WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1930
Find out what all happened July to December 1930

Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. (2. November 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 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)

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

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

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. (3. November 1930)

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

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

Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty, signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty's modified provisions, go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. (27. October 1930)

W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show. (7. December 1930)

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

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

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

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

A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional president." (24. October 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)

Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. (11. November 1930)

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

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