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1930 Calendar

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•  January 30, 1930 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
•  January 31, 1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
•  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).
•  June 18, 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
•  June 21, 1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
•  July 7, 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
•  July 11, 1930 – Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
•  September 20, 1930 – Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios.
•  November 3, 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
•  December 7, 1930 – 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.

•  January 1, 1930 – Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor (d. 1959)
•  January 31, 1930 – Lynn Carlin, American actress
•  March 26, 1930 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American jurist
•  March 30, 1930 – John Astin, American actor
•  April 3, 1930 – Wally Moon, American baseball player
•  July 14, 1930 – Polly Bergen, American actress
•  August 13, 1930 – Bernard Manning, English comedian (d. 2007)
•  August 21, 1930 – Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)
•  October 15, 1930 – Fereydun M. Esfandiary, Iranian philosopher (d. 2000)
•  November 3, 1930 – Frits Staal, Dutch philosopher and scholar