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1930




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 12 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march protest march to the
     sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly
     on salt
   * March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and
     Ankara
   * March 29 - Heinrich BrŸning 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 22 - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the
     London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting
     shipbuilding.
   * May 15 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first
     airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago,
     Illinois).
   * May 24 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first
     woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the
     11,000 mile flight).
   * July 7 - Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is
     started.
   * 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.

   * Neutron discovered by W. Bothe and H. Becker

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1930 in film
        o All Quiet on the Western Front
   * 1930 in literature
   * 1930 in music
   * 1930 in sports
        o Uruguay wins Football World Cup on home ground
        o British Empire Games held in Hamilton, Canada
   * 1930 in television
        o 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.
        o November - W9XAP in Chicago broadcasts the U.S. senatorial
          election returns, which was apparently the first time a senatorial
          race, with non-stop vote tallys, was ever televised
        o 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)
        o The BBC begins regular television transmission

Births

   * January 3 - Robert Loggia, actor
   * January 4 - Don Shula, American football coach
   * January 10 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
   * January 11 - Rod Taylor, Australian actor
   * January 12 - Glenn Yarborough, singer, songwriter
   * January 13 - Frances Sternhagen, actress
   * January 20 - Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
   * January 23 - Derek Walcott, author
   * January 25 - Dean Jones, actor
   * January 30 - Gene Hackman, actor
   * February 3 - Gillian Ayres, painter
   * February 10 - Robert Wagner, actor
   * February 11 - Alevtina Koltschina Soviet skier.
   * February 11 - C. H. Dearnley, organist.
   * February 13 - Ernst Fuchs, painter and graphic artist
   * February 17 - Ruth Barbara Rendell, writer
   * February 27 - Joanne Woodward, actress
   * March 3 - Heiner Gei§ler, politician
   * March 6 - Lorin Maazel, opera conductor
   * March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
   * March 19 - Ornette Coleman, musician
   * March 22 - Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist
   * March 22 - Pat Robertson, televangelist
   * March 24 - Steve McQueen, film director and producer (+ 1980)
   * March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court Justice.
   * March 27 - David Janssen, actor (+ 1980)
   * March 30 - John Astin, actor
   * April 3 - Helmut Kohl, German chancellor
   * April 25 - Paul Mazursky, director, writer
   * May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster
   * May 15 - Jasper Johns, painter
   * May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry, playwright (+ 1965)
   * May 22 - Harvey Milk, politician, civil rights activist (+ 1978)
   * May 31 - Clint Eastwood (actor, director, producer)
   * June 27 - Ross Perot, billionaire and politician
   * July 4 - George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees
   * August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
   * August 5 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut, first person to walk on Earth's
     Moon
   * August 21 - Princess Margaret, sister to Queen Elizabeth II of England
   * August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
   * September 7 - Baudouin I of Belgium
   * October 1 - Sir Richard Harris, actor
   * October 5 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
   * October 8 - Toru Takemitsu, composer (+ 1996)
   * October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
   * October 30 - Timothy Findley, canadian author
   * November 14 - Edward White, American astronaut
   * November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
   * December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor

Deaths

   * February 23 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue, composer
   * March 8 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief
     Justice of the United States
   * March 24 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter
   * April 1 - Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia
   * May 13 - Fridtjof Nansen, explorer
   * June 5 - Pascin, the "Prince of Montparnasse"
   * July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock
     Holmes.
   * December 9 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, pioneer of Negro League baseball

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
   * Chemistry - Hans Fischer
   * Medicine - Karl Landsteiner
   * Literature - Sinclair Lewis
   * Peace - Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) Sšderblom

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