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List of events
Events from the year 1930 in the United States .
Incumbents Events January–March January 6
The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed (
Indianapolis , Indiana, to New York City).
The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by English author
A. A. Milne , granting
Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the
Winnie-the-Pooh works.
January 13 – The
Mickey Mouse comic strip
[1]
January 19–23 –
Watsonville riots : violent assaults on
Filipino American farm workers by white residents in California.
[2]
February 18
Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first
cow to fly in an
airplane , and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
While studying photographs taken in January,
Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of
Pluto , a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when officially redefined as a
dwarf planet .
March 6 – The first
frozen foods of
Clarence Birdseye go on sale in
Springfield, Massachusetts .
March 17 – The
Empire State Building begins construction in
New York City .
March 20 –
Colonel Sanders opens the first
Kentucky Fried Chicken in
North Corbin, Kentucky .
March 31 – The
Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in
motion pictures for the next 40 years. April–June
May 20:
Chrysler Building completed
April 3 – The
2nd Academy Awards , hosted by
William C. DeMille , are presented at the
Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles) , with
Harry Beaumont 's
The Broadway Melody winning the
Academy Award for Best Picture .
Irving Cummings and
Raoul Walsh 's
In Old Arizona and
Ernst Lubitsch 's
The Patriot jointly receive the most nominations with five.
April 6 – Jimmy Dewar invents
Hostess
Twinkies (
snack cakes ).
[3]
April 19 –
Warner Bros. in the United States release their first cartoon series, called
Looney Tunes , which runs until
1969 .
April 21 – A fire in the
Ohio Penitentiary near
Columbus kills 320 people.
[4]
April 22 – The United States,
United Kingdom and
Japan sign the
London Naval Treaty regulating
submarine warfare and limiting
shipbuilding .
April 28 – The first night game in organized
baseball history takes place in
Independence, Kansas .
May 10 – The
National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in
Washington, D.C.
May 14 –
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is established in
New Mexico .
May 15 –
Ellen Church becomes the first
airline stewardess , aboard a
Boeing tri-motor flying from
Oakland, California , to
Chicago, Illinois .
May 20 – The
Chrysler Building is completed in New York City, becoming the world's first man-made structure taller than 1,000 feet (305 m).
May 30
June 9 –
Chicago Tribune journalist
Jake Lingle is shot in
Chicago . Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with
organized crime .
June 14 – An act of Congress establishes the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics as a replacement for the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
June 17 – U.S. President
Herbert Hoover signs the
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. July–September October–December October 8 - The
Philadelphia Athletics defeat the
St. Louis Cardinals , 4 games to 2, to win their 5th World Series Title.
November 4 – W9XAP in
Chicago, Illinois , broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, is televised.
November 5 – The
3rd Academy Awards , hosted by
Conrad Nagel , are presented at the
Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles) .
Lewis Milestone 's
All Quiet on the Western Front wins the
Academy Award for Best Picture , with Milestone winning
Best Director . The film and
George Hill 's
The Big House both receive the most awards with two, while
Ernst Lubitsch 's
The Love Parade receives the most nominations with six.
November 15 –
Jean Harlow has her first major film role, in
Howard Hughes ' epic war film
Hell's Angels . Her platinum hair and sensual persona cause an immediate sensation, turning her into one of the decade's most iconic and discussed film stars.
December 2 –
Great Depression : U.S. President
Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the
economy .
December 7 –
W1XAV in
Boston, Massachusetts , broadcasts video from the
CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers . The broadcast also includes the first
television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I. J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show. Undated A
Jamaican ginger ("Jake") paralysis outbreak occurs across the South and Midwest.
1930–1931 –
Crazy Horse ’s lifelong friend,
He Dog , is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and
Nebraska writer
Mari Sandoz .
A record drought in the eastern part of the nation
[5] sees
Upper Tract ,
West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3 mm) of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east of the Mississippi.
[6] Averaged over the contiguous US the twelve months from July 1930 to June 1931 remains the driest such period on record.
[7] Ongoing Births January
Robert Loggia
Tippi Hedren
Buzz Aldrin
Gene Hackman
January 1 –
Ty Hardin , actor (d.
2017 )
January 2
January 3
January 4
January 5
January 6
January 7
January 8
January 10 –
Roy E. Disney , film and television executive (d.
2009 )
January 12 –
Glenn Yarbrough , singer (d.
2016 )
January 13 –
Frances Sternhagen , actress
January 14 –
C. Arlen Beam , judge
January 15
January 17
January 18 –
James M. Bobbitt , chemist and professor
January 19 –
Tippi Hedren , actress
January 20 –
Buzz Aldrin , astronaut, Lunar Module Pilot on
Apollo 11 and second person to walk on the Moon
January 22 –
David Rosen , businessman
January 23
January 24
January 25 –
Ruth Kligman , artist (d.
2010 )
[13]
January 26 –
Thomas Gumbleton , Roman Catholic prelate (d.
2024 )
[14]
January 27 –
Bobby Bland , African-American singer (d.
2013 )
January 28
January 30
January 31 –
Al De Lory , record producer, arranger, musician (d.
2012 ) February
Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
Leon Cooper
February 2 –
C. M. Newton , American basketball player, coach and administrator (d.
2018 )
February 3 –
David Edward Foley , Roman Catholic prelate (d.
2018 )
February 4 –
Jim Loscutoff , American basketball player (d.
2015 )
February 5 –
Don Goldie , American jazz trumpeter (d.
1995 )
February 7 –
Jack Biddle , politician d.
2022 )
[15]
February 8
February 10
February 11 –
James Polshek , American architect (d.
2022 )
[16]
February 12
February 13 –
Frank Buxton , American actor, television writer, director and author (d. 2018)
February 14 –
Bernie Papy Jr. , American politician (d.
1995 )
February 15
February 16
February 17 –
Roger Craig , American baseball player, coach and manager (d.
2023 )
February 18 –
Pauline Bart , American sociologist (d.
2021 )
[17]
February 19 –
John Frankenheimer , American film director (d.
2002 )
February 22
February 24
February 25
February 26 –
Robert Francis , American actor (d.
1955 )
February 27
February 28 –
Leon Cooper , American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate March
James Irwin
Steve McQueen
March 2
March 5 –
Del Crandall , American baseball player and manager (d.
2021 )
March 6 –
Allison Hayes , American actress (d.
1977 )
March 9 –
Ornette Coleman , American jazz saxophonist (d.
2015 )
March 16
March 17 –
James Irwin , American astronaut (d.
1991 )
March 18 –
Adam Maida , American Roman Catholic prelate
March 19
March 21 –
James Coco , American actor (d.
1987 )
March 22
March 24 –
Steve McQueen , American actor (d.
1980 )
March 25
March 26 –
Sandra Day O'Connor , American politician,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d.
2023 )
[23]
March 27 –
James Tayoun , American politician (d.
2017 )
March 28
March 30 –
John Astin , American actor April
Dick Sargent
Carolyn Jones
May
Mike Gravel
Harvey Milk
Clint Eastwood
May 1
May 3
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 7 –
Babe Parilli , American football player (d.
2017 )
May 10
May 11
May 12 –
Tom Umphlett , American baseball player and manager (d.
2012 )
May 13 –
Mike Gravel , American politician (d.
2021 )
May 15
May 16 –
Carolyn Conwell , American actress (d.
2012 )
May 18 –
Don L. Lind , American naval aviator, astronaut and scientist (d.
2022 )
[28]
May 19 –
Lorraine Hansberry , African-American playwright (d.
1965 )
[29]
May 22
May 23 –
Charles Kelman , ophthalmologist (d.
2004 )
May 27
May 28 –
Frank Drake , American radio astronomer, pioneer in
SETI (d.
2022 )
May 29 –
Gerry Lenfest , American lawyer, media executive and philanthropist (d. 2018)
May 30
June
Pete Conrad
Jim Nabors
Ross Perot
June 1
June 2
June 3 –
Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer (d.
1999 )
[32]
June 4 –
Morgana King , American jazz singer and actress (d.
2018 )
June 8 –
Richard Paul Matsch , federal judge (d.
2019 )
June 10 –
Grace Mirabella , American editor of
Vogue (d.
2021 )
[33]
June 11 –
Charles B. Rangel , African-American politician
June 12
June 14 –
Charles McCarry , American novelist (d.
2019 )
[34]
June 16 –
Thyrsa Frazier Svager , African American mathematician and academic (d.
1999 )
June 17 –
Shatzi Weisberger , American activist (d.
2022 )
[35]
June 19
June 21 –
John E. McCarthy , Roman Catholic bishop (d.
2018 )
June 22
June 23 –
Ben Speer , American singer, musician, music publisher and record company executive (d.
2017 )
June 24
June 25 –
James Sedin , American ice hockey player
June 26 –
Jackie Fargo , American wrestler, trainer (d.
2013 )
June 27 –
Ross Perot , American computer billionaire, politician (d.
2019 )
June 28 –
Maureen Howard , American writer, editor and lecturer (d.
2022 )
June 29
June 30
July
Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Jerry Vale
Polly Bergen
Paul Taylor
July 1
July 2
July 3 –
Ronnell Bright , jazz pianist(d. 2021)
July 4
July 5
July 7
July 8
July 9 –
Buddy Bregman , musical arranger (d.
2017 )
July 10 –
Pete Carril , basketball coach
July 11
July 13 –
Dick Bunt , basketball player
July 14 –
Polly Bergen , American actress (d.
2014 )
July 15 –
Betty Wagoner , American baseball player (d.
2006 )
July 16
July 18 –
Sammy Masters , singer-songwriter (d.
2013 )
July 20 –
Ronnie MacGilvray , American basketball player (d.
2007 )
July 23 –
Moon Landrieu , lawyer and politician,
Mayor of New Orleans (d.
2022 )
[38]
July 29 –
Paul Taylor , choreographer (d.
2018 )
July 30
August
Neil Armstrong
Robert Culp
August 2
August 5
August 6 –
Abbey Lincoln , American singer (d.
2010 )
August 8 –
Joan Mondale , American socialite,
Second Lady of the United States (d. 2014)
August 10 –
Fakir Musafar , American performance artist, body modification pioneer (d.
2018 )
August 13
August 14
August 15 –
Selma James , American-born feminist writer
August 16
August 21 –
Frank Perry , American stage director and filmmaker (d.
1995 )
August 23 –
Mickey McMahan , big band musician (d.
2008 )
August 28 –
Ben Gazzara , American actor (d.
2012 )
August 30 –
Warren Buffett , American billionaire
entrepreneur
August 31 –
Raymond J. Donovan , American businessman and politician,
Secretary of Labor (d.
2021 ) September
Ray Charles
John Young
September 2 –
Rita Riggs , American costume designer (d.
2017 )
September 4 –
Norman Dorsen , American civil rights activist (d.
2017 )
September 7 –
Sonny Rollins , African-American jazz saxophonist
September 9 –
Frank Lucas , African-American drug trafficker (d.
2019 )
September 11 –
Cathryn Damon , American actress (d.
1987 )
September 13 –
Mary Baumgartner , American female professional baseball player (d.
2018 )
September 16 –
Anne Francis , American actress (d.
2011 )
September 17
September 23 –
Ray Charles , African-American singer, musician and actor (d.
2004 )
September 24 –
John Young , American astronaut (d.
2018 )
September 25 –
Shel Silverstein , American poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter and children's book author (d.
1999 )
[39]
September 26 –
Philip Bosco , American actor (d.
2018 )
September 28
September 29 –
Billy Strange , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d.
2012 )
[40] October
The Big Bopper
Michael Collins
November
Mildred Dresselhaus
Ed White
November 3
November 4 –
Dick MacPherson , American football coach (d.
2017 )
November 6
November 7 –
Rudy Boschwitz , American politician
November 11 –
Mildred Dresselhaus , American scientist, educator (d.
2017 )
November 12 –
Bob Crewe , American singer-songwriter, manager and producer (d.
2014 )
November 13
November 14 –
Ed White , American astronaut (d.
1967 )
[45]
November 16 –
Paul Foytack , American baseball player (d.
2021 )
November 17 –
Bob Mathias , American athlete (d.
2006 )
November 20 –
Curly Putman , American songwriter (d.
2016 )
November 21 –
Anthony Downs , American economist (d.
2021 )
[46]
November 22 –
Owen Garriott , American astronaut (d.
2019 )
November 23
November 24 –
Bob Friend , American baseball player (d.
2019 )
November 25 –
Clarke Scholes , American freestyle swimmer (d.
2010 )
November 30 –
G. Gordon Liddy , American organizer of the
Watergate burglaries (d.
2021 ) December
Odetta
Deaths
William Howard Taft
January 9 –
Edward Bok , editor (b.
1863 in the Netherlands)
[50]
January 13 –
John Nathan Cobb , author, naturalist, conservationist, fisheries researcher, and educator (b.
1868 )
[51]
January 24 –
Rebecca Latimer Felton , U.S. Senator from Georgia (b.
1835 )
February 7 –
Jennie Anderson Froiseth , women's rights campaigner (b.
1849 )
February 14 –
Fred Dubois , U.S. Senator from Idaho (b.
1851 )
February 27 –
George Haven Putnam , author and publisher (b.
1844 )
March 8 –
William Howard Taft , 27th
president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and 10th
chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930 (b.
1857 )
March 11 –
Alma Webster Hall Powell , opera singer, suffragist and inventor (b.
1869 )
March 13 –
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman , author (b.
1852 )
[52]
March 31 –
James Marshall Head , politician and businessman (b.
1855 )
April 7 –
Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo , politician (b.
1859 )
April 14 –
John B. Sheridan , sports journalist (b.
1870 in Ireland )
[53]
May 2 –
Daniel V. Asay , iceboat racer (b.
1847 )
May 18 –
Gottfried Blocklinger , admiral (b.
1847 )
May –
Anna Margaret Urbas , criminal associate (murdered; b. 1905/06)
June 16 –
Ezra Fitch , businessman, co-founder of
Abercrombie & Fitch (b.
1865 )
July 2 –
Anders Randolf ,
silent film actor (b.
1870 in Denmark )
August 6 –
Luigi Fugazy , banker, businessman and philanthropist (b.
1839 in Italy)
September 5
September 21 –
John T. Dorrance , chemist (b.
1873 )
September 24 –
William A. MacCorkle , lawyer, Governor of West Virginia (b.
1857 )
September 28 –
Daniel Guggenheim , mining magnate and philanthropist (b.
1856 )
October 2 –
Gordon Stewart Northcott , serial killer (executed; b.
1906 )
October 15 –
Herbert Henry Dow , industrial chemist (b.
1866 in Canada )
November 20 –
William B. Hanna , sportswriter (b.
1866 )
[54]
December 9 –
Rube Foster ,
Negro league baseball player (b.
1879 )
December 14 –
F. Richard Jones , director (b.
1893 )
December 16 –
Herman Lamm , bank robber (suicide; b.
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