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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 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 28, 1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
•  June 17, 1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
•  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.
•  July 30, 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first Football World Cup.
•  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 16, 1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
•  October 27, 1930 – ratifications exchanged in London, for the first London Naval Treaty signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty’s modified provisions go into effect immediately; further limiting the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories.
•  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.

•  January 1, 1930 – Frederick Wiseman, American documentary filmmaker
•  January 20, 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
•  March 3, 1930 – Ion Iliescu, former President of Romania
•  June 16, 1930 – Allan D'Arcangelo, American artist (d. 1998)
•  June 21, 1930 – Mike McCormack, American professional football player
•  July 1, 1930 – Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
•  August 22, 1930 – Gilmar, Brazilian football player
•  October 6, 1930 – Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer
•  November 4, 1930 – Dick Groat, American baseball player
•  November 27, 1930 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009)