April 1930
The following events occurred in April 1930:
April 1, 1930 (Tuesday)
April 2, 1930 (Wednesday)
April 3, 1930 (Thursday)
- The 2nd Academy Awards were held in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Unlike in the inaugural year, the winners were not announced in advance. The ceremony was also broadcast live on the radio for the first time, via the Los Angeles station KNX. The Broadway Melody won the award for Outstanding Picture.[4]
- The Montreal Canadiens hockey team won their third Stanley Cup, defeating the Boston Bruins 4-3 to win the Finals two games to none.
- Born: Lawton Chiles, politician, in Lakeland, Florida (d. 1998); Helmut Kohl, politician and statesman, in Ludwigshafen, Germany; Wally Moon, baseball player, in Bay, Arkansas
April 4, 1930 (Friday)
- Former U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg told a luncheon audience in Chicago that American isolationism was no longer viable. "A great nation like ours, with ten billions a year of foreign commerce, has as much to gain by the establishment of the World Court as any country in the world", he said.[5]
- The American Interplanetary Society was founded to conduct rocket experiments. In 1934 the organization changed its name to the American Rocket Society.
- Died: Victoria of Baden, 67, Queen of Sweden
April 5, 1930 (Saturday)
April 6, 1930 (Sunday)
April 7, 1930 (Monday)
April 8, 1930 (Tuesday)
April 9, 1930 (Wednesday)
April 10, 1930 (Thursday)
April 12, 1930 (Saturday)
- 500,000 Indians held an orderly demonstration in Bombay, illegally making salt and throwing a monstrous effigy representing the salt tax into the sea.[18]
April 16, 1930 (Wednesday)
- Britain and the Soviet Union signed a new trade pact granting each other most favoured nation status.[23]
- First Lady Lou Henry Hoover suffered a back injury in a fall at the White House.[24] The injury was serious enough to require her to use a wheelchair during her recovery.[25]
- Thuringian interior minister Wilhelm Frick of the Nazi Party introduced nationalistic new prayers to be recited in elementary schools. Liberals objected to the propagandistic content of the prayers and challenged their constitutionality in court.[26] One line read, "I believe that thou wilt punish the betrayal of Germany and bless the actions of those who seek to free the Fatherland."[27]
- Born: Carol Bly, author, in Duluth, Minnesota (d. 2007); Herbie Mann, jazz flautist, in Pecos, New Mexico (d. 2003)
April 17, 1930 (Thursday)
- 27 Indian independence demonstrators were sentenced for breaking the salt laws, including Mahatma Gandhi's son Devdas, who received three months imprisonment. Mahatma Gandhi urged his followers to continue nonviolent forms of protest, saying that riots like the one in Calcutta "will harm our struggle."[28]
- The Paraguayan football club Club Sportivo San Lorenzo was founded.
- The Chittagong armoury raid occurred when Indian revolutionaries led by Surya Sen raided an armoury in the Bengal province of British India, seizing it and setting it on fire. Martial law was proclaimed and troops were called out to quell the uprising.[29][30]
- The 1930 Costești wooden church fire took place in the small Romanian town of Costești during Good Friday services when candles set some drapery on fire.[31]
- A typhoon swept through Leyte in the Philippines, causing extensive damage.[32]
- Died: Jack Stivetts, 62, American baseball player
April 19, 1930 (Saturday)
- The London Naval Treaty was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, limiting the tonnage of warships until 1936. France and Italy were exempted from the section that set limitations on total tonnage, but it was hoped that they would sign on to the full treaty at a later date.[40]
- 57 revolutionaries who participated in the Chittagong raid were surrounded on the Jalalabad range by government forces. 64 British troops and 11 revolutionaries were killed in the ensuing battle.[41]
- Died: Jeppe Aakjær, 63, Danish poet and novelist
April 23, 1930 (Wednesday)
April 24, 1930 (Thursday)
April 26, 1930 (Saturday)
- The Turkestan–Siberia Railway opened, connecting the cities of Arys and Novosibirsk. Construction continued until January 1931 and the four-year project cost over 161 million rubles in total.[48][49]
- The Independence, Kansas baseball team of the Class C Western Association hosted the first regular season night game in organized baseball history. The visiting Muskogee Chiefs beat the Independence Producers under the lights by a score of 13-3 before a crowd of 1,000.[50][51]
- Born: James Baker, attorney and government official, in Houston, Texas; Carolyn Jones, actress, in Amarillo, Texas (d. 1983); Richard C. Sarafian, director and actor, in New York City (d. 2013)
- Died: Charles Grandmougin, 80, French poet and playwright
April 30, 1930 (Wednesday)
- Italy decreed that its naval construction program for the next year would consist of 29 new ships totalling 42,900 tons, an increase of 12,000 tons over the previous year.[53]
- The Dutch football club Ter Leede was founded.
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- ↑ "Tageseinträge für 1. April 1930". chroniknet. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ "100 Die in Panic as Storm Sinks Japanese Ferry". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 3, 1930. p. 5.
- ↑ "2nd Academy Awards Winners". Movie Movie. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ "Kellogg Defends World Court in Chicago Speech". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 5, 1930. p. 3.
- ↑ Lawers, Gracienne. "The Use of Language in Education in Belgium." Language Rights Revisited – The Challenge of Global Migration and Communication. Ed. Dagmar Richter, Ingo Richter, Reetta Toivanen, Iryna Ulasiuk. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2012. p. 260. ISBN 9783830528098
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- ↑ Gandhi, Gopalkrishna (April 6, 2010). "The Great Dandi March — eighty years after". The Hindu. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Wolfenstein, E. Victor (1971). Revolutionary Personality: Lenin, Trotsky, Gandhi. Princeton University Press. p. 219. ISBN 9781400871872.
- ↑ "Soviet Seeks Supermen, Forms Physical Culture Ministry". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 7, 1930. p. 3.
- ↑ Holston, Kim R. (2013). Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-7864-6062-5.
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- ↑ "Gandhi Wilts Under Strain of India Salt War". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 11, 1930. p. 25.
- ↑ "Stock Exchange in Tokio Reopens; Panic Averted". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 12, 1930. p. 5.
- ↑ "Italian Troops Fire on Rioters; Take 280 to Jail". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 12, 1930. p. 5.
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- ↑ "500,000 Hurl 'Salt Tax' into Sea at Bombay". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 14, 1930. p. 3.
- ↑ Khanal, Vinod (November 13, 2014). "Mahatma Gandhi describes Nehru's arrest in 1930 as ‘rest’". The Times of India. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Steele, John (April 15, 1930). "22 1/2% of British Incomes Taken by New Tax Law". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 10.
- ↑ Schultz, Sigrid (April 15, 1930). "Reichstag Puts Higher Tax on Beer by 9 Votes". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 12.
- ↑ "One Slain, Many Hurt in India's Salt Tax Riots". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 16, 1930. p. 1.
- ↑ "British, Russian Envoys Sign New Commerce Pact". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 17, 1930. p. 3.
- ↑ "Mrs. Hoover Injures her Back Slightly in Fall at White House". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 17, 1930. p. 1.
- ↑ "Injuries Still Curb Activities of Mrs. Hoover". Chicago Daily Tribune: 1. May 14, 1930.
- ↑ Lamberti, Marjorie (2004). The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany. Bergahn Books. p. 206. ISBN 9781571812995.
- ↑ "German Schools Forbidden to Use 'Kaiser' Prayer". Chicago Daily Tribune. July 12, 1930. p. 12.
- ↑ "Britain Jails 27 Leaders of Salt Tax War in India". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 18, 1930. p. 23.
- ↑ Overstreet, Gene D.; Windmiller, Marshall (1959). Communism in India. University of California Press. p. 138.
- ↑ Stevenson, Richard (2005). Bengal Tiger and British Lion: An Account of the Bengal Famine of 1943. Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse. p. 77. ISBN 9780595362097.
- ↑ "144 Die; Fire and Panic End Easter Mass". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 19, 1930. p. 1.
- ↑ "Fear Many Dead After Typhoon Hits Philippines". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 21, 1930. p. 1.
- ↑ "Polish Jobless Battle Police; 3 Slain, 36 Hurt". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 20, 1930. p. 20.
- ↑ "Boston Marathon Yearly Synopses". Boston Marathon Media Guide. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Reid, John Howard (2008). Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide. Lulu.com. ISBN 9781435710733.
- ↑ "Lindy Spans U.S. in 15 Hours". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 21, 1930. p. 1.
- ↑ Kelly, Andrew (1998). Filming "All Quiet On the Western Front". New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. p. 6. ISBN 9781860643613.
- ↑ "A List of Victims of the Ohio Penitentiary Fire". Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Evans, John (April 22, 1930). "Sex Paganism Imperils Home, Churchmen Say". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
- ↑ Steele, John (April 23, 1930). "Navy Envoys Off for U.S.". Chicago Daily Tribune. pp. 1, 8.
- ↑ Sen, S.N. (2006). History: Modern India. Delhi: New Age Publishers. p. 193. ISBN 9788122417746.
- ↑ "List 28 as "Public Enemies"". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 24, 1930. pp. 1, 8.
- ↑ Girardin, G. Russell; Helmer, William J. (2005). Dillinger: The Untold Story. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 288. ISBN 9780253216335.
- ↑ "Il Duce's Daughter is Bride of Count". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 24, 1930. p. 1.
- ↑ "Gangster Capone to Prison". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 26, 1930. p. 1.
- ↑ Dailey, Charles (April 27, 1930). "India Asks League for Help". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
- ↑ Jackson, Stanley (April 28, 1930). "London Talks to Canadian Train by Phone". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
- ↑ "Russia Opens New Railway in Asian Wilds". Chicago Daily Tribune. April 29, 1930. p. 8.
- ↑ "Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism". BiblioVault. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Eddleton, Oscar. "Under the Lights". Society for American Baseball Research. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Prager, Joshua (2008). The Echoing Green. Vintage Books. p. 39. ISBN 9780307389336.
- ↑ Eyman, Scott (2005). Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 162. ISBN 9781439107911.
- ↑ Darrah, David (May 1, 1930). "Italy Orders 29 Warahips; Naval Race On". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.