1930 Calendar
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1930 Historical Event(s)
- January 30, 1930 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 12, 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
- April 18, 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
- June 9, 1930 – 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 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- August 6, 1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.
- August 7, 1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
- August 29, 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
- 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 24, 1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as “provisional president.”
- November 11, 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
Who Were Born On 1930?
- March 6, 1930 – Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
- April 24, 1930 – Richard Donner, American film director and producer
- May 1, 1930 – Richard Riordan, American politician, former mayor of Los Angeles
- June 2, 1930 – Bob Lillis, baseball player
- June 3, 1930 – Ben Wada, Japanese television producer
- July 2, 1930 – Carlos Menem, Argentine politician, 50th President of Argentina
- October 15, 1930 – Fereydun M. Esfandiary, Iranian philosopher (d. 2000)
- November 11, 1930 – Hugh Everett, American physicist (d. 1982)
- November 17, 1930 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete (d. 2006)
- November 26, 1930 – Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist