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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.
- Ethiopia -- Haile Selassie
- France -- R101 Crashes in Beauvais
- Uruguay -- Wins World Cup
- United States -- Betty Boop
- Worldwide - Pluto Discovered
- United States - Chrysler Building Opens
Haile Selassie I becomes the Emperor of Ethiopia. More Information for Haile Selassie. Tafari Makonnen, also known as Haile Selassie I, became the Emperor of Ethiopia during November . He was known for his efforts to bring Ethiopia into the international community by joining the League of Nations and, later, the United Nations. Selassie remained in...
Britain's Largest Airship the R101 crashes in Beauvais, France, killing all on board. More Information and Timeline for R-101 Airship Crash 1. The R-101 airship was built in October of 1929 by the British government along with another airship, the R-100. 2. The airships were built with the purpose of long distance travel for civil purposes within t...
Uruguay wins the World Cup in Uruguay defeating Argentina. More Information for the first World Cup. The very first FIFA World Cup takes place during July in Montevideo, Uruguay. The World Cup was envisioned as an international tournament for soccer after it was announced that the sport would be dropped from the upcoming 1932 Olympic Games. The ver...
The cartoon character of Betty Boop makes her debut in "Dizzy Dishes." More Information for Betty Boop. The character of Betty Boop makes her debut during August in "Dizzy Dishes" a part of Max Fleischer's "Talkartoon" animated series. The character was originally designed by Grim Natwick who would go on to become a lead animator in the production ...
Pluto is discovered during February of 1930. It was discovered by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was originally thought to be the ninth planet of the solar system. The discovery was publicly announced a month later on the anniversary of the discovery of Uranus. Tombaugh found Pluto by using a blink ...
1. The Chrysler Building is completed and opens during May of 1930. 2. It was designed in the popular Art Deco style by architect William Van Alen. 3. It was the tallest building in the world at a height of 1,046 feet for about a year until the Empire State Building was completed in 1931 . 4. The Chrysler Building was built for Walter Chrysler and ...
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Oct 29, 2009 · The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. At its peak, the U.S. unemployment rate topped 20 percent.
The 1930s 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.
Apr 26, 2024 · The U.S. recovery began in the spring of 1933. Output grew rapidly in the mid-1930s: real GDP rose at an average rate of 9 percent per year between 1933 and 1937. Output had fallen so deeply in the early years of the 1930s, however, that it remained substantially below its long-run trend path throughout this period.
The stock market rose in early 1930, with the Dow returning to 294 (pre-depression levels) in April 1930, before steadily declining for years, to a low of 41 in 1932. At the beginning, governments and businesses spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the corresponding period of the previous year.
United States - Great Depression, Economic Crisis, 1930s: In October 1929, only months after Hoover took office, the stock market crashed, the average value of 50 leading stocks falling by almost half in two months. Despite occasional rallies, the slide persisted until 1932, when stock averages were barely a fourth of what they had been in 1929. Industrial production soon followed the stock ...
