1930 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1930?
- January 26, 1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
- January 30, 1930 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 18, 1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
- March 29, 1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
- March 31, 1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
- April 6, 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.” beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
- April 18, 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
- May 1, 1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
- May 27, 1930 – The 1046 ft Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
- May 28, 1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
- June 16, 1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
- June 18, 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
- July 7, 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- July 30, 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
- August 9, 1930 – Betty Boop made her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
- August 16, 1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
- September 8, 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
- September 12, 1930 – Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower’s XI against the Australians.
- October 5, 1930 – British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
- October 27, 1930 – ratifications exchanged in London, for the first London Naval Treaty signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty’s modified provisions go into effect immediately; further limiting the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories.
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