1930 in the United States

1930
in
the United States

Decades:
See also:

Events from the year 1930 in the United States.

Incumbents

William Howard Taft (Ohio) (until February 3)
Charles Evans Hughes (New York) (starting February 13)

Events

January–March

April–June

May 20: Chrysler Building completed

July–September

October–December

Undated

  • A Jamaican ginger ("Jake") paralysis outbreak occurs across the South and Midwest.
  • 1930–1931 – Crazy Horse’s lifelong friend, He Dog, is interviewed by journalist Eleanor Hinman and Nebraska writer Mari Sandoz.
  • A record drought in the eastern part of the nation[5] sees Upper Tract, West Virginia record only 9.50 inches (241.3 mm) 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]

Ongoing

Births

January

Robert Loggia
Tippi Hedren
Buzz Aldrin
Gene Hackman

February

Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
Leon Cooper

March

James Irwin
Steve McQueen

April

Dick Sargent
Carolyn Jones

May

Mike Gravel
Harvey Milk
Clint Eastwood

June

Pete Conrad
Jim Nabors
Ross Perot

July

Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Jerry Vale
Polly Bergen
Paul Taylor

August

Neil Armstrong
Robert Culp

September

Ray Charles
John Young

October

The Big Bopper
Michael Collins

November

Mildred Dresselhaus
Ed White

December

Odetta

Deaths

William Howard Taft

See also

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