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'''1930''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXXX''') was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar).
Events
{{Year E}}
January-February
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January 6 - The first
diesel-engine
automobile trip is completed (
Indianapolis, Indiana, to
New York City).
*
February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January,
Clyde Tombaugh discovers
Pluto (planet) Pluto
*
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.
March
*
March 2 -
Mohandas Gandhi informs British
viceroy of India that
civil disobedience would begin nine days later
*
March 5 - Danish painter Einar Wegener goes through a
sexual reassignment surgery and takes the name
Lili Elbe
*
March 6 - first
frozen foods of
Clarence Birdseye go on sale in
Springfield, Massachusetts,
USA
*
March 12 -
Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on
salt - more will join them during the
Salt March that ends in
April 5
*
March 28 -
Constantinople and Angora change their names to
Istanbul and
Ankara
*
March 29 -
Heinrich Brüning is appointed German ''
Chancellor of Germany Reichskanzler''
*
March 31 - The
Hays Code Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in
film motion pictures for the next forty years
April-May
*
April 5 - In an act of
civil disobedience,
Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making
salt.
*
April 6 - Hostess
Twinkies are invented.
*
April 21 - Fire in
Ohio State Penitentiary near
Columbus, Ohio Columbus kills 320
*
April 22 - The
United Kingdom,
Japan and the
United States sign the
London Naval Treaty regulating
submarine warfare and limiting
shipbuilding.
*
April 28 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in
Independence, Kansas.
*
May 4/
May 5 -
Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again
*
May 6 - The Great
Salmas Earthquake in
Iran; 7.3 on the Richter Scale and killed 4,000 people.
*
May 10 -
National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded.
*
May 15 - Aboard a
Boeing tri-motor,
Ellen Church becomes the first
flight attendant airline stewardess (the flight was from
Oakland, California to
Chicago, Illinois).
*
May 17 - French Prime Minister
André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the
Rheinland. They depart by
June 30
*
May 20 -
Sergei Eisenstein arrives in New York City
*
May 24 -
Amy Johnson lands in
Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly solo from
England to
Australia (she left on
May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
*
May 30 -
Sergei Eisenstein arrives in
Hollywood to work for
Paramount Pictures - they part ways by October
June-August
*
June 9 - ''
Chicago Tribune'' journalist
Alfred Liddle is shot in
Chicago, Illinois, USA. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Liddle is later found to have had contacts to
organized crime
*
June 17 - U.S. President
Herbert Hoover signs the
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
*
June 17 -
Bonus Army: Around a thousand
World War I veterans mass at the
United States Capitol as the
United States Senate U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
*
June 21 - One-year
conscription comes into force in
France
*
July 7 -
Lapua Movement marches in
Helsinki,
Finland
*
July 7 - Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as
Hoover Dam) is started.
*
July 13 - The first
Football World Cup 1930 Football World Cup starts:
Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for
France national football team France against
Mexico national football team Mexico
*
July 26 -
Charles Creighton and
James Hargis of Missouri begin their return journey to
Los Angeles - driving 11 555 km using only a
reverse gear. The trip lasts the next 42 days
*
July 30 -
Uruguay national football team Uruguay beat
Argentina national football team Argentina 4-2 in the first
soccer (football) soccer Football World Cup 1930 World Cup Final
*
July 31 - The
radio mystery program ''
The Shadow'' airs for the first time.
*
August 7 -
Richard Bedford Bennett becomes
Canada's eleventh
Prime Minister of Canada prime minister.
*
August 9 -
Betty Boop premiers in the animated film ''
Dizzy Dishes''.
*
August 12 -
Turkey Turkish troops move into
Iran Persia to fight
Kurds Kurdish insurgents
*
August 27 -
Military junta takes over in
Peru
September-December
*
September 6 -
José Félix Uriburu makes a successful military coup, overthrowing
Hipólito Yrigoyen,
List of Presidents of Argentina President of
Argentina.
*
September 8 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
*
September 12 -
Wilfred Rhodes end his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
*
September 14 -
Nazism National socialists win 107 seats in German parliament - 18.3% of all the votes makes them second largest party
*
October 5 - British
Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
*
October 24 -
Brazil -
History of Brazil (1930-1945)#The Revolution of 1930 Revolution of 1930 by
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas
*
November 1 - William Joseph Dess is born in New Castle, PA to Joseph and Mary Dess.
*
November 2 -
Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of
Ethiopia.
*
November 25 - An
earthquake in the
Izu Peninsula of
Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings
*
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
Economics economy.
*
December 19 -
Merap volcano erupts - 1300 dead
*
December 24 - In
London,
Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds
*
December 28 -
Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations
Unknown dates
* British White Paper demands restrictions on
Jewish immigration into
Palestine (region) Palestine
*
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo takes over in the
Dominican Republic
* The Federal Bureau of Narcotics replaces the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
*
Walther Bothe and H. Becker discover the
neutron.
*
Abkhazia and
Georgian SSR Georgia, autonomous republics of the
Soviet Union, are merged.
* The
University of Queensland starts the
pitch drop experiment.
*
Jake paralysis outbreak occurs in United States.
Births
January-February
*
January 2 -
Julius LaRosa, American singer
*
January 12 -
Jennifer Johnston, Irish writer
*
January 20 -
Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
*
January 23 -
Derek Walcott, West Indian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate
*
January 26 -
John Straffen, British serial killer
*
January 27 -
Bobby Bland, American singer
*
February 22 -
Marni Nixon, American singer and actress
*
February 27 -
Joanne Woodward, American actress
*
February 27 -
Peter Stone, American writer (d.
2003)
*
February 28 -
Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
March
*
March 3 -
Heiner Geissler Heiner Geißler, German politician
*
March 6 -
Allison Hayes, American actress (d.
1977)
*
March 6 -
Lorin Maazel, French-born conductor
*
March 7 -
Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
*
March 10 -
Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer
*
March 15 -
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
March 17 -
James Irwin, astronaut (d.
1991)
*
March 19 -
Ornette Coleman, American musician
*
March 20 -
Willie Thrower, American football player
*
March 22 -
Pat Robertson, American televangelist
*
March 22 -
Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
*
March 24 -
David Dacko, first
President of the Central African Republic (d.
2003)
*
March 24 -
Steve McQueen, American actor, film director, and producer (d.
1980)
*
March 25 -
John Keel, American author
*
March 26 -
Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
*
March 27 -
David Janssen, American actor (d.
1980)
*
March 28 -
Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
March 30 -
John Astin, American actor
*
March 30 -
Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer
*
March 30 -
Peter Marshall (game show host) Peter Marshall, American game show host
April
*
April 3 -
Helmut Kohl,
Chancellor of Germany
*
April 8 -
Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
*
April 10 -
Spede Pasanen Pertti "Spede" Olavi Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d.
2001)
*
April 11 -
Anton LaVey, American religious leader (d.
1997)
*
April 15 -
VigdÃs Finnbogadóttir,
President of Iceland
*
April 16 -
Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d.
2003)
*
April 21 -
Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d.
1989)
*
April 25 -
Paul Mazursky, American director and writer
*
April 29 -
Jean Rochefort, French actor
May-August
*
May 4 -
Roberta Peters, American soprano
*
May 8 -
Heather Harper, Irish soprano
*
May 9 -
Joan Sims, English actress (d.
2001)
*
May 10 -
Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
*
May 15 -
Jasper Johns, American painter
*
May 19 -
Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d.
1965)
*
May 21 -
Malcolm Fraser, twenty-second
Prime Minister of Australia
*
May 22 -
John Barth, American writer
*
May 22 -
Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d.
1978)
*
May 31 -
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
*
June 2 -
Charles Conrad, astronaut (d.
1999)
*
June 8 -
Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Economics
*
June 9 -
Monique Serf, French musician (d.
1997)
*
June 12 -
Jim Nabors, American actor, musician, and comedian
*
June 17 -
Brian Statham, English cricketer (d.
2000)
*
June 19 -
Gena Rowlands, American actress
*
June 22 -
Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d.
1998)
*
June 27 -
Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
*
July 2 -
Carlos Menem,
President of Argentina
*
July 3 -
Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d.
2004)
*
July 4 -
George Steinbrenner, baseball team owner
*
July 11 -
Harold Bloom, American literary critic
*
July 15 -
Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d.
2004)
*
July 25 -
Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
*
July 25 -
Murray Chapple,
New Zealand cricket captains (d.
1985)
*
August 1 -
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
*
August 5 -
Neil Armstrong, astronaut
*
August 12 -
George Soros, Hungarian-born businessman
*
August 17 -
Ted Hughes, English poet (d.
1998)
*
August 21 -
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d.
2002)
*
August 25 - Sir
Sean Connery, Scottish actor
*
August 30 -
Warren Buffett, American investor
September-December
*
September 3 -
Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d.
2002)
*
September 7 - King
Baudouin I of Belgium (d.
1993)
*
September 16 -
Anne Francis, American actress
*
September 25 -
Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, and humorist (d.
1999)
*
September 26 -
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d.
1966)
*
September 30 -
Ray Charles, American singer and musician (d.
2004)
*
October 1 -
Richard Harris (actor) Richard Harris, Irish actor (d.
2002)
*
October 5 -
Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d.
1999)
*
October 5 -
Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
*
October 5 -
Reinhard Selten, German economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate
*
October 6 -
Hafez al-Assad,
President of Syria (d.
2000)
*
October 8 -
TÅ?ru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d.
1996)
*
October 10 -
Yves Chauvin, French chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate
*
October 10 -
Harold Pinter, English playwright,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate
*
October 11 -
Sam Johnson, American politician
*
October 17 -
Robert Atkins (nutritionist) Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d.
2003)
*
October 28 -
Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
*
October 30 -
Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d.
1956)
*
October 30 -
Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d.
2002)
*
October 31 -
Michael Collins, astronaut
*
November 4 -
Doris Roberts, American actress
*
November 14 -
Edward Higgins White Edward White, astronaut (d.
1967)
*
November 16 -
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
*
November 24 -
Bob Friend, baseball player
*
December 1 -
Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d.
2002)
*
December 2 -
Gary Becker, American economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate
*
December 6 -
Daniel Lisulo,
Prime Minister of Zambia {d.
2000)
*
December 11 -
Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
*
December 15 -
Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
*
December 21 -
Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official
Date unknown
*
Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (d.
1996)
*
Barney Glaser, American sociologist
Deaths
*
February 23 -
Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b.
1907)
*
February 27 -
Ahmad Shah Qajar,
Shah of Persia (b.
1898)
*
March 2 -
D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b.
1885)
*
March 8 -
William Howard Taft,
President of the United States,
Chief Justice of the United States (b.
1857)
*
March 19 -
Arthur James Balfour,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1848)
*
March 24 -
Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b.
1875)
*
April 2 - Empress
Zawditu of Ethiopia (b.
1876)
*
April 21 -
Robert Bridges, English poet (b.
1844)
*
April 22 -
Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (b.
1866)
*
May 13 -
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1861)
*
May 25 -
Randall Thomas Davidson,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1848)
*
June 5 -
Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b.
1885)
*
July 7 -
Arthur Conan Doyle, British author (b.
1859)
*
July 28 -
Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1862)
*
August 15 -
Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b.
1859)
*
August 29 -
William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest (b.
1844)
*
September 24 -
William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b.
1857)
*
October 26 -
Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b.
1872)
*
November 4 -
Buddy Bolden, American musician (b.
1877)
*
November 5 -
Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1858)
*
December 9 -
Rube Foster Andrew "Rube" Foster,
Negro League baseball player
*
December 9 -
Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian painter (b.
1860)
*
December 13 -
Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1869)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Hans Fischer
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Physiology or Medicine -
Karl Landsteiner
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Sinclair Lewis
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace - Archbishop
Nathan Söderblom Lars Olof Nathan Söderblom
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