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1930
 
    
René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer       
1930
 
    
The Irish National War Memorial opens in Dublin, designed by Edwin Lutyens in a garden setting       
1930
 
     
Joseph von Sternberg directs Marlene Dietrich in the film The Blue Angel, shot in both German and English, making her an immediate international star        
1930
 
    
US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway       
1930
 
    
Mahatma Gandhi leads a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the sea to defy the British salt tax, thus launching a campaign of civil disobedience       
1930
 
    
In The Fur Trade in Canada Harold Innis traces the economic development linking the trade and the nation       
1930
 
    
The Hays Code sets exacting standards of public decency in US movies       
1930
 
     
The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig        
1930
 
    
British inventor Frank Whittle takes out a patent for a jet engine       
Sketches towards the design of Whittle's jet engine
National Archives, Kew
1930
 
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The regent Ras Tafari becomes emperor of Ethiopia and takes the name Haile Selassie