Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. [edit] Events [edit] January–February [edit] March–April [edit] May–June - May 4/May 5 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested again.
- May 6 – The Great Salmas Earthquake in Iran (7.3 on the Richter Scale) kills 4,000 people.
- May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C..
- May 15 – Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
- May 16 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo is elected president of the Dominican Republic.
- May 17 – French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland (they depart by June 30).
- May 20 – Sergei Eisenstein arrives in New York City.
- May 24 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
- May 30
- June 9 – Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.
- June 17 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
- June 21 – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
[edit] July–August [edit] September–October [edit] November–December [edit] Undated - The British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine.
- The Federal Bureau of Narcotics replaces the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
- A Jake paralysis outbreak occurs in United States.
- Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidt camera.[1]
- A massive hurricane in the Caribbean almost demolishes the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, which is the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, is ever televised.
- 1930–1931 – Crazy Horse's lifelong friend, He Dog, is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz.
- Sudbury, Ontario, Canada is incorporated as a city.
- 1935 – The Giant Aye-aye an extinct species is classified.
- Europeans are 38% of world population.[citation needed]
[edit] Births [edit] January - January 1 – Gaafar Nimeiry, President of Sudan
- January 2
- January 4 – Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
- January 6
- January 10 – Roy E. Disney, American film and television executive
- January 12 – Jennifer Johnston, Irish writer
- January 19 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
- January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot and astronaut, second person to set foot on the Moon
- January 23 – Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 24 – Rita Lakin, American author
- January 26 – John Straffen, British serial killer
- January 27 – Bobby Bland, American singer
- January 30 – Gene Hackman, American actor
[edit] February - March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American author and novelist
- March 3 – Heiner Geissler, German politician
- March 6
- March 7 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
- March 10 – Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer
- March 13 – Liz Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter
- March 15 – Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 17 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
- March 19 – Ornette Coleman, American musician
- March 20 – Willie Thrower, American football player
- March 22
- March 24
- March 25 – John Keel, American author
- March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981–2006)
- March 27 – David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
- March 28 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 30
- April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress
- April 3
- April 8 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma
- April 10 – Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
- April 11 – Anton LaVey, American Satanist (d. 1997)
- April 12 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish Professor of Engineering (d. 2006)
- April 15 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
- April 16 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003)
- April 16 – Carol Bly, Teacher, award-winning American author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction (d. 2007)
- April 19 – Dick Sargent, American actor and gay activist (d. 1994)
- April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
- April 24 – Richard Donner, American film director and producer
- April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director and writer
- April 28 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
- April 29 – Jean Rochefort, French actor
- May 3 – Bob Havens, American musician
- May 4 – Roberta Peters, American soprano
- May 8 – Heather Harper, Irish soprano
- May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
- May 10 – Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
- May 11 – Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
- May 15 – Jasper Johns, American painter
- May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965)
- May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
- May 22
- May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
- June 1 – Edward Woodward, British actor (d. 2009)
- June 2 – Charles Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
- June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- June 9 – Monique Serf, French musician (d. 1997)
- June 11 – Charles B. Rangel, African-American politician
- June 12 – Jim Nabors, American actor, musician, and comedian
- June 17 – Brian Statham, English cricketer (d. 2000)
- June 19 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
- June 22 – Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- June 24 – William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
- June 27 – Ross Perot, American billionaire and politician
- June 28 – Itamar Franco, President of Brazil
[edit] August - August 1 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
- August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first person to set foot on the Moon
- August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer
- August 12 – George Soros, Hungarian-born investor
- August 13 – Don Ho, Hawaiian singer (d. 2007)
- August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
- August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d. 2009)
- August 21 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
- August 23 – Mickey McMahan, American big band musician (d. 2008)
- August 25 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor
- August 27 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
- August 30 – Warren Buffett, American investor
[edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Unknown [edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 9 – Edward Bok, American author (b. 1863
- February 14 – Sir Thomas MacKenzie, New Zealand Prime Minister and High Commissioner (b. 1854)
- February 15 – Giulio Douhet, Italian air power theorist (b. 1869)
- February 21 – Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (b. 1898)
- February 23 – Mabel Normand, American actress (b. 1895)
- February 23 – Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)
- February 28 – Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence, English classical scholar, South African judge and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge (b. 1854)
- March 2 – D. H. Lawrence, English writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover) (b. 1885)
- March 6 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German politician and admiral (b. 1848)
- March 8 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, 10th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1857)
- March 12 – William George Barker, Canadian pilot
- March 19 – Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
- March 24 – Eugeen Van Mieghem, Belgian painter (b. 1875)
- April 2 – Empress Zawditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
- April 21 – Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
- April 14 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1893)
- April 22 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish poet and novelist (b. 1866)
- May 13 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1861)
- May 17 – Herbert Croly, American political author (b. 1869)
- May 25 – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
- June 5 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (b. 1885)
- June 13 – Henry Segrave, British racer and speed record holder (b. 1896)
[edit] July–December - July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British author (Sherlock Holmes) (b. 1859)
- July 8 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
- June 15 – Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist (b. 1845)
- July 23 – Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (b. 1878)
- July 28 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1862)
- July 30 – Joan Gamper, Swiss-born businessman and founder of FC Barcelona (b. 1877)
- August 15 – Florian Cajori, Swiss-born historian of mathematics (b. 1859)
- August 26 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
- August 29 – William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest (b. 1844)
- September 1 – Peeter Põld, Estonian pedagogical scientist and politician (b. 1878)
- September 15 – Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
- September 21 – John T. Dorrance, American chemist (b. 1873)
- September 24 – William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
- October 2 – Gordon Stewart Northcott, serial killer, was hung.
- October 15 – Herbert Dow, Canadian-born chemical industrialist
- October 26 – Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1872)
- November 5 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1858)
- November 30 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor leader (b. 1837)
- December 9
- December 12 – Nikolai Pokrovsky, Russian politician and the last foreign minister of the Russian Empire (b. 1865)
- December 13 – Fritz Pregl, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- December 14 – F. Richard Jones, American director (b. 1893)
[edit] Nobel Prizes The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps, from Concord California, have entitled their 2009 program "1930." [edit] External links |
