1930 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1930?
- January 6, 1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
- 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.
- January 31, 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
- March 6, 1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
- March 12, 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
- March 13, 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
- April 4, 1930 – The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
- 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 22, 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- May 28, 1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
- June 9, 1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- June 17, 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- July 11, 1930 – Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
- July 30, 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
- August 7, 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
- October 24, 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as “provisional president.”
- November 11, 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- December 7, 1930 – 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 29, 1930 – 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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