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List of events
Events from the year 1930 in the United States .
Incumbents
Events
May 20: Chrysler Building completed April 3 – The 2nd Academy Awards , hosted by William C. DeMille , are presented at Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles , with Harry Beaumont 's The Broadway Melody Academy Award for Best Picture . Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh 's In Old Arizona Ernst Lubitsch 's The Patriot
April 6 – Jimmy Dewar invents Hostess Twinkies .[ 2]
April 19 – Warner Bros. in the United States release their first cartoon series, called Looney Tunes 1969 .
April 21 – A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320 people.[ 3]
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 14 – Carlsbad Caverns National Park is established in New Mexico .
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 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.
June 18 - The Bears FC is founded in Miami-Florida by William "Willy" Campbell.
October 8 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the St. Louis Cardinals , 4 games to 2, to win their 5th World Series Title.
November 4 – W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois , broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, is televised.
November 5 – The 3rd Academy Awards , hosted by Conrad Nagel , are presented at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles . Lewis Milestone 's All Quiet on the Western Front Academy Award for Best Picture , with Milestone winning Best Director . The film and George Hill 's The Big House Ernst Lubitsch 's The Love Parade
November 15 – Jean Harlow has her first major film role, in Howard Hughes ' epic war film Hell's Angels
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 Jamaican ginger ("Jake") paralysis outbreak occurs across the South and Midwest.
1930–1931 – Crazy Horse ’s lifelong friend, He Dog , is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz .
A record drought in the eastern part of the nation[ 4] Upper Tract , West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3 mm) of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east of the Mississippi.[ 5] [ 6]
Ongoing
Births
January
Robert Loggia Tippi Hedren Buzz Aldrin Gene Hackman January 1 – Ty Hardin , American actor (d. 2017 )January 2
January 3
January 4
January 5
January 6
January 7
January 8
January 10 – Roy E. Disney , American film and television executive (d. 2009 )January 12 – Glenn Yarbrough , American singer (d. 2016 )January 13 – Frances Sternhagen , American actressJanuary 14 – C. Arlen Beam , American judgeJanuary 15
January 17
January 18 – James M. Bobbitt , American chemist and professorJanuary 19 – Tippi Hedren , American actressJanuary 20 – Buzz Aldrin , American astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11 and the second person to walk on the MoonJanuary 22 – David Rosen (businessman) , American businessmanJanuary 23
January 24
January 27 – Bobby Bland , African-American singer (d. 2013 )January 28
January 30
January 31 – Al De Lory , American record producer, arranger, musician (d. 2012 )
February
Robert Wagner Joanne Woodward Leon Cooper February 2 – C. M. Newton , American basketball player, coach and administrator (d. 2018 )February 3 – David Edward Foley , Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018 )February 4 – Jim Loscutoff , American basketball player (d. 2015 )February 5 – Don Goldie , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995 )February 8
February 10
February 11 – James Polshek , American architect (d. 2022 )[ 10] February 12
February 13 – Frank Buxton , American actor, television writer, author, and television director (d. 2018)February 14 – Bernie Papy Jr. , American politician (d. 1995 )February 15
February 16 – Noah Weinberg American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah (d. 2009 in Israel )February 17 – Roger Craig , American baseball player, coach and managerFebruary 18 – Pauline Bart , American sociologist (d. 2021 )[ 11] February 19 – John Frankenheimer , American film director (d. 2002 )February 22
February 24
February 25
February 26 – Robert Francis , American actor (d. 1955 )February 27
February 28 – Leon Cooper , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March
James Irwin Steve McQueen March 2
March 5 – Del Crandall , American baseball player and manager (d. 2021 )March 6 – Allison Hayes , American actress (d. 1977 )March 9 – Ornette Coleman , American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015 )March 13 – Liz Anderson , American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2011 )March 16 – Olen Lovell Burrage , American native businessman (d. 2013 )March 17 – James Irwin , American astronaut (d. 1991 )March 18 – Adam Maida , American Roman Catholic prelateMarch 19 –
March 20 – Willie Thrower , American football player (d. 2002 )March 21 – James Coco , American actor (d. 1987 )March 22
March 24 – Steve McQueen , American actor (d. 1980 )March 25 – John Keel , American journalist, urologist (d. 2009 )March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor , American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States March 27 – James Tayoun , American politician (d. 2017 )March 28
March 30 – John Astin , American actor
April
Dick Sargent Carolyn Jones
May
Mike Gravel Harvey Milk Clint Eastwood May 1
May 3
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 7 – Babe Parilli , American football player (d. 2017 )May 10
May 11
May 12 – Tom Umphlett , American baseball player and manager (d. 2012 )May 13 – Mike Gravel , American politician (d. 2021 )May 15
May 16 – Carolyn Conwell , American actress (d. 2012 )May 18 – Don L. Lind , American naval aviator, astronaut and scientist (d. 2022 )[ 18] May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry , African-American playwright (d. 1965 )[ 19] May 22
May 23 – Charles Kelman , ophthalmologist (d. 2004 )May 27
May 28 – Frank Drake , American radio astronomer, pioneer in SETI (d. 2022 )May 29 – Gerry Lenfest , American lawyer, media executive and philanthropist (d. 2018)May 30
June
Pete Conrad Jim Nabors Ross Perot June 1
June 2
June 3 – Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer (d. 1999 )[ 22] June 4 – Morgana King , American jazz singer and actress (d. 2018 )June 8 – Richard Paul Matsch , federal judge (d. 2019 )June 10 – Grace Mirabella , American editor of Vogue [ 23] June 11 – Charles B. Rangel , African-American politicianJune 12
June 14 – Charles McCarry , American novelist (d. 2019 )[ 24] June 16 – Thyrsa Frazier Svager , African American mathematician and academic (d. 1999 )June 19
June 21 – John E. McCarthy , Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018 )June 22
June 23 – Ben Speer , American singer, musician, music publisher and record company executive (d. 2017 )June 24
June 25 – James Sedin , American ice hockey playerJune 26 – Jackie Fargo , American wrestler, trainer (d. 2013 )June 27 – Ross Perot , American computer billionaire, politician (d. 2019 )June 28 – Maureen Howard , American writer, editor and lecturer (d. 2022 )June 29
June 30
July
Theodore Edgar McCarrick Jerry Vale Polly Bergen Paul Taylor July 1
July 2
July 3 – Ronnell Bright , jazz pianistJuly 4
July 5
July 7
July 8
July 9 – Buddy Bregman , musical arranger (d. 2017 )July 10 – Pete Carril , basketball coachJuly 11
July 13 – Dick Bunt , basketball playerJuly 14 – Polly Bergen , American actress (d. 2014 )July 15 – Betty Wagoner , American baseball player (d. 2006 )July 16
July 18 – Sammy Masters , singer-songwriter (d. 2013 )July 20 – Ronnie MacGilvray , American basketball player (d. 2007 )July 23 – Moon Landrieu , lawyer and politician, Mayor of New Orleans (d. 2022 )[ 26] July 29 – Paul Taylor , choreographer (d. 2018 )July 30
August
Neil Armstrong Robert Culp August 2
August 5
August 6 – Abbey Lincoln , American singer (d. 2010 )August 8 – Joan Mondale , American socialite, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2014)August 10 – Fakir Musafar , American performance artist, body modification pioneer (d. 2018 )August 13
August 14
August 15 – Selma James , American-born feminist writerAugust 16
August 21 – Frank Perry , American stage director and filmmaker (d. 1995 )August 23 – Mickey McMahan , big band musician (d. 2008 )August 28 – Ben Gazzara , American actor (d. 2012 )August 30 – Warren Buffett , American billionaire entrepreneur August 31 – Raymond J. Donovan , American businessman and politician, Secretary of Labor (d. 2021 )
September
Ray Charles John Young September 2 – Rita Riggs , American costume designer (d. 2017 )September 4 – Norman Dorsen , American civil rights activist (d. 2017 )September 7 – Sonny Rollins , African-American jazz saxophonistSeptember 9 – Frank Lucas , African-American drug traffickerSeptember 11 – Cathryn Damon , American actress (d. 1987 )September 13 – Mary Baumgartner , American female professional baseball player (d. 2018 )September 16 – Anne Francis , American actress (d. 2011 )September 17
September 23 – Ray Charles , African-American singer, musician and actor (d. 2004 )September 24 – John Young , American astronaut (d. 2018 )September 25 – Shel Silverstein , American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter and children's book author (d. 1999 )[ 27] September 26 – Philip Bosco , American actor (d. 2018 )September 28
September 29 – Billy Strange , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012 )[ 28]
October
The Big Bopper Michael Collins
November
Mildred Dresselhaus Ed White November 3
November 4 – Dick MacPherson , American football coach (d. 2017 )November 6
November 7 – Rudy Boschwitz , American politicianNovember 11 – Mildred Dresselhaus , American scientist, educator (d. 2017 )November 12 – Bob Crewe , American singer, songwriter, manager, and producer (d. 2014 )November 13
November 14 – Ed White , American astronaut (d. 1967 )[ 30] November 16 – Paul Foytack , American baseball player (d. 2021 )November 17 – Bob Mathias , American athlete (d. 2006 )November 20 – Curly Putman , American songwriter (d. 2016 )November 21 – Anthony Downs , American economist (d. 2021 )[ 31] November 22 – Owen Garriott , American astronaut (d. 2019 )November 23
November 24 – Bob Friend , American baseball player (d. 2019 )November 25 – Clarke Scholes , American freestyle swimmer (d. 2010 )November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy , American organizer of the Watergate burglaries (d. 2021 )
December
Odetta
Deaths
January 9 – Edward Bok , author (b. 1863 )[ 35] January 24 – Rebecca Latimer Felton , U.S. Senator from Georgia (b. 1835 )
February 7 – Jennie Anderson Froiseth , women's rights campaigner (b. 1849 )
February 14 – Fred Dubois , U.S. Senator from Idaho (b. 1851 )
February 27 – George Haven Putnam , author and publisher (b. 1844 )
March 8 – William Howard Taft , 27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and 10th Chief Justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930 (b. 1857 )
March 11 – Alma Webster Hall Powell , opera singer, suffragist, and inventor (b. 1869 )
March 13 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman , author (b. 1852 )[ 36] March 31 – James Marshall Head , politician and businessman (b. 1855 )
April 7 – Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo , politician (b. 1859 )
April 14 – John B. Sheridan , Irish-American sports journalist (b, 1870 in Ireland )[ 37]
May 2 – Daniel V. Asay , iceboat racer (b. 1847 )
May 18 – Gottfried Blocklinger , admiral (b. 1847 )
June 16 – Ezra Fitch , businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1865 )
July 2 – Anders Randolf , silent film actor (b. 1870 in Denmark )
August 6 – Luigi Fugazy , banker, businessman and philanthropist (b. 1839 in Italy)
September 5 – Robert Means Thompson , naval officer and president of the American Olympic Association (b. 1849 )
September 21 – John T. Dorrance , chemist (b. 1873 )
September 24 – William A. MacCorkle , lawyer, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857 )
September 28 – Daniel Guggenheim , mining magnate and philanthropist (b. 1856 )
October 2 – Gordon Stewart Northcott , serial killer (executed; b. 1906 )
October 15 – Herbert Henry Dow , industrial chemist (b. 1866 in Canada )
November 20 – William B. Hanna , sportswriter (b. 1866 )[ 38]
December 9 – Rube Foster , Negro league baseball player (b. 1879 )
December 14 – F. Richard Jones , director (b. 1893 )
December 16 – Herman Lamm , bank robber (suicide; b. 1890 in Germany )
Date unknown
See also
References
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