1930

Years: 1927 1928 1929 - 1930 - 1931 1932 1933
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1930 in aviation 1930 in film 1930 in literature 1930 in music 1930 in sports 1930 in television 1930 state leaders 1930 in Canada

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Nobel Prizes
6 Heads of state in 1930

Events

January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
January 27 - Miguel Primo de Rivera resigns
January 30 - General Damaso Berenquer becomes the new prime minister of Spain
February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers 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 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 food products in 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 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 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 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 4-5 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again
May 15 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
May 17 - French foreign minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rheinland. They depart by June 30
May 20 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives to New York City
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).
May 30 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives to Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures - they part ways by October
June 9 - Chicago Tribune journalist Alfred Liddle is shot in Chigaco, 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 into law.
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.
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 31 - The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
August 7 - Richard Bedford 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 6 - Josef Felix Urileu makes a successful military coup in Argentina
September 14 - 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 - Revolution of 1930 by Getulio Vargas
November 2 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
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 19 - Merap volcano erupts - 1300 dead
December 28 - Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations

British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo takes over in the Dominican Republic
Federal Bureau of Narcotics replaces the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit (predecessor of DEA
Walther Bothe and H. Becker discover neutron

Year in topic

1930 in aviation
1930 in film
- All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 in literature
1930 in music
1930 in sports
- Uruguay wins Football World Cup on home ground
- British Empire Games held in Hamilton, Canada
1930 in television
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- The BBC begins regular television transmission

Births

January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor
January 4 - Don Shula, American football coach
January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
January 12 - Tim Horton, NHL player, Hockey Hall of Famer, founder of Tim Hortons doughnut shops (d. 1974)
January 12 - Glenn Yarborough, singer, songwriter
January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
January 20 - Buzz Aldrin, astronaut, second person to walk on Earth's Moon
January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
January 25 - Dean Jones, actor
January 30 - Gene Hackman, actor
February 3 - Gillian Ayres, painter
February 10 - Robert Wagner, actor
February 11 - Alevtina Koltschina Soviet skier.
February 11 - C. H. Dearnley, organist.
February 13 - Ernst Fuchs, painter and graphic artist
February 17 - Ruth Barbara Rendell, writer
February 27 - Joanne Woodward, actress
March 3 - Heiner Geißler, politician
March 6 - Lorin Maazel, opera conductor
March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
March 19 - Ornette Coleman, musician
March 22 - Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist
March 22 - Pat Robertson, televangelist
March 24 - Steve McQueen, film director and producer (d. 1980)
March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court Justice.
March 27 - David Janssen, actor (d. 1980)
March 30 - John Astin, actor
April 3 - Helmut Kohl, German chancellor
April 15 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
April 21 - Silvana Mangano, actress (d. 1989)
April 22 - Georges Schoeters, Belgian born FLQ activist
April 25 - Paul Mazursky, director, writer
May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster
May 15 - Jasper Johns, painter
May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (d. 1965)
May 21 - Malcolm Fraser, twenty-second Prime Minister of Australia
May 22 - Harvey Milk, politician, civil rights activist (d. 1978)
May 31 - Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
June 12 - Jim Nabors, actor, musician, comedian
June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
June 27 - Ross Perot, billionaire and politician
July 2 - Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina.
July 4 - George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees
July 11 - Harold Bloom, literary critic
August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
August 5 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut, first person to walk on Earth's Moon
August 12- George Soros, Hungarian-born American businessman
August 21 - Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II
August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
September 3 - Cherry Wilder, author
September 7 - Baudouin I of Belgium
September 25 - Shel Silverstein, author, poet, humorist (d. 1999)
September 30 - Ray Charles, singer, musician (d. 2004)
October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor (d. 2002)
October 5 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
October 8 - Toru Takemitsu, composer (d. 1996)
October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, Formula 1 racing tycoon
October 30 - Timothy Findley, Canadian author
November 14 - Edward White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor
December 21 - Adebayo Adedeji, professor
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

February 23 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue, composer
March 8 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States
March 19 - Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
March 24 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter
April 1 - Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia
May 13 - Fridtjof Nansen, explorer
June 5 - Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse"
July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
August 15 - Florian Cajori, historian of mathematics.
August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest
October 26 Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, horse breeder
November 4 - Buddy Bolden, jazz musician (b. 1877)
December 9 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, pioneer of Negro League baseball

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chemistry - Hans Fischer
Medicine - Karl Landsteiner
Literature - Sinclair Lewis
Peace - Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan Söderblom;

Heads of state in 1930

Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, King of Italy (1900 - 1946).
Albert I of Belgium, King of Belgium (1909 - 1934).
George V of the United Kingdom, King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India (1910 - 1936).
Christian X of Denmark, King of Denmark and Iceland (1912 - 1947).
Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary (1920 - 1944).
Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Soviet Union (1922 - 1946).
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, President of Turkey (1923 - 1938).
Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany (1925 - 1934).
Hirohito, (Showa Emperor of Japan) (1926 - 1989).
Zog of Albania, King of Albania (1928 - 1939).
Herbert Clark Hoover, President of the United States (1929 - 1933).
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930 - 1936, 1941 - 1974).
Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930 - 1945, 1950 - 1954).