1930

Events from the year 1930 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Herbert Hoover (R-CA)
* Vice President: Charles Curtis (R-KS)
* Chief Justice: William Howard Taft (OH) (until February 3), Charles Evans Hughes (NY) (starting February 13)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Nicholas Longworth (R-OH)
* Senate Majority Leader: James Eli Watson (R-IN)
* Congress: 71st
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 6
** The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
** The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
* January 13 – The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
* January 19 – Watsonville riots begins.
* January 23 – Watsonville riots ends.
* February 1 – Bacterol Products Company located in New York City is incorporated.
* February 18
** Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane, and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.
** While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when the term "planet" was officially defined. Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
* March 6 – The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
* March 17 – The Empire State Building begins construction in New York City.
* March 20 – Colonel Sanders opens the first Kentucky Fried Chicken in North Corbin, Kentucky.
* March 31 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next 40 years.
===April - June===
* April 3 – The 2nd Academy Awards, hosted by William C. DeMille, are presented at Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, with Harry Beaumont's The Broadway Melody winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh's In Old Arizona and Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot jointly received the most nominations with five.
* 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.
* June 18 - The Bears FC is founded in Miami-Florida by William "Willy" Campbell.
===July - September===
* July 4 – Nation of Islam founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad in Detroit.
* July 26 – Charles Creighton and James Hargis leave New York City for Los Angeles on a roundtrip journey, driving 11,555 km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days.
* July 30 – New York City station W2XBS is put in charge of NBC broadcast engineers.
* July 31 – The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time.
* August 6 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York City and disappears.
* August 7 – Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. They are hanged; James Cameron survives. This will be the last recorded lynching of African Americans in the Northern United States.
* August 9 – Cartoon character Betty Boop premieres in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
* September 8 – 3M introduces Scotch Tape.
===October - December===
* October 8 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 2, to win their 5th World Series Title.
* November 4 – W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, is televised.
* November 5 – The 3rd Academy Awards, hosted by Conrad Nagel, are presented at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Milestone winning Best Director. The film and George Hill's The Big House both received the most awards with two, while Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade received the most nominations with six.
* December 2 – Great Depression: U.S. President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
* December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts, broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
==Memoriam==
* January 9 – Edward Bok, author (aged 66; Lake Wales, FL, USA)
* January 24 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia (aged 94; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* February 7 – Jennie Anderson Froiseth, women's rights campaigner (aged 80; Cottonwood, UT, USA)
* February 14 – Fred Dubois, U.S. Senator from Idaho (aged 78; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 27 – George Haven Putnam, author and publisher (aged 85; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* March 8
** Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1923 to 1930 (aged 64; Washington, DC, USA)
** William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and 10th Chief Justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930 (aged 72; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 11 – Alma Webster Hall Powell, opera singer, suffragist, and inventor (aged 60; Mahwah, NJ, USA)
* March 13 – Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, author (aged 77; Metuchen, NJ, USA)
* March 14 – Martin Grove Brumbaugh, 26th Governor of Pennsylvania (aged 67; Pinehurst, NC, USA)
* March 31 – James Marshall Head, politician and businessman (aged 75; Boston, MA, USA)
* April 7 – Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, politician (aged 70; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
* April 14 – John B. Sheridan, Irish-American sports journalist (aged 60; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* May 1 - Anna Margaret Urbas, New York City murder victim in a criminal dispute (aged 25; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 2 – Daniel V. Asay, iceboat racer (aged 82; Red Bank, NJ, USA)
* May 18 – Gottfried Blocklinger, admiral (aged 82; Dubuque, IA, USA)
* June 16 – Ezra Fitch, businessman, co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (aged 64; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* July 2 – Anders Randolf, silent film actor (aged 59; Hollywood, CA, USA)
* August 6 – Luigi Fugazy, banker, businessman and philanthropist (aged 91; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 13 – Silas C. Swallow, preacher and prohibitionist politician (aged 91; Harrisburg, PA, USA)
* August 26 – Lon Chaney, actor, director, screenwriter and makeup artist (aged 47; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* August 29 – Henry Tureman Allen, senior U.S. Army officer (aged 71; Buena Vista, PA, USA)
* September 5 – Robert Means Thompson, naval officer and president of the American Olympic Association (aged 81; Ticonderoga, NY, USA)
* September 21 – John Thompson Dorrance, chemist (aged 56; Cinnaminson Township, NJ, USA)
* September 24 – William A. MacCorkle, lawyer, Governor of West Virginia (aged 73; Charleston, WV, USA)
* September 28 – Daniel Guggenheim, mining magnate and philanthropist (aged 74; Port Washington, NY, USA)
* October 2 – Gordon Stewart Northcott, serial killer (aged 23; San Quentin, CA, USA)
* October 13 – Richard C. Watts, justice (aged 77; Laurens, SC, USA)
* October 15 – Herbert Henry Dow, industrial chemist (aged 64; Rochester, MN, USA)
* November 11 – T. Coleman du Pont, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1925 to 1928 (aged 66; Wilmington, DE, USA)
* November 20 – William B. Hanna, sportswriter (aged 64; West Point, NY, USA)
* December 9 – Rube Foster, Negro league baseball player (aged 51; Kankakee, IL, USA)
* December 14 – F. Richard Jones, director (aged 37; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 16 – Herman Lamm, bank robber (aged 40; Sidell, IL, USA)
==External links==
* 1930 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 16