1930: Encyclopedia II - 1930 - Events

1930 - Events

1930 - January-February

• 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.

1930 - 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 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

1930 - 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/May 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 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, 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

1930 - June-August

• June 9 - Chicago Tribune journalist Alfred Lingle 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 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 soccer 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 30 - Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in the first soccer 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

1930 - September-December

• September 6 - Josef Felix Urileu makes a successful military coup in 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 - 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 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 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

1930 - 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 republics of the Soviet Union, are merged.
• The University of Queensland starts the pitch drop experiment.
• Jake paralysis outbreak occurs in United States.

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