1930

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Modèle:Year nav Modèle:C20YearInTopicX Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Modèle:C20YearTOC

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Events of 1930

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January-February

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January 31: Scotch Tape is marketed.

January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
January 13 - The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
January 26 - The Indian National Congress declares 26th January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
January 30 - radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR
January 31 - The 3M company markets Scotch Tape.
February 18
- While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto, a heavenly body that was once listed as a planet
- Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.

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February 18: Pluto found.

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March-April

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 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
- Fire in Ohio Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320.
- The Turkestan-Siberia Railway is completed.
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.

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May-June

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 9 - Chicago Tribune journalist Alfred Liddle 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 21 - One-year conscription comes into force in France.

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July-August

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
- Lapua Movement marches in Helsinki, Finland.
- Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is started.
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
- Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in the first soccer World Cup Final.
- W2XBS station, New York, is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers.
July 31 - The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
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.

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September-October

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 - 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.
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.

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November-December

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 - 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.

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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.

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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.

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