WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1930
Find out what all happened January to August 1930

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

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

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

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

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

Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara. (28. March 1930)

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

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

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

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

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

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

One-year conscription comes into force in France. (21. June 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)

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)

While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. (18. February 1930)

The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later. (26. January 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)

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)

The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York. (6. January 1930)