January 1930 in History

Events in History

Jan 5 Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house

Jan 5 Mao Zedong writes the essay "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" to criticize cadres not creating rural revolutionary base areas

Jan 6 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed
Jan 7 Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness" premieres in NYC
Jan 7 Marguerite Perey discovers francium (Fr), the last naturally occurring element to be found

Jan 9 Architectural firm Albert Kahn Associates becomes the consulting architects for all industrial construction in the Soviet Union

Jan 10 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
Jan 13 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears
Jan 18 -27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
Jan 20 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
Jan 22 -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
Jan 23 Clyde Tombaugh photographs dwarf planet Pluto
Jan 23 George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established
Jan 23 WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
Jan 24 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century
Jan 26 Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
Jan 30 Russia launches their 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver- from Pavlovsk, USSR.
Jan 31 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, New Jersey

Jan 1 Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier/president (Sudan)
Jan 3 Marcel Dubé, Quebec playwright
Jan 5 Edward Galven Givens Jr., Major USAF/astronaut, born in Quanah, Texas (d. 1967)
Jan 6 Denis Pitts, English journalist
Jan 11 Ron Mulock, Australian politician
Jan 12 Jennifer Johnston, Irish author (Fool's sanctuary), born in Dublin, Ireland
Jan 13 Roman Cieślewicz, Polish French artist, graphic designer, born in Lwów, Poland (d. 1996)
Jan 16 Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer, born in Blair, Oklahoma (d. 2006)
Jan 16 Norman Podhoretz, American neoconservative pundit (NY Post), born in Brooklyn, New York

Jan 20 American astronaut & fighter pilot (Gem 12, Ap 11), born in Montclair, New Jersey

Jan 21 Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut
Jan 23 Derek Walcott, Caribbean poet (Omeros), Nobel Prize for Literature 1992, born in Castries, St Lucia (d. 2017)
Jan 23 William Reid Pogue, American fighter pilot & astronaut (Skylab 4), born in Okemah, Oklahoma (d. 2014)
Jan 24 Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer (Bernard Matthews Farms), born in Brooke, England (d. 2010)
Jan 25 Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist, born in Dvorišče (d. 1944)
Jan 26 A N Solomons, British banking chairman (Singer & Friedlander)
Jan 26 Anne Macfarlane, Master (Court of Protection)
Jan 27 Esteban Edward Torres, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1983-99), born in Miami, Arizona (d. 2022)
Jan 27 Roger Sims, British MP
Jan 30 Frank O'Bannon, American politician (Governor of Indiana, 1997-2003), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2003)
Jan 30 Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1974)

Jan 14 American author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning (23) in Los Angeles, California (divorced 1942)

Jan 15 Businesswoman Estee Mentzer (23) weds businessman Joseph Lauter (later Lauder)

Jan 9 Edward W Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 66
Jan 13 Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer and inventor (Rateau steam turbine), dies at 66
Jan 13 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, English electrical engineer and inventor, dies at 65
Jan 22 Stephen Mather, American industrialist and conservationist (organized US National Park Service), dies at 62
Jan 24 Rebecca Latimer Felton, American writer and politician (first woman to serve as U.S. Senator (Georgia)), dies at 94 [1]