Important Historical Events of the year 1930, Year 1930 in History
List of 1930 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1930
What happened in the year 1930?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 6, 1930 | Clessie Cummins arrives at the National Automobile Show in New York City, having driven a car powered by one of his diesel engines from Indianapolis. |
| January 26, 1930 | The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later. |
| January 30, 1930 | The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders the confiscation of lands belonging to the Kulaks in a campaign of Dekulakization, resulting in the executions and forced deportations of millions. |
| February 3, 1930 | Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong. |
| February 10, 1930 | The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam. |
| February 16, 1930 | The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA. |
| February 18, 1930 | While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. |
| February 18, 1930 | Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft. |
| March 6, 1930 | International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern. |
| March 12, 1930 | Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India. |
| March 13, 1930 | The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory. |
| March 29, 1930 | Heinrich Brüning is appointed Reichskanzler of Germany. |
| March 31, 1930 | The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years. |
| April 2, 1930 | After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia. |
| April 6, 1930 | At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." |
| April 18, 1930 | The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced that "there is no news" in their evening report. |
| April 22, 1930 | The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. |
| April 28, 1930 | The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas. |
| May 1, 1930 | "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on. |
| May 5, 1930 | The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago. |
| May 7, 1930 | The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed. |
| May 24, 1930 | Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). |
| May 27, 1930 | The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. |
| June 1, 1930 | The Deccan Queen is introduced as first intercity train between Bombay VT (Now Mumbai CST) and Poona (Pune) to run on electric locomotives. |
| June 9, 1930 | A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. |
| June 16, 1930 | Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. |
| June 17, 1930 | U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law. |
| June 21, 1930 | One-year conscription comes into force in France. |
| July 7, 1930 | Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). |
| July 13, 1930 | The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay. |
| July 30, 1930 | In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup. |
| August 7, 1930 | The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. |
| August 16, 1930 | The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks. |
| August 16, 1930 | The first British Empire Games are opened in Hamilton, Ontario, by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon. |
| August 29, 1930 | The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. |
| September 6, 1930 | Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. |
| September 17, 1930 | The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks. |
| September 27, 1930 | Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf. |
| October 5, 1930 | British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people. |
| October 14, 1930 | The former and first President of Finland, K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.[8] |
| October 24, 1930 | A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ends the First Republic, replacing it with the Vargas Era. |
| October 27, 1930 | Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. |
| November 3, 1930 | Getúlio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. |
| November 11, 1930 | Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. |
| December 2, 1930 | Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. |
| December 7, 1930 | W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show. |
| December 29, 1930 | Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. |