1930 in the United States

1930 in the United States
Decades:	1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s
Years:	1927 1928 1929 – 1930 – 1931 1932 1933
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Events from the year 1930 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Herbert Hoover (Republican)
• Vice President: Charles Curtis (Republican)
• Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (until February 3), Charles Evans Hughes (starting February 24)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth (R-Ohio)
• Senate Majority Leader: James Eli Watson (R-Indiana)
• Congress: 71st

Events

January–March

• January 6 – The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
• January 6 – The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
• January 13 – The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
• 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.
• February 18 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when the term "planet" was officially defined. Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.
• March 6 – The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
• 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 40 years.

April–June

May 20: Chrysler Building completed

• April 6 – Jimmy Dewar invents Hostess Twinkies.
• April 21 – A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320 people.
• 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 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C..
• May 15 – Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
• May 20 – The Chrysler Building is completed, becoming the world's first man-made structure taller than 1,000 feet (305 m).
• May 30 – Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October.
• June 9 – Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.
• June 14 – An act of Congress establishes the Federal Bureau of Narcotics as a replacement for the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
• June 17 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.

July–September

• July 26 – Charles Creighton and James Hargis leave New York for Los Angeles on a roundtrip journey, driving 11,555 km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days.
• July 30 – New York station W2XBS is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers.
• July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time.
• August 6 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears.
• August 9 – Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
• September 8 – 3M introduces Scotch Tape.

October–December

• December 2 – Great Depression: U.S. 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 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.

Undated

• A Jake paralysis outbreak occurs in United States.
• W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, which is the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, is ever televised.
• 1930–1931 – Crazy Horse's lifelong friend, He Dog, is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz.

Ongoing

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
• Prohibition (1919–1933)
• Great Depression (1929–1933)
• Dust Bowl (1930–1936)

Births

• February 5 – Noah Weinberg American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah (died 2009)
• April 21 – Donald J. Tyson, businessman (died 2011)
• September 16 – Anne Francis, actress (died 2011)
• October 24 – Big Bopper, disc jockey, singer, and songwriter (died 1959)

External links

• Media related to 1930 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons