1930
1930 (
MCMXXX) was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar).
January-February
*
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 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 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-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 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 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
June-August
*
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 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
Football World Cup starts:
Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for
France against
*
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 B. 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*
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
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September 6 -
José Félix Uriburu makes 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*
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 -
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.
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.
January
*
January 2 -
Julius LaRosa, American singer
*
January 4 -
Sorrell Booke, American actor (d.
1994)
*
January 12 -
Jennifer Johnston, Irish writer
*
January 20 -
Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
*
January 23 -
Derek Walcott, West Indian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
January 26 -
John Straffen, British serial killer
*
January 27 -
Bobby Bland, American singer
*
January 30 -
Gene Hackman, American actor
February
*
February 22 -
Marni Nixon, American singer and actress
*
February 27 -
Joanne Woodward, American actress
*
February 27 -
Peter Stone, American writer (d.
2003)
*
February 28 -
Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
March
*
March 3 -
Heiner Geißler, German politician
*
March 6 -
Allison Hayes, American actress (d.
1977)
*
March 6 -
Lorin Maazel, French-born conductor
*
March 7 -
Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
*
March 10 -
Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer
*
March 15 -
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
March 17 -
James Irwin, astronaut (d.
1991)
*
March 19 -
Ornette Coleman, American musician
*
March 20 -
Willie Thrower, American football player
*
March 22 -
Pat Robertson, American televangelist
*
March 22 -
Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
*
March 24 -
David Dacko, first
President of the Central African Republic (d.
2003)
*
March 24 -
Steve McQueen, American actor, film director, and producer (d.
1980)
*
March 25 -
John Keel, American author
*
March 26 -
Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981-2005)
*
March 27 -
David Janssen, American actor (d.
1980)
*
March 28 -
Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
March 30 -
John Astin, American actor
*
March 30 -
Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer
*
March 30 -
Peter Marshall, American game show host
April
*
April 3 -
Helmut Kohl,
Chancellor of Germany*
April 8 -
Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma*
April 10 -
Pertti "Spede" Olavi Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d.
2001)
*
April 11 -
Anton LaVey, American religious leader (d.
1997)
*
April 15 -
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir,
President of Iceland*
April 16 -
Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d.
2003)
*
April 21 -
Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d.
1989)
*
April 24 -
Richard Donner, American film director and producer
*
April 25 -
Paul Mazursky, American director and writer
*
April 29 -
Jean Rochefort, French actor
May
*
May 4 -
Roberta Peters, American soprano
*
May 8 -
Heather Harper, Irish soprano
*
May 9 -
Joan Sims, English actress (d.
2001)
*
May 9 -
Darcy Pedrosa, Brazilian actor,
voice actor and radialist (d.
1999)
*
May 10 -
Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
*
May 15 -
Jasper Johns, American painter
*
May 19 -
Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d.
1965)
*
May 21 -
Malcolm Fraser, twenty-second
Prime Minister of Australia*
May 22 -
John Barth, American writer
*
May 22 -
Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d.
1978)
*
May 31 -
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June
*
June 2 -
Charles Conrad, astronaut (d.
1999)
*
June 8 -
Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Economics*
June 9 -
Monique Serf, French musician (d.
1997)
*
June 12 -
Jim Nabors, American actor, musician, and comedian
*
June 17 -
Brian Statham, English cricketer (d.
2000)
*
June 19 -
Gena Rowlands, American actress
*
June 22 -
Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d.
1998)
*
June 27 -
Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
July
*
July 2 -
Carlos Menem,
President of Argentina*
July 3 -
Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d.
2004)
*
July 4 -
George Steinbrenner, baseball team owner
*
July 4 -
Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor
*
July 11 -
Harold Bloom, American literary critic
*
July 15 -
Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d.
2004)
*
July 25 -
Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
*
July 25 -
Murray Chapple,
New Zealand cricket captains (d.
1985)
*
July 28 -
Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d.
2006)
August
*
August 1 -
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
*
August 5 -
Neil Armstrong, astronaut
*
August 6 -
Abbey Lincoln, jazz singer
*
August 12 -
George Soros, Hungarian-born businessman
*
August 17 -
Ted Hughes, English poet (d.
1998)
*
August 21 -
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d.
2002)
*
August 25 - Sir
Sean Connery, Scottish actor
*
August 30 -
Warren Buffett, American investor
September
*
September 3 -
Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d.
2002)
*
September 7 - King
Baudouin I of Belgium (d.
1993)
*
September 16 -
Anne Francis, American actress
*
September 25 -
Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, and humorist (d.
1999)
*
September 26 -
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d.
1966)
*
September 30 -
Ray Charles, American singer and musician (d.
2004)
October
*
October 1 -
Richard Harris, Irish actor (d.
2002)
*
October 5 -
Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d.
1999)
*
October 5 -
Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
*
October 5 -
Reinhard Selten, German economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
October 6 -
Hafez al-Assad,
President of Syria (d.
2000)
*
October 8 -
Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d.
1996)
*
October 10 -
Yves Chauvin, French chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
October 10 -
Harold Pinter, English playwright,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
October 11 -
Sam Johnson, American politician
*
October 17 -
Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d.
2003)
*
October 28 -
Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
*
October 30 -
Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d.
1956)
*
October 30 -
Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d.
2002)
*
October 31 -
Michael Collins, astronaut
November
*
November 4 -
Doris Roberts, American actress
*
November 14 -
Edward White, astronaut (d.
1967)
*
November 16 -
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
*
November 24 -
Bob Friend, baseball player
December
*
December 1 -
Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d.
2002)
*
December 2 -
Gary Becker, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
December 4 -
Jim Hall, jazz guitarist
*
December 6 -
Daniel Lisulo,
Prime Minister of Zambia (d.
2000)
*
December 11 -
Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
*
December 11 -
Jim Williams, Savannah, Georgia antiques dealer and preservationist
*
December 15 -
Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
*
December 21 -
Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official
Date unknown
*
Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (d.
1996)
*
Barney Glaser, American sociologist
*
February 23 -
Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b.
1907)
*
February 27 -
Ahmad Shah Qajar,
Shah of Persia (b.
1898)
*
March 2 -
D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b.
1885)
*
March 6 -
Alfred von Tirpitz, German politician and admiral (b.
1848)
*
March 8 -
William Howard Taft,
President of the United States,
Chief Justice of the United States (b.
1857)
*
March 19 -
Arthur James Balfour,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1848)
*
March 24 -
Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b.
1875)
*
April 2 - Empress
Zawditu of Ethiopia (b.
1876)
*
April 21 -
Robert Bridges, English poet (b.
1844)
*
April 22 -
Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (b.
1866)
*
May 13 -
Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1861)
*
May 25 -
Randall Thomas Davidson,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1848)
*
June 5 -
Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b.
1885)
*
July 7 -
Arthur Conan Doyle, British author (b.
1859)
*
July 28 -
Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1862)
*
August 15 -
Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b.
1859)
*
August 29 -
William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest (b.
1844)
*
September 24 -
William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b.
1857)
*
October 26 -
Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b.
1872)
*
November 4 -
Buddy Bolden, American musician (b.
1877)
*
November 5 -
Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1858)
*
December 9 -
Andrew "Rube" Foster,
Negro League baseball player
*
December 9 -
Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian painter (b.
1860)
*
December 13 -
Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1869)
* Labor Activist Mary Harris Jones dies at age 93
*
Physics -
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman*
Chemistry -
Hans Fischer*
Physiology or Medicine -
Karl Landsteiner*
Literature -
Sinclair Lewis*
Peace - Archbishop
Lars Olof Nathan Söderblom
