1930

Events from the year **1930 in the United States**.

* 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

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Bibb Graves (Democratic)
* Governor of Arizona: John Calhoun Phillips (Republican)
* Governor of Arkansas: Harvey Parnell (Democratic)
* Governor of California: Clement C. Young (Republican)
* Governor of Colorado: Billy Adams (Democratic)
* Governor of Connecticut: John H. Trumbull (Republican)
* Governor of Delaware: C. Douglass Buck (Republican)
* Governor of Florida: Doyle E. Carlton (Democratic)
* Governor of Georgia: Lamartine G. Hardman (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: H. C. Baldridge (Republican)
* Governor of Illinois: Louis L. Emmerson (Republican)
* Governor of Indiana: Harry G. Leslie (Republican)
* Governor of Iowa: John Hammill (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Clyde M. Reed (Republican)
* Governor of Kentucky: Flem D. Sampson (Republican)
* Governor of Louisiana: Huey P. Long (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: William Tudor Gardiner (Republican)
* Governor of Maryland: Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Frank G. Allen (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: Fred W. Green (Republican)
* Governor of Minnesota: Theodore Christianson (Republican)
* Governor of Mississippi: Theodore G. Bilbo (Democratic)
* Governor of Missouri: Henry S. Caulfield (Republican)
* Governor of Montana: John E. Erickson (Democratic)
* Governor of Nebraska: Arthur J. Weaver (Republican)
* Governor of Nevada: Fred B. Balzar (Republican)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Charles W. Tobey (Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Morgan Foster Larson (Republican)
* Governor of New Mexico: Richard C. Dillon (Republican)
* Governor of New York: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: Oliver Max Gardner (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: George F. Shafer (Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: Myers Y. Cooper (Republican)
* Governor of Oklahoma: William J. Holloway (Democratic)
* Governor of Oregon: A. W. Norblad (Republican)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: John Stuchell Fisher (Republican)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Norman S. Case (Republican)
* Governor of South Carolina: John Gardiner Richards Jr. (Democratic)
* Governor of South Dakota: William J. Bulow (Democratic)
* Governor of Tennessee: Henry Hollis Horton (Democratic)
* Governor of Texas: Dan Moody (Democratic)
* Governor of Utah: George Dern (Democratic)
* Governor of Vermont: John E. Weeks (Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Harry F. Byrd (Democratic) (until January 15), John Garland Pollard (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Governor of Washington: Roland H. Hartley (Republican)
* Governor of West Virginia: William G. Conley (Republican)
* Governor of Wisconsin: Walter J. Kohler Sr. (Republican)
* Governor of Wyoming: Frank C. Emerson (Republican)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: William C. Davis (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: William Lee Cazort (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: H. L. Carnahan (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: George Milton Corlett (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Ernest E. Rogers (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: James H. Hazel (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: O. E. Hailey (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Fred E. Sterling (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Edgar D. Bush (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Arch W. McFarlane (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Jacob W. Graybill (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: James Breathitt Jr. (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Paul N. Cyr (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: William S. Youngman (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Luren D. Dickinson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Charles Edward Adams (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Bidwell Adam (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Edward Henry Winter (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Frank A. Hazelbaker (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: George A. Williams (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Morley Griswold (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Herbert H. Lehman (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Richard T. Fountain (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: John W. Carr (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: John T. Brown (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Arthur H. James (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: James G. Connelly (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: E. B. Jackson (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: John T. Grigsby (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Sam R. Bratton (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Barry Miller (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: Stanley C. Wilson (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Junius Edgar West (Democratic) (until January 15), James H. Price (Democratic) (starting January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: John Arthur Gellatly (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Henry A. Huber (Republican)

## 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)