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 30, 1930 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- February 18, 1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
- March 13, 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
- March 29, 1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
- May 1, 1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
- 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 18, 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
- 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.
- July 31, 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
- August 29, 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- September 27, 1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
- 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.
- November 2, 1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
- November 18, 1930 – Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Sōka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
- December 2, 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
- 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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