WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1930
Find out what all happened February to September 1930

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). (24. May 1930)

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

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

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

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