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1930 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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Wars
1. Colombia–Peru War (September 1, 1932 – May 24, 1933) – fought between the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Peru 2. Chaco War (June 15, 1932 – June 10, 1935) – fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over the disputed territory of Gran Chaco, resulting in a Paraguayan victory in 1935; an agreement dividing the territory was made in 1938, formally ending the conflict 3. Saudi–Yemeni War (March 1934 – May 12, 1934) – fought between Saudi Arabia and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen 4. Se...
Internal conflicts
1. Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) – The ruling Kuomintang and the rebel Chinese Communist Party fought a civil war for control of China. The Communists consolidated territory in the early 1930s and proclaimed a short-lived Chinese Soviet Republic that collapsed upon Kuomintang attacks, forcing a mass retreat known as the Long March. The Kuomintang and Communists attempted to put away their differences after 1937 to fight the Japanese invasion of China, but intermittent clashes continued throug...
Colonization
1. The Ethiopian Empire is invaded by the Kingdom of Italy during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War from 1935 to 1936. The occupied territory merges with Eritrea and Italian Somaliland into the colony of Italian East Africa. 2. The Empire of Japan captures Manchuria in 1931, creating the puppet state of Manchukuo. A puppet government was created, with Puyi, the last Qing dynasty Emperor of China, installed as the nominal regent and emperor.
The China floods of 1931are among the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded.The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane makes landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 5 hurricane and the most intense hurricane to ever make landfall in the Atlantic basin. It caused an estimated $6 milli...The German dirigible airship Hindenburg explodes in the sky above Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people. The event leads to an investigation of the explosion and th...The New London School in New London, Texas, is destroyed by an explosion, killing in excess of 300 students and teachers (1937).Prominent assassinations include: 1. French president Paul Doumer is assassinated in 1932 by Paul Gorguloff, a mentally unstable Russian émigré. 2. U.S. presidential candidate and former Governor of Louisiana Huey Long is assassinated in 1935 by Carl Weiss. 3. Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria and leading figure of Austrofascism, is assassi...
The Great Depression is considered to have begun with the fall of stock prices on September 4, 1929, and then the stock market crash known as Black Tuesdayon October 29, 1929, and lasted through mu...The entire decade is marked by widespread unemployment and poverty, although deflation (i.e. falling prices) was limited to 1930–32 and 1938–39. Prices fell 7.02% in 1930, 10.06% in 1931, 9.79% in...Economic interventionist policies increase in popularity as a result of the Great Depression in both authoritarian and democratic countries. In the Western world, Keynesianism replaces classical ec...In an effort to reduce unemployment, the United States government created work projects such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) which was a public work relief program that operated from 1933...Technology
Many technological advances occurred in the 1930s, including: 1. Frank Whittle obtained his first patent for the turbo-jet engine in 1930. He tested his first jet engineon the ground in 1937. 2. On March 8, 1930, the first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye were sold in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. 3. Alan Blumlein invented the stereophonic soundin 1931. 4. Nestlé releases the first white chocolate candy as the Milkybar.; 5. Ub Iwerks produced the first Color Sound Cartoon in 193...
Science
1. Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Plutoin 1930, which goes on to be announced as the ninth planet in the Solar System. 2. Albert Einstein's equations form the basis for creation of the atomic bomb.
Literature and art
1. Height of the Art Deco movement in North America and Western Europe. 2. Notable poetry include W. H. Auden's Poems. 3. Notable literature includes F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night (1934), T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone (1938), J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937), Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Of Mice and Men (1937), Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not (1937), John Dos Passos's U.S.A trilogy, William Faulkner's As I L...
Best-selling books
The best-selling books of every year in the United States were as follows: 1. 1930: Cimarron by Edna Ferber 2. 1931: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 3. 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 4. 1933: Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen 5. 1934: Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen 6. 1935: Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas 7. 1936: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 8. 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 9. 1938: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 10. 1939: The Grapes of Wrath by Joh...
Film
1. Charlie Chaplin's groundbreaking classic, "City Lights", was released in 1931. 2. Charlie Chaplin's last film featuring his signature character, "The Tramp", was subsequently released in 1936. 3. Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfswas released in 1937. 4. The Little Princesswas released in 1939. 5. The Wizard of Ozwas released in 1939. 6. In the art of filmmaking, the Golden Age of Hollywood enters a new era after the advent of talking pictures ("talkies") in 1927 and full-color...
Actors/entertainers
1. Laurel & Hardy in their film "The Flying Deuces" (1939) 2. Shirley Temple, 1933 3. The Marx Brothers, 1931 4. Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the trailer for Gone with the Wind(1939) 5. The Three Stooges
Criminals
Prominent criminals of the Great Depression: 1. Al Capone 2. Bonnie and Clyde 3. John Dillinger 4. Baby Face Nelson 5. Pretty Boy Floyd 6. Alvin Karpis 7. Machine Gun Kelly 8. Ma Barker
Brendon, Piers. The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000) global political history; 816pp excerptCornelissen, Christoph, and Arndt Weinrich, eds. Writing the Great War – The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present (2020) free download; full coverage for major countries.Gardiner, Juliet, The Thirties: An Intimate History. London, Harper Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-00-724076-0on BritainGarraty, John A. The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, As Seen by Contemporaries(1986).1930 February 18 : Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto . March 12 : Salt March by Mohandas Gandhi and the official start of civil disobedience in British India .
- The Great Depression. The stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (also known as Black Tuesday) provided a dramatic end to an era of unprecedented, and unprecedentedly lopsided, prosperity.
- “A New Deal for the American People” By 1932, many Americans were fed up with Hoover and what Franklin Roosevelt later called his “hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government.”
- The First Hundred Days. The new president acted swiftly during his first hundred days in office to, he said, “wage a war against the emergency” just as though “we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.”
- American Culture During the 1930s. During the Depression, most people did not have much money to spare. However, most people did have radios–and listening to the radio was free.
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.
Actress. World Leaders. 1930s. The 1930s was a decade in the Anno Domini and Common Era in the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1, 1930 and ended on December 31, 1939. It is distinct from the decade known as the '''194st decade''' which began on January 1, 1931 and ended on December 31, 1940. Events. Great Depression. Dust Bowl.
