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Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1930
January
February
February 18
- While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when the term Planet was officially defined. Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.
- 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 - Mahatma 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 8 - Former United States President and current Chief Justice William Howard Taft dies in Washington, D.C.
March 12 - Mahatma 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 on April 5
March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
March 29 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
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
April
April 4 - The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
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 18
- Chittagong Rebellion begins in India.
- The BBC Radio Service from London, somewhat infamously, reports on this day that "There is no news".
April 21
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
May 4/May 5 - Mahatma 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 airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
May 16 - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo is elected president of the Dominican Republic.
May 17 - French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland. They depart by June 30.
May 20 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives in New York City.
May 24 - Amy Johnson lands in 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
June 9 - Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.
June 17 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
June 21 - One-year conscription comes into force in France.
July
July 5 - The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican Christian bishops opens. This conference approved the use of artificial birth control in limited circumstances, marking a controversial turning point in Christian views on contraception.
July 7
July 13 - The first Football World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against 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 28 - Richard Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.
July 30
July 31 - The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time.
August
August 7 - Richard Bennett becomes Canada's eleventh prime minister.
August 9 - Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
August 12 - Turkish troops move into Persia to fight Kurdish insurgents.
August 27 - Military junta takes over in Peru.
September
September 6 - José Félix Uriburu carries out a successful military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.
September 8 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
September 12 - Cricket player Wilfred Rhodes end his 1,110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
September 14 - National socialists win 107 seats in German parliament - 18.3% of all the votes makes them second largest party.
October
October 5 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
October 24 - Brazil - Revolution of 1930 by Getúlio Dornelles Vargas.
November
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
December - Turkish women given the right to vote.
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.
December 7 - W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
December 19 - Merapi 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.
December 29 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
Undated
British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine.
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics replaces the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
Jake paralysis outbreak occurs in United States.
Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidt camera.(External Link )
San Zenon A massive hurricane in the Caribbean almost demolishes the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, which was the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, was ever televised.
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada was incorporated as a city in 1930.
The last Giant Aye-aye dies, and the species becomes extinct.
Births
January-February
January 2 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
January 4 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
January 6
January 10 - Roy E. Disney, American film and television executive
January 12 - Jennifer Johnston, Irish writer
January 19 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
January 20 - Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
January 23 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 24 - Rita Lakin, American author
January 26 - John Straffen, British serial killer
January 27 - Bobby Bland, American singer
January 30 - Gene Hackman, American actor
February 10 - Robert Wagner, American actor
February 22
February 27
February 28 - Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March-April
March 2 - Tom Wolfe, American author and novelist
March 3 - Heiner Geißler, German politician
March 6
March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
March 10 - Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer
March 13 - Liz Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
March 15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, 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
March 24
March 25 - John Keel, American author
March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981-2006)
March 27 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 28 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 30
April 3
April 8 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
April 10 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
April 11 - Anton LaVey, American religious leader (d. 1997)
April 12 - Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (d. 2006)
April 15 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
April 16 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003)
April 19 - Dick Sargent, American actor and gay activist (d. 1994)
April 21 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
April 24 - Richard Donner, American film director and producer
April 25 - Paul Mazursky, American director and writer
April 28 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
April 29 - Jean Rochefort, French actor
May-June
May 3 - Bob Havens, American musician
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 11 - Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
May 15 - Jasper Johns, American painter
May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
May 21 - Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
May 22
May 24 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
May 31 - Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June 2 - Charles Conrad, astronaut (d. 1999)
June 5 - Connie Hines, American actress
June 8 - Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
June 9 - Monique Serf, French musician (d. 1997)
June 11 - Charles B. Rangel, American politician
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 24 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
June 27 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
July-August
July 2 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
July 3 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
July 4
July 9 - Buddy Bregman, American musical arranger
July 11 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
July 15 - Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
July 25
July 28 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
August 5 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
August 6 - Abbey Lincoln, American singer
August 12 - George Soros, Hungarian-born businessman
August 13 - Don Ho, Hawaiian singer (d. 2007)
August 17 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
August 21 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
August 25 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
August 27 - Gholamreza Takhti, The most famous wrestler in Iranian history (d. 1968)
August 30 - Warren Buffett, American investor
September-October
September 3 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
September 7
September 11 - Cathryn Damon, American actress (d. 1987)
September 16 - Anne Francis, American actress
September 23
September 24 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
September 25 - Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, and humorist (d. 1999)
September 26
October 1
October 5
October 6 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
October 8 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
October 10
October 11 - Sam Johnson, American politician
October 14 - Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (d. 2006)
October 17
October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
October 29
October 30
October 31 - Michael Collins, astronaut
November-December
November 3 - D. James Kennedy, American evangelist (d. 2007)
November 4 - Doris Roberts, American actress
November 14
November 15 - J.G. Ballard, English writer
November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
November 24 - Bob Friend, baseball player
November 25 - Clarke Scholes, American freestyle swimmer
December 1 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 4 - Jim Hall, jazz guitarist
December 6 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
December 8 - Stan Richards, Former Emmerdale actor (d. 2005)
December 11
December 15 - Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
December 21
December 27 - Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer
December 31 - Odetta, American singer
date unknown - Barney Glaser, American sociologist
Deaths
January - March
February 14 - Sir Thomas MacKenzie, New Zealand Prime Minister and High Commissioner (b. 1854)
February 21 - Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (b. 1898)
February 23 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)
March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)
March 6 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German politician and admiral (b. 1848)
March 8 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)
March 12 - William George Barker, Canadian pilot
March 19 - Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
March 24 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)
April - June
April 2 - Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
April 21 - Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
April 14 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1893)
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 - September
July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author (b. 1859)
July 8 - Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
July 28 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1862)
July 30 - Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
August 15 - Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b. 1859)
August 26 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest (b. 1844)
September 24 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
October - December
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
December 12 - Nikolai Pokrovsky, Russian politician and the last foreign minister of the Russian Empire (b. 1865)
December 13 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
Nobel prizes
Physics - Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chemistry - Hans Fischer
Physiology or Medicine - Karl Landsteiner
Literature - Sinclair Lewis
Peace - Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan SöderblomFurther Information
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