Historical Events In 1930

Mar 23 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner

Mar 26 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway

Mar 28 Constantinople & Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara

Mar 06 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food

Mar 08 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India

Mar 22 The birth of Stephen Sondheim, American songwriter

Mar 04 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated

Mar 13 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

Mar 16 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine

Mar 27 The first US radio broadcast from a ship at sea

Mar 20 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph

Mar 24 The birth of Steve McQueen, American actor

Mar 13 Discovery of the planet Pluto by Clyde W Tombaugh made his discovery on February 18 and announced it on March 13

Mar 12 Mahatma Gandhi began a march to the sea, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India

Mar 19 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi

Mar 15 The first streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched

Mar 08 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

Mar 11 Babe Ruth signed a two-year contract with the New York Yankees for the sum of $80,000.

Mar 24 Planet Pluto named

Mar 11 President &Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington

Mar 13 Pluto discovered

Mar 23 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson

Aug 13 Don Ho, Hawaiian singer (Tiny Bubbles) born

Aug 18 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service

Aug 05 The birth of Neil Armstrong, First man on the Moon

Aug 09 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes

Aug 25 The birth of Sean Connery, Scottish actor

Sep 08 NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew

Sep 14 After stormtroopers terrorize political opponents, Nazi seats in Reichstag rise from 12 to 107.

Sep 23 The birth of Ray Charles, American singer

Sep 08 The first appearance of the comic strip "Blondie"

Sep 18 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup

Sep 29 The final section of the 3'6" gauge railway on Prince Edward Island is converted to standard gauge. The conversion work on the island had started in 1919.

Sep 27 Bobby Jones completes the Grand Slam of Golf

Sep 03 Hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 (Dominican Republic)

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