1930

1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar).

Events

February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
February 18 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.

March 2 - Mohandas Gandhi informs British viceroy of India that civil disobedience would begin nine days later
March 5 - Danish painter Einar Wegener goes through a sexual reassignment surgery and takes the name Lili Elbe
March 6 - first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
March 12 - Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt - more will join them during the Salt March that ends in April 5
March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara
March 29 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler
March 31 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next forty years

April 5 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
April 6 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
April 21 - Fire in Ohio State Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320
April 22 - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
April 28 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
May 4/May 5 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again
May 6 - The Great Salmas Earthquake in Iran; 7.3 on the Richter Scale and killed 4,000 people.
May 10 - National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded.
May 15 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
May 17 - French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rheinland. They depart by June 30
May 20 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives in New York City
May 24 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
May 30 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures - they part ways by October

June 9 - Chicago Tribune journalist Alfred Liddle is shot in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Liddle is later found to have had contacts to organized crime
June 17 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
June 17 - Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
June 21 - One-year conscription comes into force in France
July 7 - Lapua Movement marches in Helsinki, Finland
July 7 - Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is started.
July 13 - The first Football World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico
July 26 - Charles Creighton and James Hargis of Missouri begin their return journey to Los Angeles - driving 11 555 km using only a reverse gear. The trip lasts the next 42 days
July 30 - Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in the first soccer World Cup Final
July 31 - The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
August 7 - Richard Bedford Bennett becomes Canada's eleventh prime minister.
August 9 - Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
August 12 - Turkish troops move into Persia to fight Kurdish insurgents
August 27 - Military junta takes over in Peru

September 6 - José Félix Uriburu makes a successful military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.
September 8 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
September 12 - Wilfred Rhodes end his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
September 14 - National socialists win 107 seats in German parliament - 18.3% of all the votes makes them second largest party
October 5 - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
October 24 - Brazil - Revolution of 1930 by Getúlio Dornelles Vargas
November 1 - William Joseph Dess is born in New Castle, PA to Joseph and Mary Dess.
November 2 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
November 25 - An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings
December 2 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
December 19 - Merap volcano erupts - 1300 dead
December 24 - In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds
December 28 - Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations

British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo takes over in the Dominican Republic
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics replaces the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
Walther Bothe and H. Becker discover the neutron.
Abkhazia and Georgia, autonomous republics of the Soviet Union, are merged.
The University of Queensland starts the pitch drop experiment.
Jake paralysis outbreak occurs in United States.