WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1930
Find out what all happened February to December 1930

In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup. (30. July 1930)

The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. (7. August 1930)

Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana. (16. December 1930)

The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time. (31. July 1930)

The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. (22. April 1930)

British Airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage. (5. October 1930)

Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda. (18. November 1930)

3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. (8. September 1930)

U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. (17. June 1930)

In cricket Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians. (12. September 1930)

The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years. (31. March 1930)

Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. (16. June 1930)

Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again. (6. August 1930)

Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. (6. September 1930)

Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler. (29. March 1930)

Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. (2. December 1930)

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute are held. (18. June 1930)

After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia. (2. April 1930)

Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. (29. December 1930)

Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha. (6. April 1930)