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1930

1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday.

Years:
1927 1928 1929 - 1930 - 1931 1932 1933

Decades:
1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1930 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science
Other topics
Australia - Canada - Ireland - South Africa - Sport
Category:1930 births - Category:1930 deaths

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

Events

January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
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 food products in 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 4-5 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again
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 foreign minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rheinland. They depart by June 30
May 20 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives to 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 to Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures - they part ways by October

June 9 - Chicago Tribune journalist Alfred Lingle 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 30 - Uruguay beat Argentina in the first football 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 - Josef Felix Urileu makes a successful military coup in Argentina
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
September 16 - overthrow of Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.
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 2 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
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 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.

1930 in aviation
1930 in film
- All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 in literature
1930 in music
1930 in rail transport
- General Motors acquires both Electro-Motive Corporation and Winton Engine Company and combines them to form General Motors Electro-Motive Division.
1930 in sports
- Uruguay wins Football World Cup on home ground
- British Empire Games held in Hamilton, Canada
1930 in television
- May 22 - An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
- November - W9XAP in Chicago broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, which was apparently the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, was ever televised
- December 7 - W1XAV in Boston broadcasts video from a CBS radio program, The Fox Trappers orchestra program. The broadcast also included the first television commercial (for I. J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show)
- The BBC begins regular television transmission