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 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
- April 2, 1930 – After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
- May 1, 1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
- May 24, 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
- May 28, 1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
- June 18, 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
- July 7, 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- 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 31, 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
- August 9, 1930 – Betty Boop made her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.
- August 16, 1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
- September 8, 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
- September 12, 1930 – Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower’s XI against the Australians.
- 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 3, 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- November 11, 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
- November 18, 1930 – Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Sōka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
- 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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