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*The new German chancellor [[Heinrich Brüning]] openly threatened the Reichstag with dissolution if it failed to carry out his policies. "The cabinet has been formed for the purpose of solving problems of vital importance to the country in the shortest possible time", he told the parliament. "This is our last effort to solve these problems with the present Reichstag."<ref>{{cite news |last=Schultz |first=Sigrid |authorlink=Sigrid Schultz |date=April 2, 1930 |title=New Chancellor Dares Reichstag to Oppose Him |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=9 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The new German chancellor [[Heinrich Brüning]] openly threatened the Reichstag with dissolution if it failed to carry out his policies. "The cabinet has been formed for the purpose of solving problems of vital importance to the country in the shortest possible time", he told the parliament. "This is our last effort to solve these problems with the present Reichstag."<ref>{{cite news |last=Schultz |first=Sigrid |authorlink=Sigrid Schultz |date=April 2, 1930 |title=New Chancellor Dares Reichstag to Oppose Him |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=9 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The film ''[[The Blue Angel]]'' starring [[Marlene Dietrich]] premiered at [[Ufa-Palast am Zoo|Ufa-Palast]] in Berlin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=1.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=1 |title=Tageseinträge für 1. April 1930 |last= |first= |date= |website=chroniknet |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}</ref>
*The film ''[[The Blue Angel]]'' starring [[Marlene Dietrich]] premiered at [[Ufa-Palast am Zoo|Ufa-Palast]] in Berlin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=1.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=1 |title=Tageseinträge für 1. April 1930 |last= |first= |date= |website=chroniknet |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Grace Lee Whitney]], actress and entertainer, in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] (d. 2015)
*'''Born:''' [[Grace Lee Whitney]], actress and entertainer, in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] (d. 2015)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hal Schuster|author2=Wendy Rathbone|title=Trek: The Unauthorized A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKiSLPg8bjsC|year=1995|publisher=HarperPrism|isbn=978-0-06-105435-8|page=540}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Cosima Wagner]], 92, daughter of Hungarian composer [[Franz Liszt]], wife of German composer [[Richard Wagner]] and co-founder of the [[Bayreuth Festival]]
*'''Died:''' [[Cosima Wagner]], 92, daughter of Hungarian composer [[Franz Liszt]], wife of German composer [[Richard Wagner]] and co-founder of the [[Bayreuth Festival]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Wagner|title=The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBs6AQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Vienna House|isbn=978-0-8443-0104-4|page=283}}</ref>


==[[April 2]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
==[[April 2]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
*The Japanese ferry ship ''Wakato Maru'' capsized in a gale off [[Kyushu]]. The ship was overcrowded beyond its normal capacity and about 100 lives were lost.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 3, 1930 |title=100 Die in Panic as Storm Sinks Japanese Ferry |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=5 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The Japanese ferry ship ''Wakato Maru'' capsized in a gale off [[Kyushu]]. The ship was overcrowded beyond its normal capacity and about 100 lives were lost.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 3, 1930 |title=100 Die in Panic as Storm Sinks Japanese Ferry |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=5 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*[[Haile Selassie|Ras Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael]] became the new [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] upon the death of Empress Zewditu.
*[[Haile Selassie|Ras Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael]] became the new [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] upon the death of Empress Zewditu.<ref name="Parfitt2019">{{cite book|author=Rose Parfitt|title=The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOeADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA228|date=17 January 2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-51519-8|pages=228}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Roddy Maude-Roxby]], actor, in London, England
*'''Died:''' [[Zewditu]], 53, Empress of Ethiopia<ref name="Parfitt2019"/>
*'''Died:''' [[Zewditu]], 53, Empress of Ethiopia


==[[April 3]], 1930 (Thursday)==
==[[April 3]], 1930 (Thursday)==
*The [[2nd Academy Awards]] were held in the [[Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)|Ambassador Hotel]] in Los Angeles. Unlike in the inaugural year, the winners were not announced in advance. The ceremony was also broadcast live on the radio for the first time, via the Los Angeles station [[KNX (AM)|KNX]]. ''[[The Broadway Melody]]'' won the award for Outstanding Picture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviemoviesite.com/Awards/us_academy_awards/02nd.htm |title=2nd Academy Awards Winners |website=Movie Movie |accessdate=April 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204192016/http://www.moviemoviesite.com/Awards/us_academy_awards/02nd.htm |archive-date=February 4, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The [[2nd Academy Awards]] were held in the [[Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)|Ambassador Hotel]] in Los Angeles. Unlike in the inaugural year, the winners were not announced in advance. The ceremony was also broadcast live on the radio for the first time, via the Los Angeles station [[KNX (AM)|KNX]]. ''[[The Broadway Melody]]'' won the award for Outstanding Picture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviemoviesite.com/Awards/us_academy_awards/02nd.htm |title=2nd Academy Awards Winners |website=Movie Movie |accessdate=April 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204192016/http://www.moviemoviesite.com/Awards/us_academy_awards/02nd.htm |archive-date=February 4, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The [[Montreal Canadiens]] hockey team won their third Stanley Cup, defeating the [[Boston Bruins]] 4–3 to win the [[1930 Stanley Cup Finals|Finals]] two games to none.
*The [[Montreal Canadiens]] hockey team won their third Stanley Cup, defeating the [[Boston Bruins]] 4–3 to win the [[1930 Stanley Cup Finals|Finals]] two games to none.
*'''Born:''' [[Lawton Chiles]], politician, in [[Lakeland, Florida]] (d. 1998); [[Helmut Kohl]], politician and statesman, in [[Ludwigshafen]], Germany (d. 2017); [[Wally Moon]], baseball player, in [[Bay, Arkansas]] (d. 2018)
*'''Born:''' [[Lawton Chiles]], politician, in [[Lakeland, Florida]] (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite book|author=George Douth|title=Leaders in Profile: The United States Senate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5NFLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA79|year=1972|publisher=Speer & Douth, Incorporated|pages=79}}</ref>; [[Helmut Kohl]], politician and statesman, in [[Ludwigshafen]], Germany (d. 2017)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Günter Müchler|author2=Klaus Hofmann|title=Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of German Unity: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wL2xAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Press and Information Office of the Federal Government|page=14}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Emma Albani|Dame Emma Albani]], 82, Canadian operatic soprano (b. [[1847]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michelle Labrèche-Larouche|title=Emma Albani: Victorian Diva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zzsPX_vICCEC&pg=PA166|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-77070-708-5|pages=166}}</ref>


==[[April 4]], 1930 (Friday)==
==[[April 4]], 1930 (Friday)==
*Former U.S. Secretary of State [[Frank B. Kellogg]] told a luncheon audience in Chicago that American [[isolationism]] was no longer viable. "A great nation like ours, with ten billions a year of foreign commerce, has as much to gain by the establishment of the [[Permanent Court of International Justice|World Court]] as any country in the world", he said.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 5, 1930 |title=Kellogg Defends World Court in Chicago Speech |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=3 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*Former U.S. Secretary of State [[Frank B. Kellogg]] told a luncheon audience in Chicago that American [[isolationism]] was no longer viable. "A great nation like ours, with ten billions a year of foreign commerce, has as much to gain by the establishment of the [[Permanent Court of International Justice|World Court]] as any country in the world", he said.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 5, 1930 |title=Kellogg Defends World Court in Chicago Speech |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=3 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The American Interplanetary Society was founded to conduct rocket experiments. In 1934 the organization changed its name to the [[American Rocket Society]].
*The American Interplanetary Society was founded to conduct rocket experiments. In 1934 the organization changed its name to the [[American Rocket Society]].
*'''Died:''' [[Victoria of Baden]], 67, Queen of Sweden<ref>{{cite book|author=S. Steinberg|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTPDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1360|date=29 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27079-4|pages=1360}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Victoria of Baden]], 67, Queen of Sweden


==[[April 5]], 1930 (Saturday)==
==[[April 5]], 1930 (Saturday)==
*A new law made [[Dutch language|Dutch]] the only official language of the [[Ghent University|University of Ghent]], against the wishes of Belgium's Flemish minority.<ref>Lawers, Gracienne. "The Use of Language in Education in Belgium." ''Language Rights Revisited – The Challenge of Global Migration and Communication''. Ed. Dagmar Richter, Ingo Richter, Reetta Toivanen, Iryna Ulasiuk. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2012. p. 260. {{ISBN|978-3-8305-2809-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=5.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=5 |title=Tageseinträge für 5. April 1930 |last= |first= |date= |website=chroniknet |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}</ref>
*A new law made [[Dutch language|Dutch]] the only official language of the [[Ghent University|University of Ghent]], against the wishes of Belgium's Flemish minority.<ref>Lawers, Gracienne. "The Use of Language in Education in Belgium." ''Language Rights Revisited – The Challenge of Global Migration and Communication''. Ed. Dagmar Richter, Ingo Richter, Reetta Toivanen, Iryna Ulasiuk. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2012. p. 260. {{ISBN|978-3-8305-2809-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=5.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=5 |title=Tageseinträge für 5. April 1930 |last= |first= |date= |website=chroniknet |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[F. Digby Hardy]], 62, English writer, soldier and criminal


==[[April 6]], 1930 (Sunday)==
==[[April 6]], 1930 (Sunday)==
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*The [[Order of the Red Star]] military decoration was established in the Soviet Union.
*The [[Order of the Red Star]] military decoration was established in the Soviet Union.
*The [[Twinkie]] snack cake was invented.
*The [[Twinkie]] snack cake was invented.
*'''Born:''' [[Juan Kachmanian]], professional wrestler, in [[San Jose, California]]


==[[April 7]], 1930 (Monday)==
==[[April 7]], 1930 (Monday)==
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==[[April 8]], 1930 (Tuesday)==
==[[April 8]], 1930 (Tuesday)==
*The war film ''[[Journey's End (1930 film)|Journey's End]]'' premiered at the [[Gaiety Theatre (New York City)|Gaiety Theatre]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite book |last=Holston |first=Kim R. |date=2013 |title=Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973 |url= |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |page=69 |isbn=978-0-7864-6062-5 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The war film ''[[Journey's End (1930 film)|Journey's End]]'' premiered at the [[Gaiety Theatre (New York City)|Gaiety Theatre]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite book |last=Holston |first=Kim R. |date=2013 |title=Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973 |url= |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |page=69 |isbn=978-0-7864-6062-5 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma]], in Paris, France (d. 2010)
*'''Born:''' [[Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma]], in Paris, France (d. 2010)<ref>{{cite book|author=William G. Valko|title=The Illustrated Who's who in Reigning Royalty: A History of Contemporary Monarchical Systems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfBBAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Community Press|page=142}}</ref>


==[[April 9]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
==[[April 9]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
*The [[Brunswick Corporation|Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company]] sold [[Brunswick Records]] to [[Warner Bros.]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Laird |first=Ross |date=2001 |title=Brunswick Records: New York sessions, 1916–1926 |url= |location=Westport, Connecticut |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=11 |isbn=978-0-313-31866-5 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The [[Brunswick Corporation|Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company]] sold [[Brunswick Records]] to [[Warner Bros.]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Laird |first=Ross |date=2001 |title=Brunswick Records: New York sessions, 1916–1926 |url= |location=Westport, Connecticut |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=11 |isbn=978-0-313-31866-5 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Rose Caron]], 72, French operatic soprano<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard T. Soper|title=Belgian Opera Houses and Singers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvoXAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Reprint Company|isbn=978-0-87152-516-1|page=423}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Wallace McCain]], co-founder of the [[McCain Foods]] company, in [[Florenceville, New Brunswick]], Canada (d. 2011)


==[[April 10]], 1930 (Thursday)==
==[[April 10]], 1930 (Thursday)==
*Police raided the [[Indian National Congress]] headquarters in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] and made two arrests.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 11, 1930 |title=Gandhi Wilts Under Strain of India Salt War |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=25 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*Police raided the [[Indian National Congress]] headquarters in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] and made two arrests.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 11, 1930 |title=Gandhi Wilts Under Strain of India Salt War |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=25 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Frank Lary]], baseball player, in [[Northport, Alabama]]; [[Spede Pasanen]], filmmaker, inventor and television personality, in [[Kuopio]], Finland (d. 2001)
*'''Born:''' [[Frank Lary]], baseball player, in [[Northport, Alabama]]; [[Spede Pasanen]], filmmaker, inventor and television personality, in [[Kuopio]], Finland (d. 2001)
*'''Died:''' [[Alfred Williams (poet)|Alfred Williams]], 52, English poet


==[[April 11]], 1930 (Friday)==
==[[April 11]], 1930 (Friday)==
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*Rioting was reported from [[Taranto]], Italy due to economic conditions.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 12, 1930 |title=Italian Troops Fire on Rioters; Take 280 to Jail |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=5 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*Rioting was reported from [[Taranto]], Italy due to economic conditions.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 12, 1930 |title=Italian Troops Fire on Rioters; Take 280 to Jail |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=5 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*American scientists predicted that man would land on the moon by 2050.<ref name="chronicle of the 20th c.">{{cite book |last=Mercer |first=Derrik |date=1989 |editor-last= |editor-first= |title=Chronicle of the 20th Century |url= |location=London |publisher=Chronicle Communications Ltd. |page=391 |isbn=978-0-582-03919-3 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*American scientists predicted that man would land on the moon by 2050.<ref name="chronicle of the 20th c.">{{cite book |last=Mercer |first=Derrik |date=1989 |editor-last= |editor-first= |title=Chronicle of the 20th Century |url= |location=London |publisher=Chronicle Communications Ltd. |page=391 |isbn=978-0-582-03919-3 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Anton LaVey]], occultist, in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] (d. 1997)


==[[April 12]], 1930 (Saturday)==
==[[April 12]], 1930 (Saturday)==
*Germany and Austria signed a trade agreement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=12.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=12 |title=Tageseinträge für 12. April 1930 |last= |first= |date= |website=chroniknet |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}</ref>
*Germany and Austria signed a trade agreement.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=12.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=12 |title=Tageseinträge für 12. April 1930 |last= |first= |date= |website=chroniknet |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}</ref>
*[[University of Cambridge]] won the [[The Boat Race 1930|82nd Boat Race]]. Cambridge now had an all-time record of 41–40 against [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], leading for the first time since 1863.<ref name="chronicle of the 20th c." />
*[[University of Cambridge]] won the [[The Boat Race 1930|82nd Boat Race]]. Cambridge now had an all-time record of 41–40 against [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], leading for the first time since 1863.<ref name="chronicle of the 20th c." />
*'''Born:''' [[John Landy]], Australian athlete and politician<ref>{{cite book|author=Bruce Elder|title=The A to Z of who is who in Australia's History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWBmAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Child & Associates Publishing Pty Limited|page=306}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Johnny Antonelli]], baseball player, in [[Rochester, New York]]; [[Michał Życzkowski]], technician and engineering professor, in [[Kraków]], Poland (d. 2006)


==[[April 13]], 1930 (Sunday)==
==[[April 13]], 1930 (Sunday)==
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*On [[budget day]] in the United Kingdom, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] [[Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden|Philip Snowden]] presented tax increases on income, death duties and beer.<ref>{{cite news |last=Steele |first=John |date=April 15, 1930 |title=22 1/2% of British Incomes Taken by New Tax Law |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=10 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*On [[budget day]] in the United Kingdom, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] [[Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden|Philip Snowden]] presented tax increases on income, death duties and beer.<ref>{{cite news |last=Steele |first=John |date=April 15, 1930 |title=22 1/2% of British Incomes Taken by New Tax Law |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=10 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The Reichstag approved Chancellor Brüning's series of economic bills which included farm relief and an increase in the tax on beer.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schultz |first=Sigrid |authorlink=Sigrid Schultz |date=April 15, 1930 |title=Reichstag Puts Higher Tax on Beer by 9 Votes |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=12 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The Reichstag approved Chancellor Brüning's series of economic bills which included farm relief and an increase in the tax on beer.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schultz |first=Sigrid |authorlink=Sigrid Schultz |date=April 15, 1930 |title=Reichstag Puts Higher Tax on Beer by 9 Votes |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=12 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], 36, Russian poet, playwright and actor (suicide); [[John B. Sheridan]], 60, Irish-born American sportswriter
*'''Died:''' [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], 36, Russian poet, playwright and actor (suicide)<ref>{{cite book|author=Martin Crowley|title=Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6f3V_LVlIioC&pg=PA207|year=2000|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-1432-6|pages=207}}</ref>; [[John B. Sheridan]], 60, Irish-born American sportswriter<ref>{{cite book|author=George Seldes|title=Witch Hunt: The Technique and Profits of Redbaiting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LNQUAAAAMAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Modern age books|page=88}}</ref>


==[[April 15]], 1930 (Tuesday)==
==[[April 15]], 1930 (Tuesday)==
*Riots broke out in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] over the imprisonment of Nehru and the city's mayor.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 16, 1930 |title=One Slain, Many Hurt in India's Salt Tax Riots |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*Riots broke out in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] over the imprisonment of Nehru and the city's mayor.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 16, 1930 |title=One Slain, Many Hurt in India's Salt Tax Riots |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Vigdís Finnbogadóttir]], 4th [[President of Iceland]], in [[Reykjavík]]
*'''Born:''' [[Vigdís Finnbogadóttir]], 4th [[President of Iceland]], in [[Reykjavík]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Bruce Olav Solheim|title=On Top of the World: Women's Political Leadership in Scandinavia and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rifHpr-tGFoC&pg=PA78|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31000-3|pages=78}}</ref>


==[[April 16]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
==[[April 16]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
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*First Lady [[Lou Henry Hoover]] suffered a back injury in a fall at the White House.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 17, 1930 |title=Mrs. Hoover Injures her Back Slightly in Fall at White House |url= |journal=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref> The injury was serious enough to require her to use a wheelchair during her recovery.<ref>{{cite journal |last= |first= |date=May 14, 1930 |title=Injuries Still Curb Activities of Mrs. Hoover |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*First Lady [[Lou Henry Hoover]] suffered a back injury in a fall at the White House.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 17, 1930 |title=Mrs. Hoover Injures her Back Slightly in Fall at White House |url= |journal=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref> The injury was serious enough to require her to use a wheelchair during her recovery.<ref>{{cite journal |last= |first= |date=May 14, 1930 |title=Injuries Still Curb Activities of Mrs. Hoover |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*Thuringian interior minister [[Wilhelm Frick]] of the [[Nazi Party]] introduced nationalistic new prayers to be recited in elementary schools. Liberals objected to the propagandistic content of the prayers and challenged their constitutionality in court.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lamberti |first=Marjorie |date=2004 |title=The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany |url= |location= |publisher=Bergahn Books |page=206 |isbn=978-1-57181-299-5 |accessdate= }}</ref> One line read, "I believe that thou wilt punish the betrayal of Germany and bless the actions of those who seek to free the Fatherland."<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=July 12, 1930 |title=German Schools Forbidden to Use 'Kaiser' Prayer |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=12 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*Thuringian interior minister [[Wilhelm Frick]] of the [[Nazi Party]] introduced nationalistic new prayers to be recited in elementary schools. Liberals objected to the propagandistic content of the prayers and challenged their constitutionality in court.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lamberti |first=Marjorie |date=2004 |title=The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany |url= |location= |publisher=Bergahn Books |page=206 |isbn=978-1-57181-299-5 |accessdate= }}</ref> One line read, "I believe that thou wilt punish the betrayal of Germany and bless the actions of those who seek to free the Fatherland."<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=July 12, 1930 |title=German Schools Forbidden to Use 'Kaiser' Prayer |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=12 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Herbie Mann]], jazz flautist, in [[Pecos, New Mexico]] (d. 2003)<ref>{{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Kollington - Morphine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgwKAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=MUZE|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|page=479}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Carol Bly]], author, in [[Duluth, Minnesota]] (d. 2007); [[Herbie Mann]], jazz flautist, in [[Pecos, New Mexico]] (d. 2003)


==[[April 17]], 1930 (Thursday)==
==[[April 17]], 1930 (Thursday)==
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*The [[1930 Costești wooden church fire]] took place in the small Romanian town of Costești during [[Good Friday]] services when candles set some drapery on fire.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 19, 1930 |title=144 Die; Fire and Panic End Easter Mass |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The [[1930 Costești wooden church fire]] took place in the small Romanian town of Costești during [[Good Friday]] services when candles set some drapery on fire.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 19, 1930 |title=144 Die; Fire and Panic End Easter Mass |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*A typhoon swept through [[Leyte]] in the Philippines, causing extensive damage.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 21, 1930 |title=Fear Many Dead After Typhoon Hits Philippines |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*A typhoon swept through [[Leyte]] in the Philippines, causing extensive damage.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 21, 1930 |title=Fear Many Dead After Typhoon Hits Philippines |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Jack Stivetts]], 62, American baseball player
*The BBC Radio news bulletin stated: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news." Piano music followed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm |title=1930 – Technological changes in the newsroom |work=[[BBC News]] |accessdate=March 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.cjr.org/the_kicker/and_thats_the_way_it_was_april_11.php |title=And that’s the way it was: April 18, 1930 |work=[[Columbia Journalism Review]] |date=April 18, 2013 |accessdate=March 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite av media |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010szlg |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - 90 by 90 The Full Set, 1930: No News Today |work=[[BBC Radio 4]] |date=November 12, 2012 |accessdate=March 8, 2019 |medium=audio}}</ref>
*The BBC Radio news bulletin stated: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news." Piano music followed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm |title=1930 – Technological changes in the newsroom |work=[[BBC News]] |accessdate=March 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.cjr.org/the_kicker/and_thats_the_way_it_was_april_11.php |title=And that’s the way it was: April 18, 1930 |work=[[Columbia Journalism Review]] |date=April 18, 2013 |accessdate=March 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite av media |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010szlg |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - 90 by 90 The Full Set, 1930: No News Today |work=[[BBC Radio 4]] |date=November 12, 2012 |accessdate=March 8, 2019 |medium=audio}}</ref>


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*The drama film ''[[The Divorcee]]'' starring [[Norma Shearer]] was released.<ref>{{cite book |last=Reid |first=John Howard |date=2008 |title=Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide |url= |location= |publisher=Lulu.com |page= |isbn=978-1-4357-1073-3 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The drama film ''[[The Divorcee]]'' starring [[Norma Shearer]] was released.<ref>{{cite book |last=Reid |first=John Howard |date=2008 |title=Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide |url= |location= |publisher=Lulu.com |page= |isbn=978-1-4357-1073-3 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The very first [[Warner Bros.]] cartoon short, ''[[Sinkin' in the Bathtub]]'' was released. It was the very first in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' series and introduced the character of [[Bosko]].
*The very first [[Warner Bros.]] cartoon short, ''[[Sinkin' in the Bathtub]]'' was released. It was the very first in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' series and introduced the character of [[Bosko]].
*'''Born:''' [[Dick Sargent]], actor, in [[Carmel-by-the-Sea, California]] (d. 1994)
*'''Born:''' [[Dick Sargent]], US actor, in [[Carmel-by-the-Sea, California]] (d. 1994)<ref>{{cite book|author=Claude Summers|title=The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwFuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA249|date=24 April 2012|publisher=Cleis Press|isbn=978-1-57344-882-6|pages=249}}</ref>


==[[April 20]], 1930 (Sunday)==
==[[April 20]], 1930 (Sunday)==
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*A fire at the [[Ohio Penitentiary]] in [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]] killed 320 inmates. It remains the worst prison fire in U.S. history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.genealogybug.net/ohio_alhn/crime/ohio_pen_fire.html |title=A List of Victims of the Ohio Penitentiary Fire |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 }}</ref>
*A fire at the [[Ohio Penitentiary]] in [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]] killed 320 inmates. It remains the worst prison fire in U.S. history.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.genealogybug.net/ohio_alhn/crime/ohio_pen_fire.html |title=A List of Victims of the Ohio Penitentiary Fire |last= |first= |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 }}</ref>
*The [[Presbyterian polity#General assembly|Presbyterian General Assembly]] publicized the findings of a commission appointed to investigate marriage and divorce in America. One section of the study blamed rising divorce rates on cultural tendencies such as [[jazz]] due to its "primeval jungle tom tom" which "inspires contortions of dance unfitting to incipient rheumatics", as well as stage plays and films in which adultery was "the fashionable theme".<ref>{{cite news |last=Evans |first=John |date=April 22, 1930 |title=Sex Paganism Imperils Home, Churchmen Say |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The [[Presbyterian polity#General assembly|Presbyterian General Assembly]] publicized the findings of a commission appointed to investigate marriage and divorce in America. One section of the study blamed rising divorce rates on cultural tendencies such as [[jazz]] due to its "primeval jungle tom tom" which "inspires contortions of dance unfitting to incipient rheumatics", as well as stage plays and films in which adultery was "the fashionable theme".<ref>{{cite news |last=Evans |first=John |date=April 22, 1930 |title=Sex Paganism Imperils Home, Churchmen Say |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Silvana Mangano]], actress, in Rome, Italy (d. 1989)
*'''Born:''' [[Silvana Mangano]], actress, in Rome, Italy (d. 1989)<ref>{{cite news | title=Mort de Silvana Mangano La magicienne | newspaper=[[Le Monde]] | date=18 December 1989 | page=10}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Robert Bridges]], 85, English poet<ref>{{cite book|author=Lee Templin Hamilton|title=Robert Bridges: An Annotated Bibliography, 1873-1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiOgjZY4dGMC&pg=PA132|year=1991|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-364-6|pages=132}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Robert Bridges]], 85, English poet


==[[April 22]], 1930 (Tuesday)==
==[[April 22]], 1930 (Tuesday)==
*The [[London Naval Treaty]] was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, limiting the tonnage of warships until 1936. France and Italy were exempted from the section that set limitations on total tonnage, but it was hoped that they would sign on to the full treaty at a later date.<ref>{{cite news |last=Steele |first=John |date=April 23, 1930 |title=Navy Envoys Off for U.S. |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|pages=1, 8 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The [[London Naval Treaty]] was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, limiting the tonnage of warships until 1936. France and Italy were exempted from the section that set limitations on total tonnage, but it was hoped that they would sign on to the full treaty at a later date.<ref>{{cite news |last=Steele |first=John |date=April 23, 1930 |title=Navy Envoys Off for U.S. |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|pages=1, 8 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*57 revolutionaries who participated in the Chittagong raid were surrounded on the Jalalabad range by government forces. 64 British troops and 11 revolutionaries were killed in the ensuing battle.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sen |first=S.N. |date=2006 |title=History: Modern India |url= |location=Delhi |publisher=New Age Publishers |page=193 |isbn=978-81-224-1774-6 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*57 revolutionaries who participated in the Chittagong raid were surrounded on the Jalalabad range by government forces. 64 British troops and 11 revolutionaries were killed in the ensuing battle.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sen |first=S.N. |date=2006 |title=History: Modern India |url= |location=Delhi |publisher=New Age Publishers |page=193 |isbn=978-81-224-1774-6 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Jeppe Aakjær]], 63, Danish poet and novelist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | editor-last = Hoiberg | editor-first = Dale H. | encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica | title = Aakjaer, Jeppe | edition = 15th | year = 2010 | publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. | volume = I: A-Ak - Bayes | location = Chicago, Illinois | isbn = 978-1-59339-837-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency }}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Jeppe Aakjær]], 63, Danish poet and novelist


==[[April 23]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
==[[April 23]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
*The [[Chicago Crime Commission]] labeled 28 men as "[[Public enemy|public enemies]]", popularizing the use of that term in the general lexicon. [[Al Capone]] was named "Public Enemy Number 1". Other names on the list included [[Terry Druggan]], [[Jack McGurn]], [[Bugs Moran]], [[Joseph Saltis]] and [[Jack Zuta]].<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 24, 1930 |title=List 28 as "Public Enemies" |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|pages=1, 8 |accessdate= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Girardin |first1=G. Russell |last2=Helmer |first2=William J. |date=2005 |title=Dillinger: The Untold Story |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253216335/page/288 |location=Bloomington, Indiana |publisher=Indiana University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253216335/page/288 288] |isbn=978-0-253-21633-5 |accessdate= |url-access=registration }}</ref>
*The [[Chicago Crime Commission]] labeled 28 men as "[[Public enemy|public enemies]]", popularizing the use of that term in the general lexicon. [[Al Capone]] was named "Public Enemy Number 1". Other names on the list included [[Terry Druggan]], [[Jack McGurn]], [[Bugs Moran]], [[Joseph Saltis]] and [[Jack Zuta]].<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 24, 1930 |title=List 28 as "Public Enemies" |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|pages=1, 8 |accessdate= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Girardin |first1=G. Russell |last2=Helmer |first2=William J. |date=2005 |title=Dillinger: The Untold Story |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253216335/page/288 |location=Bloomington, Indiana |publisher=Indiana University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253216335/page/288 288] |isbn=978-0-253-21633-5 |accessdate= |url-access=registration }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Alan Oppenheimer]], actor, in New York City


==[[April 24]], 1930 (Thursday)==
==[[April 24]], 1930 (Thursday)==
*[[Edda Mussolini]] and Count [[Galeazzo Ciano]] were married at the Church of San Giuseppe in Rome.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 24, 1930 |title=Il Duce's Daughter is Bride of Count |url= | work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |publisher= |page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*[[Edda Mussolini]] and Count [[Galeazzo Ciano]] were married at the Church of San Giuseppe in Rome, Italy.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 24, 1930 |title=Il Duce's Daughter is Bride of Count |url= | work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |publisher= |page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Richard Donner]], director and producer, in [[the Bronx]], [[New York (state)|New York]]; [[José Sarney]], 31st [[President of Brazil]], in [[Pinheiro, Maranhão]]
*'''Born:''' [[José Sarney]], 31st [[President of Brazil]], in [[Pinheiro, Maranhão]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Alexander Hopkins McDannald|title=The Americana Annual: An Encyclopedia of Current Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbIcAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Americana corporation|page=131|isbn=9780717202171}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Adele Ritchie]], 55, American comic opera singer, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after fatally shooting set designer Doris Miller.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mrs. Guy Bates Post and Hostess Found Dead in Home. Believed Former Actress, Adele Ritchie, Killed Friend and Then Herself|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/04/25/archives/mrs-guy-bates-post-and-hostess-found-shot-dead-in-home-believed.html|quote=Mrs. Guy Bates Post, the former Adele Ritchie, a stage star of two decades ago, and Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, formerly of Chicago, were found shot dead in the fashionable bungalow of Mrs. Palmer here late ...|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 25, 1930|accessdate=2013-12-22}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Adele Ritchie]], 55, American comic opera singer (murder-suicide)


==[[April 25]], 1930 (Friday)==
==[[April 25]], 1930 (Friday)==
*[[Ralph Capone]] was found guilty on four counts of tax fraud.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 26, 1930 |title=Gangster Capone to Prison |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*In the United States, [[Ralph Capone]] was found guilty on four counts of tax fraud.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=April 26, 1930 |title=Gangster Capone to Prison |url= | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Paul Mazursky]], film director, screenwriter and actor, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]] (d. 2014)
*'''Born:''' [[Paul Mazursky]], US film director, screenwriter and actor, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]] (d. 2014)<ref>Tugend, Tom [http://www.jewishjournal.com/obituaries/article/paul_mazursky_filmmaker_84 Jewish Journal: "Paul Mazursky, filmmaker, 84"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008151120/http://www.jewishjournal.com/obituaries/article/paul_mazursky_filmmaker_84 |date=2015-10-08 }} ''Jewish Journal'' (July 9, 2014)</ref>


==[[April 26]], 1930 (Saturday)==
==[[April 26]], 1930 (Saturday)==
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*The [[Independence, Kansas]] baseball team of the Class C Western Association hosted the first regular season [[night game]] in organized baseball history. The visiting [[Muskogee, Oklahoma|Muskogee]] Chiefs beat the Independence Producers under the lights by a score of 13–3 before a crowd of 1,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://research.sabr.org/journals/under-the-lights |title=Under the Lights |last=Eddleton |first=Oscar |date= |website=[[Society for American Baseball Research]] |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Prager |first=Joshua |date=2008 |title=The Echoing Green |url=https://archive.org/details/echoinggreen00josh|url-access=registration |location= |publisher=Vintage Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/echoinggreen00josh/page/39 39] |isbn=978-0-307-38933-6 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*The [[Independence, Kansas]] baseball team of the Class C Western Association hosted the first regular season [[night game]] in organized baseball history. The visiting [[Muskogee, Oklahoma|Muskogee]] Chiefs beat the Independence Producers under the lights by a score of 13–3 before a crowd of 1,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://research.sabr.org/journals/under-the-lights |title=Under the Lights |last=Eddleton |first=Oscar |date= |website=[[Society for American Baseball Research]] |publisher= |accessdate=April 18, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Prager |first=Joshua |date=2008 |title=The Echoing Green |url=https://archive.org/details/echoinggreen00josh|url-access=registration |location= |publisher=Vintage Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/echoinggreen00josh/page/39 39] |isbn=978-0-307-38933-6 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*A [[solar eclipse]] occurred [[Solar eclipse of April 28, 1930|on this day]], with the path of totality passing through the northwestern United States and across central and eastern Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=19300428 |title=Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 1930 April 28 |work=[[NASA]] |accessdate=March 8, 2019}}</ref>
*A [[solar eclipse]] occurred [[Solar eclipse of April 28, 1930|on this day]], with the path of totality passing through the northwestern United States and across central and eastern Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=19300428 |title=Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 1930 April 28 |work=[[NASA]] |accessdate=March 8, 2019}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[James Baker]], attorney and government official, in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]; [[Carolyn Jones]], actress, in [[Amarillo, Texas]] (d. 1983); [[Richard C. Sarafian]], director and actor, in New York City (d. 2013)
*'''Born:''' [[James Baker]], US attorney and government official, in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Biographies of the Secretaries of State: James Addison Baker III |url = https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/baker-james-addison |publisher=U.S. Department of State, [[Office of the Historian]] |access-date=November 17, 2015 }}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Charles Grandmougin]], 80, French poet and playwright
*'''Died:''' [[Charles Grandmougin]], 80, French poet and playwright<ref>{{cite book|author=Graham Johnson|title=Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fS8rDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA120|date=5 July 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-56611-7|pages=120–}}</ref>


==[[April 29]], 1930 (Tuesday)==
==[[April 29]], 1930 (Tuesday)==
*Film producer and executive [[David O. Selznick]] married socialite [[Irene Mayer Selznick|Irene Mayer]] (daughter of film producer [[Louis B. Mayer]]) in a simple ceremony at Mayer's house.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eyman |first=Scott |date=2005 |title=Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer |url=https://archive.org/details/lionofhollywoodl00eyma|url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=[https://archive.org/details/lionofhollywoodl00eyma/page/162 162] |isbn=978-1-4391-0791-1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*Film producer and executive [[David O. Selznick]] married socialite [[Irene Mayer Selznick|Irene Mayer]] (daughter of film producer [[Louis B. Mayer]]) in a simple ceremony at Mayer's house in Hollywood, United States.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eyman |first=Scott |date=2005 |title=Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer |url=https://archive.org/details/lionofhollywoodl00eyma|url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=[https://archive.org/details/lionofhollywoodl00eyma/page/162 162] |isbn=978-1-4391-0791-1 |accessdate= }}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Jean Rochefort]], actor, in Paris, France (d. 2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://parismatch.be/actualites/people/80155/jean-rochefort-la-mort-de-lelegant-du-cinema-francais|title=Jean Rochefort, la mort de l'élégant du cinéma français|date=2017-10-09|website=parismatch.be|first1=Yannick |last1=Vely |language=fr|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Jean Rochefort]], actor, in Paris, France


==[[April 30]], 1930 (Wednesday)==
==[[April 30]], 1930 (Wednesday)==

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The following events occurred in April 1930:

April 1, 1930 (Tuesday)

April 2, 1930 (Wednesday)

April 3, 1930 (Thursday)

April 4, 1930 (Friday)

  • Former U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg told a luncheon audience in Chicago that American isolationism was no longer viable. "A great nation like ours, with ten billions a year of foreign commerce, has as much to gain by the establishment of the World Court as any country in the world", he said.[11]
  • The American Interplanetary Society was founded to conduct rocket experiments. In 1934 the organization changed its name to the American Rocket Society.
  • Died: Victoria of Baden, 67, Queen of Sweden[12]

April 5, 1930 (Saturday)

April 6, 1930 (Sunday)

April 7, 1930 (Monday)

April 8, 1930 (Tuesday)

April 9, 1930 (Wednesday)

April 10, 1930 (Thursday)

April 11, 1930 (Friday)

  • The Tokyo Stock Exchange was suspended early for the day due to a selling panic.[23]
  • Rioting was reported from Taranto, Italy due to economic conditions.[24]
  • American scientists predicted that man would land on the moon by 2050.[25]

April 12, 1930 (Saturday)

April 13, 1930 (Sunday)

  • 500,000 Indians held an orderly demonstration in Bombay, illegally making salt and throwing a monstrous effigy representing the salt tax into the sea.[28]

April 14, 1930 (Monday)

April 15, 1930 (Tuesday)

April 16, 1930 (Wednesday)

  • Britain and the Soviet Union signed a new trade pact granting each other most favoured nation status.[36]
  • First Lady Lou Henry Hoover suffered a back injury in a fall at the White House.[37] The injury was serious enough to require her to use a wheelchair during her recovery.[38]
  • Thuringian interior minister Wilhelm Frick of the Nazi Party introduced nationalistic new prayers to be recited in elementary schools. Liberals objected to the propagandistic content of the prayers and challenged their constitutionality in court.[39] One line read, "I believe that thou wilt punish the betrayal of Germany and bless the actions of those who seek to free the Fatherland."[40]
  • Born: Herbie Mann, jazz flautist, in Pecos, New Mexico (d. 2003)[41]

April 17, 1930 (Thursday)

  • 27 Indian independence demonstrators were sentenced for breaking the salt laws, including Mahatma Gandhi's son Devdas, who received three months imprisonment. Mahatma Gandhi urged his followers to continue nonviolent forms of protest, saying that riots like the one in Calcutta "will harm our struggle."[42]
  • The Paraguayan football club Club Sportivo San Lorenzo was founded.

April 18, 1930 (Friday)

  • The Chittagong armoury raid occurred when Indian revolutionaries led by Surya Sen raided an armoury in the Bengal province of British India, seizing it and setting it on fire. Martial law was proclaimed and troops were called out to quell the uprising.[43][44]
  • The 1930 Costești wooden church fire took place in the small Romanian town of Costești during Good Friday services when candles set some drapery on fire.[45]
  • A typhoon swept through Leyte in the Philippines, causing extensive damage.[46]
  • The BBC Radio news bulletin stated: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news." Piano music followed.[47][48][49]

April 19, 1930 (Saturday)

April 20, 1930 (Sunday)

April 21, 1930 (Monday)

April 22, 1930 (Tuesday)

  • The London Naval Treaty was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, limiting the tonnage of warships until 1936. France and Italy were exempted from the section that set limitations on total tonnage, but it was hoped that they would sign on to the full treaty at a later date.[60]
  • 57 revolutionaries who participated in the Chittagong raid were surrounded on the Jalalabad range by government forces. 64 British troops and 11 revolutionaries were killed in the ensuing battle.[61]
  • Died: Jeppe Aakjær, 63, Danish poet and novelist[62]

April 23, 1930 (Wednesday)

April 24, 1930 (Thursday)

April 25, 1930 (Friday)

April 26, 1930 (Saturday)

April 27, 1930 (Sunday)

April 28, 1930 (Monday)

April 29, 1930 (Tuesday)

April 30, 1930 (Wednesday)

  • Italy decreed that its naval construction program for the next year would consist of 29 new ships totalling 42,900 tons, an increase of 12,000 tons over the previous year.[81]
  • The Dutch football club Ter Leede was founded.

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  2. ^ "Tageseinträge für 1. April 1930". chroniknet (in German). Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  3. ^ Hal Schuster; Wendy Rathbone (1995). Trek: The Unauthorized A-Z. HarperPrism. p. 540. ISBN 978-0-06-105435-8.
  4. ^ Richard Wagner (1972). The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli. Vienna House. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-8443-0104-4.
  5. ^ "100 Die in Panic as Storm Sinks Japanese Ferry". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 3, 1930. p. 5.
  6. ^ a b Rose Parfitt (17 January 2019). The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance. Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-1-316-51519-8.
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  9. ^ Günter Müchler; Klaus Hofmann (1992). Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of German Unity: A Biography. Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. p. 14.
  10. ^ Michelle Labrèche-Larouche (1 January 2001). Emma Albani: Victorian Diva. Dundurn. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-77070-708-5.
  11. ^ "Kellogg Defends World Court in Chicago Speech". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 5, 1930. p. 3.
  12. ^ S. Steinberg (29 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1950. Springer. p. 1360. ISBN 978-0-230-27079-4.
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  17. ^ "Soviet Seeks Supermen, Forms Physical Culture Ministry". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 7, 1930. p. 3.
  18. ^ Holston, Kim R. (2013). Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-7864-6062-5.
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  22. ^ "Gandhi Wilts Under Strain of India Salt War". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 11, 1930. p. 25.
  23. ^ "Stock Exchange in Tokio Reopens; Panic Averted". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 12, 1930. p. 5.
  24. ^ "Italian Troops Fire on Rioters; Take 280 to Jail". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 12, 1930. p. 5.
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