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1929
 
  
Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven     
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       
c. 1930
 
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A pregnant female hamster, captured in Syria, becomes the ancestor of every pet hamster in the world      
c. 1931
 
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Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia      
c. 1931
 
   
Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite      
1931
 
    
Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies       
1931
 
   
The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria      
1932
 
   
Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state      
1932
 
    
After gaining control of most of the Arabian peninsula, Ibn Saud gives his kingdom a new name, Saudi Arabia       
1933
 
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Japan announces its withdrawal from the League of Nations after a resolution is passed declaring the Japanese occupation of Manchuria illegal