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Sunday, April 13, 1930. Inspired by Gandhi's Salt March, 500,000 people in British India held an orderly demonstration in Bombay, defying the colonial law against private gathering of salt and throwing a monstrous effigy, representing the salt tax, into the Indian Ocean.
The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the ...
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The world learned of brownshirts (members of a thuggish Nazi militia; 1932), of the gestapo (1934),the Third Reich (1930), and of the cult of the Führer (1934) and his Hitlerite (1930) followers. And above all it became aware of the word Nazi (1930), which came to stand as the symbol of the evil which overtook Europe and the rest of the globe.
Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language[edit] Noah Webster (1758–1843), the author of the readers and spelling books which dominated the American market at the time, spent decades of research in compiling his dictionaries. His first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, appeared in 1806.
Births – Deaths – Architecture. Establishments – Disestablishments. 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.
20th Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1901) World's Book of Knowledge (1901) New Century Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge (1902) American Educator and Library of Knowledge (1902) Standard Library of Knowledge (1904) Student's Cycopaedia (1900) Student's Reference Work (1903) New Student's Reference Work (1909) How and Why Library ...
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. [5] 1939 – Robert Menzies , who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons .
