1930 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. Events January-February 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 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-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 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-August 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 30 - Uruguay beat Argentina in the first football 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. 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-December 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 September 16 - overthrow of Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina. 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 Unknown dates British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into 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 Georgia, autonomous republcs of the Soviet Union, are merged. 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-February 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 March 3 - Heiner Geißler, politician March 6 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American 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 March 30 - Rolf Harris, entertainer April April 3 - Helmut Kohl, German chancellor April 10 - Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and flutist 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 May 4 - Roberta Peters, American soprano May 8 - Heather Harper, Irish soprano 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 June 12 - Jim Nabors, actor, musician, comedian June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998) June 27 - Ross Perot, billionaire and politician July July 2 - Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina. July 4 - George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees July 11 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic July 25 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto August 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, Countess of Snowdon, sister of Queen Elizabeth II August 22 - Zurab Urushadze, Georgian biophysicist August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor September September 3 - Cherry Wilder, author September 7 - Baudouin I of Belgium September 25 - Shel Silverstein, author, poet, humorist (d. 1999) September 26 - Fritz Wunderlich, tenor (d. 1966) September 30 - Ray Charles, singer, musician (d. 2004) October-December 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 11 - Sam Johnson, American politician 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 Deaths February 23 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue, composer February 27 - Ahmad Shah Qajar , former Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty 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 December 9 - Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian impressionist painter Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet and novelist. (b. 1866) 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). 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