1930 in the United States

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1930
in
the United States

Decades:
See also:

Events from the year 1930 in the United States.

Incumbents[edit]

Federal government[edit]

Events[edit]

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

May 20: Chrysler Building completed

July–September[edit]

October–December[edit]

Undated[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Births[edit]

January[edit]

Robert Loggia
Tippi Hedren
Buzz Aldrin
Gene Hackman

February[edit]

Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
Leon Cooper

March[edit]

James Irwin
Steve McQueen

April[edit]

Dick Sargent
Carolyn Jones

May[edit]

Mike Gravel
Harvey Milk
Clint Eastwood

June[edit]

Pete Conrad
Jim Nabors
Ross Perot

July[edit]

Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Jerry Vale
Polly Bergen
Paul Taylor

August[edit]

Neil Armstrong
Robert Culp

September[edit]

Ray Charles
John Young

October[edit]

The Big Bopper
Michael Collins

November[edit]

Mildred Dresselhaus
Ed White

December[edit]

Odetta

Deaths[edit]

William Howard Taft

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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