WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1930
Find out what all happened February to August 1930

International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern (6. March 1930)

Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt (12. March 1930)

The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks. (16. August 1930)

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

The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA. (16. February 1930)

The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory. (13. March 1930)

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

The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named. (1. May 1930)

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). (7. July 1930)

The Communist Party of Panama is founded. (4. April 1930)

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

Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes. (9. August 1930)

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

Yên Bái mutiny in French Indochina (10. February 1930)

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

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

Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England. (11. July 1930)

The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas. (28. April 1930)

Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft. (18. February 1930)