Events Date 1930 | History by KabAstro

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Jan 1 Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant
Jan 1 Jurgens & Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever

Bonnie Meets Clyde

Jan 5 Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay's house

"A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"

Jan 5 Mao Zedong writes the essay "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" to criticize cadres not creating rural revolutionary base areas

Revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party Mao Zedong

Jan 6 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed

Bradman's World Record Score

Jan 6 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman scores 452 not out for New South Wales v Queensland in Sydney; then world record individual score in a first-class match; runs scored in 415 minutes

Jan 7 Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness" premieres in NYC
Jan 7 Marguerite Perey discovers francium (Fr), the last naturally occurring element to be found

Albert Kahn Soviet Architects

Jan 9 Architectural firm Albert Kahn Associates becomes the consulting architects for all industrial construction in the Soviet Union

Jan 9 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
Jan 10 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
Jan 10 New Zealand's 1st game of Test cricket is held in Christchurch, NZ. Englishman Maurice Allom takes a Test hat-trick.
Jan 13 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears

Headley Scores 157

Jan 15 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley scores 157 of 176 on debut on the 4th day of the drawn 1st Test against England in Bridgetown, Barbados

Jan 18 -27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)

"The Nose"

Jan 18 Dmitri Shostakovich's satirical opera "The Nose" premieres in Leningrad

Jan 20 1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
Jan 21 Boston Bruins become first team in NHL history to score 100 goals in a season, in a 5-1 win over Chicago at Boston Garden; Cooney Weiland scores Bruins' 100th goal in their 26th game of the year
Jan 22 -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
Jan 23 Clyde Tombaugh photographs dwarf planet Pluto
Jan 23 George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established
Jan 23 WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
Jan 24 John Mills scores New Zealand's 1st Test century in cricket, sharing a record 276 run opening stand with Stewie Dempster
Jan 26 Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)

Primo de Rivera Resigns

Jan 28 Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera resigns as Prime Minister of Spain after losing the support of his fellow military leaders and King Alfonso XIII

Dictator and Prime Minister of Spain Miguel Primo de Rivera

Jan 30 Russia launches their 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver- from Pavlovsk, USSR.

"The Bathhouse"

Jan 30 Vladimir Mayakovsky's drama "The Bathhouse (Bunya)" premieres in Leningrad

Jan 31 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, New Jersey

"Von heute auf morgen"

Feb 1 Arnold Schoenberg's opera "Von heute auf morgen" ("From Today to Tomorrow") premieres at the Oper Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany

Feb 3 The Indochinese Communist Party of Vietnam is established

Taft Resigns

Feb 3 William Howard Taft resigns as US chief justice for health reasons

Feb 4 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
Feb 5 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
Feb 8 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
Feb 10 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
Feb 15 Wenona Mustangs beat Toluca Wildcats in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes, 26-22
Feb 17 French government of André Tardieu falls for the first time
Feb 18 Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted
Feb 18 Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi" premieres in Milan

Simple Simon

Feb 18 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Simple Simon" premieres in NYC

Feb 18 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto

Green Pastures

Feb 21 Marc Connelly's play "Green Pastures" premieres in NYC

Feb 25 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley completes twin tons (114 & 112) in 3rd Test win against England at Georgetown, British Guiana
Feb 25 Check photographing device patented
Feb 26 1st red & green traffic lights installed in Manhattan, NYC
Feb 26 West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
Feb 27 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
Mar 2 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
Mar 4 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
Mar 4 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
Mar 4 Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
Mar 7 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
Mar 7 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

Babe Ruth's 2-Year Yankee Deal

Mar 8 Baseball slugger Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for a then huge $160,000 with NY Yankees; GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Mar 9 Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's satirical opera "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" premieres in Leipzig, Germany

Appointment of Interest

Mar 11 Hans Luther is appointed as president of the Reichsbank.

Mar 11 William Taft, American 27th President & Chief Justice buried in Arlington Cemetery

Salt March

Mar 12 Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax

Mar 12 Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh] sets world record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
Mar 13 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
Mar 15 1st seaplane glider flown at Port Washington, NY
Mar 15 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
Mar 16 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
Mar 17 Construction begins of the Empire State Building, the world's 1st skyscraper of 100+ stories, on 5th Avenue in New York City
Mar 18 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
Mar 19 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
Mar 20 American engine builder Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 80.4 mph (129.39 kph)

Sanders Court & Café

Mar 20 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded as Sanders Court & Café by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky

Businessman and Restaurateur Colonel Sanders

Mar 24 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
Mar 26 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
Mar 27 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea

Piston's Suite for Orchestra

Mar 28 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)

Istanbul – The Queen of Cities

Mar 28 Turkish cities Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara

The magnificent Hagia Sophia ranked as the world's largest cathedral for a thousand years

Mar 29 Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Chancellor
Mar 30 Babberich-H soccer team forms
Mar 31 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next 38 years

The Blue Angel

Apr 1 "The Blue Angel" starring Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role premieres in Germany

Jones' 13 Stroke Win

Apr 1 American golfer Bobby Jones starts his Grand Slam season by winning the Southeastern Open by 13 strokes over Horton Smith at the Forest Hills-Ricker Golf Course in Atlanta, Georgia

Apr 1 Chicago Cubs catcher Leo Hartnett breaks the altitude record for a catch by gloving a baseball dropped from the Goodyear blimp 800 feet over Los Angeles, California
Apr 2 1st NY-Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda

Haile Selassie

Apr 2 Ras Tafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

2nd Academy Awards

Apr 3 2nd Academy Awards: "The Broadway Melody", Warner Baxter & Mary Pickford win. First time Academy Awards are broadcast on the radio.

Montreal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins

Apr 3 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4-3 for a 2-0 series sweep and their 3rd Championship

Apr 4 England cricket batsman Andy Sandham ends Day 2 of 4th Test against West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica unbeaten on 309; 1st triple century in Test history; out for 325
Apr 4 Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
Apr 4 The Communist Party of Panama is founded
Apr 5 England cricketers dismissed for then record 849 v West Indies in 4th Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Andy Sandham out for 325

Event of Interest

Apr 5 Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of followers reach the sea at Dandi and boil seawater to make illegal salt, marking the end of his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

Apr 6 1st transcontinental glider tow completed
Apr 6 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
Apr 10 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley scores patient 223 in drawn 4th Test against England at Kingston, Jamaica
Apr 10 Thiokol synthetic rubber 1st produced in Yardley, New Jersey
Apr 12 4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days
Apr 12 Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
Apr 14 Philip Barry's play "Hotel Universe" premieres in NYC
Apr 17 Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
Apr 17 DuPont scientist Elmer K. Bolton invents neoprene using Julius Nieuwland's divinyl acetylene
Apr 18 Attempted raid on the armoury of police and auxiliary forces in Chittagong in Bengal province, British India by armed pro-independence revolutionaries led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da
Apr 18 BBC news announcer announces "there is no news" at 20:45 news bulletin, plays music instead

All Quiet on the Western Front

Apr 21 "All Quiet on the Western Front" based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Outstanding Production 1930)

Apr 21 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 322
Apr 22 British troops battle pro-independence revolutionaries in the Jalalabad hills near Chittagong, Bengal province, British India, 80 troops and 12 revolutionaries killed
Apr 22 US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
Apr 27 White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns [1]
Apr 28 1st night organized baseball game played in Independence, Kansas
Apr 29 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games
Apr 29 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens
Apr 29 Telephone connection Britain-Australia goes into service
May 1 Cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 236 for Australia v Worcestershire in his first 1st class innings in England
May 1 The planet Pluto is officially named by 11-year-old English schoolgirl Venetia Burney
May 2 Des Moines (Western League) defeats Wichita 13-6 to open 1st ballpark with permanently installed lights

Amy Johnson's Pioneering Flight

May 5 Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia

May 5 Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores an unbeaten 185 in a tour match for Australia v Leicestershire at Aylestone Road, Leicester
May 7 Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins

Poet Laureate John Masefield

May 9 John Masefield is appointed British Poet Laureate by King George V

May 10 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
May 10 Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 v Yorkshire at Sheffield
May 12 Pulitzer Prize for Drama awarded to Marc Connelly for "Green Pastures)"
May 14 US Congress designates Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico a National Park [1]
May 15 Ellen Church becomes 1st female airline stewardess aboard a United flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne
May 19 White women win voting rights in South Africa
May 20 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
May 20 University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention and cure of athlete's foot
May 21 Yankees' legendary slugger Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs as NY blows 6-0 lead in 4th against Philadelphia A's at Shibe Park; go on to lose, 15-7

Gehrig's Third Triple HR

May 22 Yankees' future Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman Lou Gehrig becomes first to hit 3 HRs three times as NY outscores Philadelphia A's, 20-13; teams combine for then-record 10 homers

May 24 21-year-old Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 252 not out in a tour match for Australia v Surrey at Kennington Oval, London
May 24 Amy Johnson becomes the 1st woman to fly solo from United Kingdom to Australia
May 24 NY Yankees' legendary slugger Babe Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader (beat Philadelphia A's 10-6 & 11-1); gives him 9 HR's in one week
May 26 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
May 27 Richard Drew invents masking tape

Chrysler Building Opens

May 27 The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public

Automobile Pioneer and Founder of Chrysler Walter Chrysler

May 28 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand
May 30 Shedd Aquarium, one of the first inland aquariums in the world, opens in Chicago, Illinois
May 31 British Amateur Championship, Men's Golf, St. Andrews Links: Bobby Jones scores a 7 & 6 win over Englishman Roger Wethered for the first leg of his Grand Slam
May 31 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium
May 31 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
May 31 Don Bradman batting for Australia v Hampshire at Southampton is 47 not out at stumps, bringing his aggregate to 1,001 runs, the first cricket touring overseas batsman to complete 1,000 runs by end of May
May 31 Philadelphia Athletics's Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader to set MLB record
Jun 1 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman cracks 191 in tour match v Hampshire at Southampton; Bradman smashes 26 fours in 240 minutes
Jun 2 Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
Jun 3 Grover Cleveland Alexander is released by the Phillies

Mobsters Murder Tribune Reporter

Jun 9 Chicago Tribune reporter and closet racketeer Jake Lingle is shot at close range and killed at the Illinois Central train station, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone; mobster Leo Brothers was convicted of the murder [1]

Nurmi Runs World Record

Jun 9 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 6 mile (29:36.4)

Runner nicknamed the Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi

Jun 10 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms

Schmeling vs Sharkey

Jun 12 German boxer Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey by disqualification in 4 rounds in NYC for vacant NBA, NYSAC, The Ring and lineal heavyweight titles; first time title won on a foul

Jun 13 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista, Greece
Jun 14 VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
Jun 16 Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR
Jun 17 Continuing a rich vein of form Australian cricket icon Don Bradman scores 131 in 1st Test v England at Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Jun 18 Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute science museum held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 22 New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig smashes 3 HRs in 20-13 win over Philadelphia A's at Shibe Park
Jun 24 First detection of an airplane using reflected radio waves, a precursor to radar, by US Naval Research Laboratory engineers in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
Jun 24 Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium, home of MLB Indians, 1932 to 1993, and NFL Browns, 1946-95
Jun 28 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on KC Monarchs
Jun 30 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady, NY
Jun 30 Australian cricket maestro Don Bradman sets up a 7 wicket victory with a patient 254 in 2nd Test v England at Lord's; 'The Don' hits 25 fours off 376 balls
Jul 1 Great Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
Jul 2 Chicago outfielder Carl Reynolds becomes only the 2nd player in MLB history to hit home runs in 3 consecutive innings in 15-4 White Sox victory at Yankee Stadium
Jul 3 US Veterans Administration created

Hoover Dam Begun

Jul 7 Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam

Jul 11 21-year-old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman is 105 at lunch, 220 at tea, and 309 at stumps on the first day in 3rd Test vs England at Leeds; goes on to 334
Jul 12 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman is out for 334 in drawn 3rd Test vs England at Headingley, Leeds; innings 383 minutes, 46 x 4's
Jul 13 1st-ever football World Cup competition begins in Uruguay
Jul 13 David Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would be a theater in every home"
Jul 18 SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
Jul 19 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Acacia CC: Lucia Mida beats June Beebe 6 & 5 to win the inaugural event and first women's major championship ever played

First Expedition to Antarctic Interior

Jul 19 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica

Aviator and Polar Explorer Richard E. Byrd

Jul 20 106°F (41°C), Washington, D.C. (district record)
Jul 21 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
Jul 21 US Veterans Administration forms
Jul 23 Earthquake strikes Ariano in Italy, 1,500 killed
Jul 23 Pitts Pie Traynor ends both games with HRs (1st in 9th, 2nd in 13th)
Jul 25 Philadelphia Athletics triple steal in 1st and 4th innings vs Cleveland
Jul 28 114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
Jul 29 115°F (46°C), Holly Springs, Mississippi (state record)
Jul 29 Airship R100, 1st passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada
Jul 30 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
Jul 30 1st FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay: Uruguay beats Argentina, 4-2 in the inaugural event
Jul 31 NY Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig drives in 8 runs with a grand slam and 2 doubles in a 14-13 win over the rival Boston Red Sox

Chuck Klein's Second Streak

Aug 3 For the 2nd time in the year, Phillies outfielder Chuck Klein hits safely in 26 straight games, run halted in 2nd game of doubleheader v Boston Braves

Baseball Hall of Fame Right Fielder Chuck Klein

Aug 4 Child labor laws established in Belgium

The Balloon Expedition to the North Pole

Aug 5 The Norwegian Bratvaag expedition finds the remains, diaries and negative images of S. A. Andrée’s ill-fated balloon polar expedition of 1897 on White Island in the Svalbard archipelago

S. A. Andrée and Knut Fraenkel beside their crashed balloon in the arctic

Aug 6 Remains of balloon expedition of Solamon August Andrées to North Pole in 1897, found at Kvit oya Spitsbergen
Aug 6 Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in NYC
Aug 7 A large mob estimated at 2,000, lynch two young black men Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana

Liberals Lose to Conservatives

Aug 7 Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King's Liberal Party loses the election to Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative Party

11th Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bedford Bennett

10th Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King

Aug 8 MLB St Louis Cardinals are 12 games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
Aug 9 113°F (45°C) at Perryville, Tennessee (state record)
Aug 9 Animated character Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's cartoon "Dizzy Dishes"
Aug 9 Percy Williams runs world record 100m (10.3 sec)

Birdseye Granted Patent

Aug 12 Clarence Birdseye is granted a patent for method for quick freezing food (patent US 1773079 A)

Aug 16 I British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Canada
Aug 16 The first color sound cartoon "Fiddlesticks" by Ub Iwerks (ex Walt Disney studio) is released
Aug 18 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service
Aug 20 A week before his 22nd birthday Australian cricket's batting genius Don Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test win over England at The Oval in London
Aug 20 Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
Aug 21 Prohibition of Wieringermeer finished
Aug 23 1st British Empire Games close in Hamilton, Canada
Aug 26 Chicago Cub's Hack Wilson hits his 44th HR, breaks Chuck Klein's NL record
Aug 29 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.