Year retrospective · 1930s

1930

1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1930th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 930th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1930s decade.

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Notable deaths

24

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1930s

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Defining events of 1930

  1. 1930 A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services.

    1930 fire in Romania

    In 1930, a devastating fire destroyed the wooden church in Costești, a small town in Argeș County, Romania, and killed 118 people, mostly primary school and high school students, the youngest of them being an 8-year-old girl. The event was also known in Romanian press as the Black Easter.

  2. 1930 After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.

    Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930

    Zewditu was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 until her death in 1930. She officially adopted the regnal name "Zewditu" at the beginning of her reign, which was triggered by the dethroning of Lij Iyasu in 1916. Her coronation was held on February 11, 1917, in the Cathedral of St.

  3. 1930 The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.

    1930 international arms control treaty

    The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address issues not covered in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, which had created tonnage limits for each nation's surface warships, the new agreement regulated submarine warfare, further controlled cruisers and destroyers, and limited naval shipbuilding.

  4. 1930 The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.

    American professional baseball team

    The Independence Producers were a minor league baseball team based in Independence, Kansas, United States, that played from 1921 to 1925 and from 1928 to 1932. From 1921 to 1924, they played in the Southwestern League, and in 1925 they played in the Western Association. They played in the Western Association from 1928 to 1932 as well.

  5. 1930 At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."

    1930 Indian protest led by Mahatma Gandhi

    The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India, led by Mahatma Gandhi. The 24-day march (padayatra) lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. Another reason for this march was that the Civil Disobedience Movement needed a strong inauguration that would inspire more people to follow Gandhi's example.

  6. 1930 The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.

    Type of two-dimensional visual art

    A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style. The specific meaning has evolved, but the modern usage usually refers to either: an image or series of images intended for satire, caricature, or humor; or a motion picture that relies on a sequence of illustrations for its animation. Someone who creates cartoons in the first sense is called a cartoonist, and in the second sense they are usually called an animator.

  7. 1930 The first British Empire Games are opened in Hamilton, Ontario, by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
  8. 1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
  9. 1930 The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are murdered.
  10. 1930 Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.

Farewells

Died in 1930

Georges-Casimir Dessaulles Canadian politician
Fritz Pregl Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist
Eric Lemming Swedish athlete
Pascin American, Jewish painter
William Howard Taft President of the United States from 1909 to 1913
Edward Terry Sanford US Supreme Court justice from 1923 to 1930
Georges-Casimir Dessaulles Canadian politician
Fritz Pregl Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist
Eric Lemming Swedish athlete
Pascin American, Jewish painter
William Howard Taft President of the United States from 1909 to 1913
Edward Terry Sanford US Supreme Court justice from 1923 to 1930

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