1930

1930 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1930; MCMXXX
Ab urbe condita	2683
Armenian calendar	1379; ԹՎ ՌՅՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	6680
Baháʼí calendar	86–87
Balinese saka calendar	1851–1852
Bengali calendar	1337
Berber calendar	2880
British Regnal year	20 Geo. 5 – 21 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2474
Burmese calendar	1292
Byzantine calendar	7438–7439
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake); 4627 or 4420; — to —; 庚午年 (Metal Horse); 4628 or 4421
Coptic calendar	1646–1647
Discordian calendar	3096
Ethiopian calendar	1922–1923
Hebrew calendar	5690–5691
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1986–1987
- Shaka Samvat	1851–1852
- Kali Yuga	5030–5031
Holocene calendar	11930
Igbo calendar	930–931
Iranian calendar	1308–1309
Islamic calendar	1348–1349
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 5; (昭和５年)
Javanese calendar	1860–1861
Juche calendar	19
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4263
Minguo calendar	ROC 19; 民國19年
Nanakshahi calendar	462
Thai solar calendar	2472–2473
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年; (female Earth-Snake); 2056 or 1675 or 903; — to —; 阳金马年; (male Iron-Horse); 2057 or 1676 or 904

1930 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1930; MCMXXX
Ab urbe condita	2683
Armenian calendar	1379; ԹՎ ՌՅՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	6680
Baháʼí calendar	86–87
Balinese saka calendar	1851–1852
Bengali calendar	1337
Berber calendar	2880
British Regnal year	20 Geo. 5 – 21 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2474
Burmese calendar	1292
Byzantine calendar	7438–7439
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake); 4627 or 4420; — to —; 庚午年 (Metal Horse); 4628 or 4421
Coptic calendar	1646–1647
Discordian calendar	3096
Ethiopian calendar	1922–1923
Hebrew calendar	5690–5691
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1986–1987
- Shaka Samvat	1851–1852
- Kali Yuga	5030–5031
Holocene calendar	11930
Igbo calendar	930–931
Iranian calendar	1308–1309
Islamic calendar	1348–1349
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 5; (昭和５年)
Javanese calendar	1860–1861
Juche calendar	19
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4263
Minguo calendar	ROC 19; 民國19年
Nanakshahi calendar	462
Thai solar calendar	2472–2473
Tibetan calendar	阴土蛇年; (female Earth-Snake); 2056 or 1675 or 903; — to —; 阳金马年; (male Iron-Horse); 2057 or 1676 or 904

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century; 20th century ; 21st century;
Decades:	1910s; 1920s; 1930s ; 1940s; 1950s;
Years:	1927; 1928; 1929; 1930 ; 1931; 1932; 1933;

1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar).

Events

January

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January 31: Scotch Tape is marketed.

January 6 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
January 13 - The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
January 14 - Ballymena, Northern Ireland, Annie Mooney is born.
January 26 - The Indian National Congress declares 26th January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).
January 30 - the world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR
January 31 - The 3M company markets Scotch Tape.

February

February 18
- While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
- Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an ballon.

March

March 2 - Mohandas Gandhi informs British viceroy of India that civil disobedience would begin nine days later
March 5 - Danish painter Einar Wegener goes through a sexual reassignment surgery and takes the name Lili Elbe
March 6 - first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
March 8 - Former United States President and current Chief Justice William Howard Taft dies in Washington, D.C.
March 12 - Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt - more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5
March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
March 29 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
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 forty years

April

April 5 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
April 6 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
April 21 - Fire in Ohio State Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320.
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

May 4/May 5 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again.
May 6 - The Great Salmas Earthquake in Iran; 7.3 on the Richter Scale and killed 4,000 people.
May 10 - National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded.
May 15 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
May 17 - French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland. They depart by June 30.
May 20 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives in New York City.
May 24 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
May 30 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October.

June

June 9 - Chicago Tribune journalist Alfred Liddle is shot in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Liddle is later found to have had contacts to organized crime.
June 17
- U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
June 21 - One-year conscription comes into force in France.

July

July 5 - The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican Christian bishops opens. This conference approved the use of artificial birth control in limited circumstances, marking a controversial turning point in Christian views on contraception.
July 7
- Lapua Movement marches in Helsinki, Finland.
- Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is started.
July 13 - The first Football World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.
July 26 - Charles Creighton and James Hargis of Missouri begin their return journey to Los Angeles - driving 11 555 km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days.
July 28 - Richard B. Bennett defeats William Lyon Mackenzie King in federal elections and becomes the Prime Minister of Canada.
July 30 - Uruguay beat Argentina 4-2 in the first soccer World Cup Final.
July 31 - The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.

August

August 7 - Richard Bedford Bennett becomes Canada's eleventh prime minister.
August 9 - Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
August 12 - Turkish troops move into Persia to fight Kurdish insurgents.
August 27 - Military junta takes over in Peru.

September

September 6 - José Félix Uriburu makes a successful military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.
September 8 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
September 12 - Wilfred Rhodes end his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
September 14 - National socialists win 107 seats in German parliament - 18.3% of all the votes makes them second largest party.

October

October 5 - British Airship R105 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
October 24 - Brazil - Revolution of 1930 by Getúlio Dornelles Vargas.

November

November 1 - William Joseph Dess is born in New Castle, PA to Joseph and Mary Dess.
November 2 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
November 25 - An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.

December

December 2 - Great Depression: US 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 19 - Merapi volcano erupts - 1300 dead.
December 24 - In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
December 28 - Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations.
December 29 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.

Unknown dates

British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo takes over in the Dominican Republic
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics replaces the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
Walther Bothe and H. Becker discover the neutron.
Abkhazia and Georgia, autonomous republics of the Soviet Union, are merged.
The University of Queensland starts the pitch drop experiment.
Jake paralysis outbreak occurs in United States.
Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidt Camera.[1]
Turkish women given the right to elect.

Births

January-February

January 2 - Julius LaRosa, American singer
January 4 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
January 6 - Professor Toru Tanaka, Asian-American actor (d. 2000)
January 6 - Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
January 10 - Roy E. Disney, American film and television executive
January 12 - Jennifer Johnston, Irish writer
January 20 - Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut
January 23 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 26 - John Straffen, British serial killer
January 27 - Bobby Bland, American singer
January 30 - Gene Hackman, American actor

February 10 - Robert Wagner, American actor
February 22 - Marni Nixon, American singer and actress
February 27 - Joanne Woodward, American actress
February 27 - Peter Stone, American writer (d. 2003)
February 28 - Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

March-April

March 3 - Heiner Geißler, German politician
March 6 - Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
March 6 - Lorin Maazel, French-born conductor
March 7 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
March 10 - Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer
March 15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 17 - James Irwin, astronaut (d. 1991)
March 19 - Ornette Coleman, American musician
March 20 - Willie Thrower, American football player
March 22 - Pat Robertson, American televangelist
March 22 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist
March 24 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
March 24 - Steve McQueen, American actor, film director, and producer (d. 1980)
March 25 - John Keel, American author
March 26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981-2006)
March 27 - David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 28 - Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 30 - John Astin, American actor
March 30 - Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer
March 30 - Peter Marshall, American game show host

April 3 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator and Governor of Florida (d. 1998)
April 3 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
April 8 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
April 10 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
April 11 - Anton LaVey, American religious leader (d. 1997)
April 12 - Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (d. 2006)
April 15 - Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
April 16 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003)
April 19 - Dick Sargent, American actor and gay activist (d. 1994)
April 21 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
April 24 - Richard Donner, American film director and producer
April 25 - Paul Mazursky, American director and writer
April 28 - Carolyn Jones, American actress
April 29 - Jean Rochefort, French actor

May-June

May 3 - Bob Havens, American musician
May 4 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
May 8 - Heather Harper, Irish soprano
May 9 - Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
May 15 - Jasper Johns, American painter
May 19 - Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
May 21 - Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
May 22 - John Barth, American writer
May 22 - Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978)
May 31 - Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer

June 2 - Charles Conrad, astronaut (d. 1999)
June 8 - Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
June 9 - Monique Serf, French musician (d. 1997)
June 11 - Charles B. Rangel, American politician
June 12 - Jim Nabors, American actor, musician, and comedian
June 17 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
June 19 - Gena Rowlands, American actress
June 22 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
June 24 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
June 27 - Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
March 15- John Jacob Jingl Himer Schmidt, random guy

July-August

July 2 - Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
July 3 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
July 4 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor
July 4 - George Steinbrenner, baseball team owner
July 9 - Buddy Bregman, American musical arranger
July 11 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
July 15 - Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
July 25 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
July 25 - Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
July 28 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)

August 1 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
August 5 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
August 6 - Abbey Lincoln, American singer
August 12 - George Soros, Hungarian-born businessman
August 17 - Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
August 21 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
August 25 - Sean Connery, Scottish actor
August 30 - Warren Buffett, American investor

September-October

September 3 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
September 7 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
September 16 - Anne Francis, American actress
September 23 - Ray Charles, American singer and musician (d. 2004)
September 25 - Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, and humorist (d. 1999)
September 26 - Philip Bosco, American actor
September 26 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (d. 1966)
October 1 - Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
October 1 - Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
October 5 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress (d. 1999)
October 5 - Pavel Popovich, cosmonaut
October 5 - Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 6 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
October 8 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
October 10 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 10 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
October 11 - Sam Johnson, American politician
October 17 - Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
October 29 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
October 30 - Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
October 30 - Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d. 2002)
October 31 - Michael Collins, astronaut

November-December

November 4 - Doris Roberts, American actress
November 14 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (d. 1997)
November 14 - Edward White, astronaut (d. 1967)
November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
November 24 - Bob Friend, baseball player

December 1 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 4 - Jim Hall, jazz guitarist
December 6 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
December 11 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
December 11 - Jim Williams, American antique dealer and preservationist
December 15 - Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
December 21 - Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official
December 21 - Kalevi Sorsa, prime minister of Finland (d. 2004)
December 27 - Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer
December 31 - Odetta, American singer

Unknown dates

Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (d. 1996)
Barney Glaser, American sociologist

Deaths

Nobel prizes

Physics - Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Chemistry - Hans Fischer
Physiology or Medicine - Karl Landsteiner
Literature - Sinclair Lewis
Peace - Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan Söderblom

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