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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.
•  March 29, 1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
•  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 21, 1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
•  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.
•  August 6, 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
•  September 6, 1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
•  September 12, 1930 – Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower’s XI against the Australians.
•  October 5, 1930 – British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
•  November 3, 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.

•  January 11, 1930 – Ron Mulock, Australian politician
•  January 24, 1930 – Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure (d. 2010)
•  May 13, 1930 – Vernon Shaw, President of Dominica
•  September 4, 1930 – Don Ackerman, American basketball player (d. 2011)
•  September 7, 1930 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
•  September 19, 1930 – Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
•  September 23, 1930 – Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
•  October 14, 1930 – Robert Parker, American R&B singer and musician
•  October 31, 1930 – Michael Collins, American astronaut
•  December 7, 1930 – Hal Smith, American baseball player