In 1930...
• The Great Depression of the United States was just beginning.
• President Hoover asked Congress for a $150 million public works program to help stimulate the economy.
• Alcohol was still prohibited in the U.S.
• The Mickey Mouse comic strip made its debut.
• Warner Brothers began producing the Looney Tunes animated films.
• The Shadow radio series started airing in the U.S.
• Betty Boop appeared in an animated film for the first time.
• The first cow to ever fly in an airplane also became the first cow milked during a flight.
• Boeing Air Transport, later United Air Lines, hired Ellen Church, a nurse, to become the world's first flight attendant.
• The Moon achieved perigee with Earth. It won't happen again until 2257.
• The 3M company started selling Scotch Tape to U.S. consumers.
• Hostess invented the Twinkie.
• Pluto was discovered and classified as a planet.
• Buzz Aldrin was born.
• Neil Armstrong was born.
• George Steinbrenner was born.
• Princess Margaret was born.
• Hafez al-Assad was born.
• Arlen Specter was born.
• Harvey Milk was born.
• Ali al-Sistani was born.
• Geroge Soros was born.
• Warren Buffet was born.
• Ross Perot was born.
• Tom Wolfe was born.
• Ornette Coleman was born.
• Pat Robertson was born.
• Stephen Sonheim was born.
• Sean Connery was born.
• Gena Rowlands was born.
• Steve McQueen was born.
• Gene Hackman was born.
• Clint Eastwood was born.
• Sandra Day O'Connor was born.
• James Baker was born.
• G. Gordon Liddy was born.
• Sonny Rollins was born.
• Odetta was born.
• Jean-Luc Godard was born.
• Shel Silverstein was born.
• Anton LaVey was born.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died.
• Trujillo began his tyrannical rule of the Dominican Republic, while a military coup happened in Argentina, and a military junta took control of Peru.
• Purna Swaraj (complete self-rule independent of the U.K.) was declared in India, but the British did not transfer power until 1947.
• The Nazis became the second-largest political party in Germany.
• Marxists Vietnamese groups came together at a conference in Hong Kong to establish The Communist Party of Vietnam.
• The Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues became the first big-league baseball team to play night games under artificial lights.
• France's Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in FIFA World Cup history and Uruguay defeated Argentina to became the first World Cup champions.
• The first televised commercial aired in the United States.
• The "Hayes Code" began its 40-year reign as the motion picture industry's guide for censoring films in the U.S.
• Danish painter Lili Elbe traveled to Germany for gender-reassignment surgery.
• Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul.