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1930
 
     
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson begin to create a garden at Sissinghurst in Kent        
Vita Sackville-West, photo 1921
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1930
 
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A military coup removes Hipolito Irigoyen from the presidency in Argentina      
1930
 
     
18-year-old Jean Harlow is a sensation in Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes        
1930
 
   
English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems      
1930
 
    
Adolf Hitler puts Joseph Goebbels at the head of the Nazi party's propaganda campaign       
1930
 
    
English pioneer aviator Amy Johnson makes a 19-day solo flight in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon (part of London) to Darwin, Australia       
Amy Johnson sheet music, c.1930
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1930
 
    
Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children       
1930
 
    
The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year       
1930
 
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Getúlio Vargas begins a 24-year personal rule in Brazil      
1930
 
    
US crime-writer Dashiell Hammett publishes The Maltese Falcon, the novel in which he introduces his sardonic private eye, Sam Spade