Years :	1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
Years:	1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
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1930 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation - Meteorology - Rail transport - Radio - Science
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Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths

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

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel prizes

Events

January-February

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

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-May

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.
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-August

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 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-December

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

Unknown dates

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.

Births

January-February

January 2 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
January 12 - Jennifer Johnston, Irish writer
January 20 - Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
January 23 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 26 - John Straffen, British serial killer
January 27 - Bobby Bland, American singer
January 30 - Gene Hackman, American actor
February 22 - Marni Nixon, American singer and actress
February 27 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
February 27 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
February 28 - Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

March

March 3 - Heiner Geißler, German politician
March 6 - Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
March 6 - Lorin Maazel, French-born conductor
March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
March 10 - Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer
March 15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 17 - James Irwin, astronaut (d. 1991)
March 19 - Ornette Coleman, American musician
March 20 - Willie Thrower, American football player
March 22 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist
March 22 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
March 24 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
March 24 - Steve McQueen, American actor, film director, and producer (d. 1980)
March 25 - John Keel, American author
March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
March 27 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 28 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 30 - John Astin, American actor
March 30 - Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer
March 30 - Peter Marshall, American game show host

April

April 3 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
April 8 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
April 10 - Pertti "Spede" Olavi Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
April 11 - Anton LaVey, American religious leader (d. 1997)
April 15 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
April 16 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003)
April 21 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
April 25 - Paul Mazursky, American director and writer
April 29 - Jean Rochefort, French actor

May-August

May 4 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
May 8 - Heather Harper, Irish soprano
May 9 - Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
May 15 - Jasper Johns, American painter
May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
May 21 - Malcolm Fraser, twenty-second Prime Minister of Australia
May 22 - John Barth, American writer
May 22 - Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978)
May 31 - Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June 2 - Charles Conrad, astronaut (d. 1999)
June 8 - Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
June 9 - Monique Serf, French musician (d. 1997)
June 12 - Jim Nabors, American actor, musician, and comedian
June 17 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
June 19 - Gena Rowlands, American actress
June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
June 27 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
July 2 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
July 3 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
July 4 - George Steinbrenner, baseball team owner
July 11 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
July 15 - Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
July 25 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
July 25 - Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricket captains (d. 1985)
August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
August 5 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
August 12 - George Soros, Hungarian-born businessman
August 17 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
August 21 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor
August 30 - Warren Buffett, American investor

September-December

September 3 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
September 7 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
September 16 - Anne Francis, American actress
September 25 - Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, and humorist (d. 1999)
September 26 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
September 30 - Ray Charles, American singer and musician (d. 2004)
October 1 - Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
October 5 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
October 5 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
October 5 - Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 6 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
October 8 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
October 10 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 10 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
October 11 - Sam Johnson, American politician
October 17 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
October 30 - Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
October 30 - Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d. 2002)
October 31 - Michael Collins, astronaut
November 4 - Doris Roberts, American actress
November 14 - Edward White, astronaut (d. 1967)
November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
November 24 - Bob Friend, baseball player
December 1 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 6 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia {d. 2000)
December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
December 15 - Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
December 21 - Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official

Date unknown

Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (d. 1996)
Barney Glaser, American sociologist

Deaths

February 23 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)
February 27 - Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (b. 1898)
March 2 - D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)
March 8 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)
March 19 - Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
March 24 - Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)
April 2 - Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
April 21 - Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
April 22 - Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (b. 1866)
May 13 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1861)
May 25 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
June 5 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author (b. 1859)
July 28 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1862)
August 15 - Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b. 1859)
August 29 - William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest (b. 1844)
September 24 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
October 26 - Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872)
November 4 - Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877)
November 5 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
December 9 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, Negro League baseball player
December 9 - Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian painter (b. 1860)
December 13 - Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

Nobel prizes

Physics - Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chemistry - Hans Fischer
Physiology or Medicine - Karl Landsteiner
Literature - Sinclair Lewis
Peace - Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan Söderblom

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Contents

Events

January-February

March

April-May

June-August

September-December

Unknown dates

Births

January-February

March

April

May-August

September-December

Date unknown

Deaths

Nobel prizes