1930

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 - 1930 - 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935

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Events:

• Neutron discovered by W. Bothe and H. Becker
• Pluto discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh

Births:

• February 11 - Alevtina Koltschina Soviet skier.
• February 11 - C. H. Dearnley, organist.
• March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court Justice.
• May 31 - Clint Eastwood (actor, director, producer)
• August 5 - Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on Earth's Moon
• August 25 - Sir Sean Connery, actor
• October 10 - Harold Pinter, playwright
• Baudoin I, fifth king of Belgium

Deaths:

• July 7 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.

Sport

• Uruguay wins Football World Cup on home ground
• British Empire Games held in Hamilton, Canada

Nobel Prizes:

• Physics - Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
• Chemistry - Hans Fischer
• Medicine - Karl Landsteiner
• Literature - Sinclair Lewis
• Peace - Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) Söderblom