20 events found for 1930
A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after st
The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting s
The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas
"Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly discovered dwarf planet by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observat
The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bag
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she lef
The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the publ
A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent
One-year conscription comes into force in France
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the…
The inaugural FIFA World Cup begins in Uruguay.
In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina.
The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas…
The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
The first British Empire Games are opened in Hamilton, Ontario, by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount…
The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.