17 June 1930

USA President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, also known as the Hawley-Smoot Tariff, was a U.S. legislation…

31 January 1930

3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Tape’]

6 August 1930

The judge, Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again. NEW YORK — You can come…

30 July 1930

Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup. The 1930 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match contested by Uruguay and Argentina to determine the…

18 February 1930

Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. Pluto, once believed to be the ninth planet, is discovered at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, by astronomer Clyde W….

18 February 1930

Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. On February 18, 1930, amateur astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered “Planet X” using an astrograph, which is essentially a space camera. Planet…

2 November 1930

Haile Selassie is crowned as the emperor of Ethiopia. Haile Selassie, is an emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 who sought to modernize his…

29 August 1930

The remaining 36 inhabitants of the isolated archipelago, St Kilda, are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. On 29 August 1930, a ship called…