Events in History in 1930

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• Jan 1 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant
• Jan 1 Jurgens & Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever

• 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 10 Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England in Christchurch, New Zealand
• Jan 10 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
• 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 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 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya" premieres in Leningrad
• Jan 30 The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
• Jan 31 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, New Jersey

• Feb 3 The Indochinese Communist Party of Vietnam is established
• Feb 4 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
• Feb 5 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
• Feb 10 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
• Feb 17 French government of André Tardieu falls for the first time
• Feb 18 Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
• Feb 18 Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi" premieres in Milan
• Feb 18 Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon" premieres in NYC
• Feb 18 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
• Feb 21 Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures" premieres in NYC
• Feb 25 Check photographing device patented
• Feb 26 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
• Feb 27 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
• Mar 2 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
• Mar 4 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
• Mar 4 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
• Mar 4 Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.


• Mar 11 William Taft, US 27th President & Chief Justice buried in Arlington

• Mar 12 Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh] sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
• Mar 13 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
• Mar 15 1st seaplane glider flown at Port Washington, NY
• Mar 15 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
• Mar 16 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
• Mar 19 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
• Mar 20 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph

• Mar 23 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
• Mar 23 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
• Mar 24 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
• Mar 26 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
• Mar 27 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
• Mar 28 Turkish cities Constantinople & Angora change their names to Istanbul & Ankara
• Mar 29 Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
• Apr 2 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda

• Apr 4 The Communist Party of Panama is founded
• Apr 5 England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
• Apr 6 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
• Apr 6 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
• Apr 10 George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston
• Apr 10 Thiokol synthetic rubber 1st produced in Yardley, New Jersey
• Apr 14 Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC
• Apr 17 Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
• Apr 17 DuPont scientist Elmer K. Bolton invents neoprene using Julius Nieuwland's divinyl acetylene
• Apr 18 Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da
• Apr 21 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
• Apr 21 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid" premieres in Moscow
• Apr 22 US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
• Apr 22 British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong, Bengal province, British India, 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries killed
• Apr 29 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
• Apr 29 Telephone connection Britain-Australia goes into service
• May 1 The planet Pluto is officially named by 11 year-old Venetia Burney
• May 2 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights

• May 7 Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins

• May 10 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
• May 10 Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 v Yorkshire at Sheffield
• May 12 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
• May 15 Ellen Church becomes 1st female airline stewardess aboard a United flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne
• May 19 White women win voting rights in South Africa
• May 20 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
• May 21 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
• May 22 Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
• May 22 Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
• May 24 Amy Johnson becomes the 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia
• May 26 Joe Sewell, strikes out twice of his 3 times in 1930, by Pat Caraway
• May 26 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
• May 27 Richard Drew invents masking tape

• May 28 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand
• May 31 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
• May 31 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
• Jun 2 Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
• Jun 7 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

• Jun 13 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece
• Jun 16 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR
• Jun 18 Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held
• Jun 21 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
• Jun 24 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
• Jun 24 Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
• Jun 28 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs
• Jun 30 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady, NY
• Jul 1 Great Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq


• Jul 3 US Veterans Administration created

• Jul 13 David Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"

• Jul 20 106°F (41°C), Washington, D.C. (district record)
• Jul 21 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
• Jul 21 US Veterans Administration forms
• Jul 23 Earthquake strikes Ariano Italy, 1,500 killed
• Jul 23 Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
• Jul 25 Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland
• Jul 28 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
• Jul 29 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
• Jul 29 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
• Aug 4 Child labor laws established in Belgium
• Aug 6 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
• Aug 6 Remains of balloon expedition of Solamon August Andrées to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen
• Aug 7 A large mob estimated at 2,000, lynch two young black men Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana

• Aug 8 St Louis Cards are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
• Aug 9 113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
• Aug 9 Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)

• Aug 16 1st British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Canada
• Aug 18 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
• Aug 21 Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
• Aug 23 1st British Empire Games close in Hamilton, Canada
• Aug 26 Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
• Aug 29 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
• Sep 1 NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater
• Sep 2 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
• Sep 3 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)
• Sep 4 Cambridge Theatre opens in London

• Sep 8 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
• Sep 8 NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew
• Sep 8 Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
• Sep 10 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia
• Sep 11 Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
• Sep 13 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
• Sep 14 Nazis gain 107 seats in German election


• Sep 15 1st international bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
• Sep 18 Philadelphia A's win AL championship for 2nd year in a row
• Sep 20 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
• Sep 21 Johann Ostermeyer patents flashbulb
• Sep 24 G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime" premieres in NY
• Sep 24 Noel Coward's "Private Lives" premieres in London
• Sep 25 Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
• Sep 25 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it" premieres in NYC
• Sep 27 Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
• Sep 29 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
• Sep 29 Boquerón battle ends Paraguay border dispute
• Sep 29 NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
• Oct 5 British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais, France, 48 die
• Oct 5 Homecoming of the bodies of Swedish polar balloon expedition (1897) led by Salomon August Andrée
• Oct 9 1st transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls
• Oct 10 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP & BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
• Oct 10 Yankees announce signing Joe McCarthy to manage for 4 years
• Oct 11 Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, won the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
• Oct 13 New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP members in uniform
• Oct 19 Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)
• Oct 20 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
• Oct 22 Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930" premieres in NYC

• Oct 25 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center
• Oct 25 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began
• Oct 29 1st Eastern Canada night CF game: Oshawa vs Toronto Balmy Beach
• Oct 30 Turkey & Greece sign a treaty of friendship
• Nov 2 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethopian Solmonic Dynasty
• Nov 3 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens

• Nov 3 Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
• Nov 5 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
• Nov 8 Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro" premieres in Berlin
• Nov 9 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama

• Nov 13 WA Drake's "Grand Hotel" premieres in NYC
• Nov 18 Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
• Nov 22 1st Irish Sweepstake run
• Nov 22 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)

• Nov 23 NY Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
• Nov 24 Ruth Nichols sets women's transcontinental air flight record (Mineola, NY to California), in a Lockheed-Vega
• Nov 25 Ito, Japan records 690 earthquake shocks in 1 day
• Dec 3 Airborn chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley, Belgium)
• Dec 3 Otto Ender forms Austrian government
• Dec 4 Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
• Dec 8 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
• Dec 10 Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on light scattering - first Asian and non-white to win a Science Nobel

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