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.
- February 18, 1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
- 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 29, 1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
- April 18, 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
- April 28, 1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
- May 1, 1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
- May 24, 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
- 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.
- June 21, 1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
- 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.
- August 16, 1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
- September 6, 1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
- September 8, 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
- November 3, 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- December 16, 1930 – Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana.
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