Events Date 1930 January | History by KabAstro

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

Australian Men's Tennis Open

Jan 25 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Edgar Moon wins his first and only Grand Slam singles title; beats fellow Australian Harry Hopman 6-3, 6-1, 6-3

Jan 25 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Melbourne: Daphne Akhurst Cozens wins 3rd straight Australian singles title; beats Sylvia Lance Harper 10-8, 2-6, 7-5
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.