1930 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1930?
- January 30, 1930 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- January 31, 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
- March 12, 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
- March 13, 1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
- March 28, 1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
- April 6, 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, “With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire.” beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
- 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 27, 1930 – The 1046 ft Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
- June 9, 1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- June 16, 1930 – Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
- June 18, 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
- June 21, 1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
- July 7, 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- July 31, 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.
- August 6, 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
- 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.
- September 20, 1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
- 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.
- December 2, 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
- 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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