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).
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 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
March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara
March 29 - Heinrich BrÃÂ¼ning 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 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 15 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
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).
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.
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.
October 5 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
October 24 - Brazil - Revolution of 1930.
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.
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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 GeiÃÂler, 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 - VigdÃÂs FinnbogadÃÂ³ttir, 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 of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India (1910 - 1936).
Christian X of Denmark, King of Denmark and Iceland (1912 - 1947).
MiklÃÂ³s Horthy, Regent of Hungary (1920 - 1944).
Mikhail Kalinin, President of the Soviet Union (1922 - 1946).
Mustafa Kemal AtatÃÂ¼rk, 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).