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| 1930 |
| | | The Hays Code sets exacting standards of public decency in US movies | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig | |
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| 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
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| 1930 |
| | | The regent Ras Tafari becomes emperor of Ethiopia and takes the name Haile Selassie | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson begin to create a garden at Sissinghurst in Kent | |
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| 1930 |
| | | A military coup removes Hipolito Irigoyen from the presidency in Argentina | |
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| 1930 |
| | | 18-year-old Jean Harlow is a sensation in Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes | |
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| 1930 |
| | | English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Adolf Hitler puts Joseph Goebbels at the head of the Nazi party's propaganda campaign | |
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| 1930 |
| | | English pioneer aviator Amy Johnson makes a 19-day solo flight in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon (part of London) to Darwin, Australia | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Getúlio Vargas begins a 24-year personal rule in Brazil | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US crime-writer Dashiell Hammett publishes The Maltese Falcon, the novel in which he introduces his sardonic private eye, Sam Spade | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Wolfgang Pauli announces his mathematical proof of the existence of the particle subsequently known as the neutrino | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act introduces a US protectionist policy | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The Allies withdraw their occupying forces from Germany's Rhineland, five years ahead of schedule | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | | Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos) | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US golfer Bobby Jones retires after winning his thirteenth major in eight years | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Rafael Trujillo establishes a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic that will last for 30 years | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | | The verdict on Fred Astaire's first screen test, so the legend goes, is that he can't act, can't sing, is balding but can dance a little | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Heitor Villa-Lobos composes the first of his Bachianas Brasileiras | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Conservative leader R.B. Bennett defeats the Liberals and becomes prime minister of Canada | |
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| 1930 |
| | | French actor Jean Gabin makes his screen debut in Chacun sa Chance | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications | |
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| 1930 |
| | | British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicts the existence of an anti-particle of the electron, first observed two years later and named the positron | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Lewis Milestone makes a powerful film of Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, published in the previous year | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Edward G. Robinson gives a chilling portrayal of a gangster loosely based on Al Capone in the film Little Caesar | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The Nazis become the second largest party in the Reichstag, winning 107 seats | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | | The steel-band tradition begins to develop in Trinidad, with adapted metal objects taking the place of traditional skin drums | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | | A pregnant female hamster, captured in Syria, becomes the ancestor of every pet hamster in the world | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Agatha Christie's Miss Marple makes her first appearance, in Murder at the Vicarage | |
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