Top News Stories from 1930

World Events

• Britain, U.S., Japan, France, and Italy sign naval disarmament treaty.
• Nazis gain in German elections.
• Haile Selassie becomes emperor of Ethiopia.

U.S. Events

• Unemployment soars, prompting President Hoover to appoint a Commission for Unemployment Relief.
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is passed by Congress. The act brings retaliatory tariff acts from foreign countries, U.S. foreign trade suffers a sharp decline, and the depression intensifies.
• N.Y. Supreme Court Judge Joseph Crater withdraws all his money from the bank, sells his stock, and disappears. His fate is never learned.

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

World Cup

Entertainment

Events

• Crossley Inc. tabulates the first formal radio ratings system.
• Jean Rosenthal, one of the greatest lighting designers in theater history, pioneers the concept of stage lighting.
• As head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, William Hays establishes a code of decency that outlines what is acceptable in films.
• Grant Wood paints American Gothic.

Science

• Astronomers discover Pluto, the ninth planet.
• Robert R. Williams determines the chemical structure of the vitamin thiamine.
• Vannevar Bush builds "differential analyzer"--first analog computer.

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