WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1930
Find out what all happened April to October 1930

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

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

The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public. (27. May 1930)

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

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

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

The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. (29. August 1930)

The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon. (16. August 1930)

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

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

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

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

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

A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. (9. June 1930)

Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur. (27. September 1930)

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

Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios. (20. September 1930)