page_title: 1930 in the United States
section_title: April–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1930 in the United States / Events / April–June
caption_attribution_description: Chrysler Building, New York English: The top floors of the Chrysler Building seen from the east on 42nd Street in morning light. English: New Yorker Chrysler Building, oberer Gebäudeteil, vom östlichen Teil der 42. Straße aus gesehen.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1930 in the United States.
context_section_description: April 6 – Jimmy Dewar invents Hostess Twinkies.
  April 21 – A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320 people.
  April 22 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
  April 28 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
  May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C..
  May 14 – Carlsbad Caverns National Park is established in New Mexico.
  May 15 – Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California, to Chicago, Illinois).
  May 20 – The Chrysler Building is completed, becoming the world's first man-made structure taller than 1,000 feet (305 m).
  May 30 – Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October.
  June 9 – Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.
  June 14 – An act of Congress establishes the Federal Bureau of Narcotics as a replacement for the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit.
  June 17 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
caption: May 20: Chrysler Building completed
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