, explorer\n*
June 5 -
Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse" \n*
July 7 -
Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of
Sherlock Holmes.\n*
August 15 -
Florian Cajori, historian of mathematics.\n*
August 29 -
William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and
Anglican priest\n*
October 26 Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, horse breeder \n*
November 4 -
Buddy Bolden,
jazz musician (b.
1877)\n*
December 9 -
Andrew "Rube" Foster, pioneer of
Negro League baseball
Nobel Prizes
\n*Physics -
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman\n*
Chemistry - Hans Fischer\n*
Medicine -
Karl Landsteiner\n*
Literature -
Sinclair Lewis\n*
Peace - Archbishop
Lars Olof Nathan Söderblom
Heads of state in 1930
- Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, King of Italy (1900 - 1946).\n*Albert I of Belgium, King of Belgium (1909 - 1934).\n*George V of the United Kingdom, King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India (1910 - 1936).\n*Christian X of Denmark, King of Denmark and Iceland (1912 - 1947).\n*Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary (1920 - 1944).\n*Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Soviet Union (1922 - 1946).\n*Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey (1923 - 1938).\n*Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany (1925 - 1934).\n*Hirohito, (Showa Emperor of Japan) (1926 - 1989).\n*Zog of Albania, King of Albania (1928 - 1939).\n* Herbert Clark Hoover, President of the United States (1929 - 1933).\n*Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930 - 1936, 1941 - 1974).\n*Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930 - 1945, 1950 - 1954).
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