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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.
•  March 31, 1930 – The Motion Pictures 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.
•  May 1, 1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
•  June 17, 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
•  June 18, 1930 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held.
•  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.
•  November 18, 1930 – Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Sōka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.

•  January 29, 1930 – Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
•  January 30, 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor
•  April 7, 1930 – Andrew Sachs, English actor
•  August 24, 1930 – Roger McCluskey, American racing driver (d. 1993)
•  August 30, 1930 – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1981)
•  September 21, 1930 – Bob Stokoe, English football and manager (d. 2004)
•  October 29, 1930 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
•  November 15, 1930 – J. G. Ballard, British author (d. 2009)
•  December 1, 1930 – Matt Monro, English singer (d.1985)