The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by English author A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
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 officially redefined as a dwarf planet.
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.
July 26 – Charles Creighton and James Hargis leave New York City for Los Angeles on a roundtrip journey, driving 11,555km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days.
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 15 – Jean Harlow has her first major film role, in Howard Hughes' epic war film Hell's Angels. Her platinum hair and sensual persona cause an immediate sensation, turning her into one of the decade's most iconic and discussed film stars.
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.
Undated
A Jamaican ginger ("Jake") paralysis outbreak occurs across the South and Midwest.
A record drought in the eastern part of the nation[5] sees Upper Tract, West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3mm) of precipitation for the year – the record lowest for a calendar year in the US east of the Mississippi.[6] Averaged over the contiguous US the twelve months from July 1930 to June 1931 remains the driest such period on record.[7]
↑ De Witt, Howard A. (1979). "The Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot of 1930: A Case Study of the Great Depression and Ethnic Conflict in California". Southern California Quarterly. 61 (3): 290.
↑ Dunn, J. R. (2005). "John Nathan Cobb (1868-1930): Founding director of the College of Fisheries, University of Washington, Seattle". Mar. Fish. Rev. 65 (3): 1–24.
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↑ Fishinger, Sondra. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 1852–1930", in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997: 139. ISBN0-8156-0418-1
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