October 1930

The following events occurred in October 1930:

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October 5, 1930: Forty-eight airline passengers and crew killed in the crash of the British dirigible R-101

Wednesday, October 1, 1930

Thursday, October 2, 1930

Friday, October 3, 1930

Saturday, October 4, 1930

  • The Cuban Congress granted the request of President Gerardo Machado to suspend constitutional rights in and around Havana until after general elections on November 1.[11]
  • In Germany, the Leipzig Supreme Court sentenced the three Reichswehr officers accused of high treason to eighteen months in prison.[12]

Sunday, October 5, 1930

Monday, October 6, 1930

Tuesday, October 7, 1930

Wednesday, October 8, 1930

Thursday, October 9, 1930

Aviatrix Laura Ingalls

Friday, October 10, 1930

Saturday, October 11, 1930

Sunday, October 12, 1930

  • Gangster Legs Diamond was shot five times by gunmen at the Monticello Hotel in New York, but survived.[22]
  • In Berlin, 100,000 German socialists held an anti-Nazi rally called by Reichstag President Paul Löbe. Nazis stood on the street heckling the paraders and 38 arrests were made as isolated fistfights broke out.[23]

Monday, October 13, 1930

  • About 300 Nazis dressed in civilian clothes stormed downtown Berlin, smashing windows of mainly Jewish shops and firing pistols into the air as the Reichstag opened its first new session since the September 14 elections.[24][25] Nazi deputies caused an uproar by turning up in full party uniform, despite a rule against the wearing of such uniforms in the Reichstag.[26]
  • Born: Paul Kent, U.S. actor, in Brooklyn (d. 2011)

Tuesday, October 14, 1930

Wednesday, October 15, 1930

  • Half a million unemployed Germans, including 126,000 striking metal workers, paraded in Berlin.[28]
  • Pope Pius XI granted King Boris III of Bulgaria permission to marry Princess Giovanna of Italy, on the written promise from Boris that any children born would be raised as Roman Catholics. The Bulgarian constitution said that the country's monarch must be of Greek Orthodox faith.[29]
  • Born:
  • Died: Herbert Henry Dow, 64, Canadian-born American chemical industrialist and founder of the Dow Chemical Company

Thursday, October 16, 1930

Friday, October 17, 1930

  • President Hoover announced the appointment of a new committee tasked with formulating plans for "continuing and strengthening the organization of Federal activities for employment during the winter."[32]
  • The magazine L'Ere Nouvelle published a letter by German industrialist Arnold Rechberg, describing an alleged Soviet plot offered to Fascist Italy and the Nazis. According to the plan, Rechberg wrote, Germany and the Soviet Union would simultaneously attack Poland, dividing it between themselves, and would then join together in attacking France. As the French retreated, Italy would cut them off with a sudden flank attack. Rechberg claimed the plot was taken seriously by Hitler's followers and that a communist-fascist alliance would be a danger to peace.[33]
  • Born:

Saturday, October 18, 1930

Sunday, October 19, 1930

Monday, October 20, 1930

Tuesday, October 21, 1930

Wednesday, October 22, 1930

  • An amended constitution was enacted in Egypt, eliminating the clause making the cabinet answerable to Parliament.[43]
  • The Dutch football club SC Genemuiden was founded.

Thursday, October 23, 1930

Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, Soong Mei-ling, a year after his conversion from Buddhist to Christian

Friday, October 24, 1930

Saturday, October 25, 1930

King Boris III and Queen Giovanna

Sunday, October 26, 1930

  • Australian pilot Jessie Miller established a new women's west–east transcontinental flight record, completing a flight from Los Angeles to New York in 21 hours 47 minutes.[51]
  • Died: H. P. Whitney, 58, American businessman and horsebreeder

Monday, October 27, 1930

Aftermath of the Wushe Incident
  • The Wushe Incident began in Taiwan when Seediq rebels raided Japanese facilities for weapons and then attacked the Japanese at an elementary school.
  • Benito Mussolini made a speech in the hall of the Palazzo Venezia saying he could foresee "a Fascist Europe which seeks the inspiration for its doctrines and its practices from Fascism, a Europe which solves, as Fascism does, the problems of a modern state in the twentieth century." Mussolini also accused Europe of hypocrisy when it "babbled about peace at Geneva but prepared for war everywhere", and claimed that Italy was only arming in self-defense.[52]

Tuesday, October 28, 1930

  • King George V opened the seventh parliament of his reign.[53]
  • The German steelworker's strike was settled with the workers agreeing to a 3% wage reduction.[54]
  • Apple vendors became a common sight on New York city streets on the first day of a project to put unemployed people to work selling surplus apples. The project began in the Wall Street district and soon spread across the city. These apple sellers, accompanied by placards declaring their unemployed status and encouraging the public to buy apples, became one of the enduring images of the Great Depression even though the project lasted less than a year as the supply of cheap apples eventually ran out.[55][56]
  • Born: Bernie Ecclestone, English business magnate, and Chief Executive of the Formula One Group; in Bungay, Suffolk

Wednesday, October 29, 1930

Thursday, October 30, 1930

  • Turkey and Greece signed a treaty of friendship.[6]
  • Born: Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright, in Toronto (d. 2002)

Friday, October 31, 1930

  • A Paris court granted actress Pola Negri a divorce from Prince Serge Mdivani. "I am happy to have finished with the divorce so I can consecrate my life entirely to art", Negri stated.[59]
  • Born: Michael Collins, U.S. astronaut who piloted the lunar orbiter during the Apollo 11 mission; in Rome, to U.S. military attaché to Italy James Lawton Collins and Virginia Stewart Collins (d. 2021)

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  1. Steele, John (October 2, 1930). "Dominions Warn Britain to Grant More Freedom". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 11.
  2. "Mussolini Urges Death Penalty for Speculators". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 2, 1930. p. 3.
  3. Kinsley, Philip (October 2, 1930). "Business Safe, Recovery Sure, Economist Says". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
  4. "28 Nations Sign War Loan Pact; Aids Attacked States". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 3, 1930. p. 3.
  5. "London Sea Pact Signed by Mikado, Now in Full Effect". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 2, 1930. p. 3.
  6. Mercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
  7. "Text of Hoover's Address Before American Bankers' Convention in Cleveland". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 3, 1930. p. 2.
  8. "Address to the American Bankers' Association. (October 2, 1930)". Miller Center of Public Affairs. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
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  10. Appleby, David P. (2002). Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Life (1887–1959). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-8108-4149-9.
  11. "Cuban Congress Votes to Make Machado Boss". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 4, 1930. p. 3.
  12. "Tageseinträge für 4. Oktober 1930". chroniknet. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  13. "Airships: R101 Crash". Airship Heritage Trust. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  14. "German Plane Crash Kills 8 in Mystery Fall". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 6, 1930. p. 6.
  15. "October 6, 1930". Plane Crash Info. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  16. "Divorced Film Couple Get License to Rewed". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 8, 1930. p. 2.
  17. "Miss Ingalls Sets New Flight Mark Across Continent". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1930. p. 7.
  18. "The Great Depression and Dow Jones Industrial Average". Generational Dynamics. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  19. "Thousands Weep Before Biers of 48 Airship Dead". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 11, 1930. p. 10.
  20. Snyder, John (2010). 365 Oddball Days in Chicago Cubs History. Cincinnati: Clerisy Press. ISBN 978-1-57860-417-3.
  21. "Leader of Gandhi Revolt Freed from India Prison". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 12, 1930. p. 6.
  22. "Shoot New York Gang Chief". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 13, 1930. p. 1.
  23. Schultz, Sigrid (October 13, 1930). "100,000 Shake Fists at Fascist Party in Berlin". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 4.
  24. "Berlin Fascists Riot at Opening Of new Reichstag". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 13, 1930. p. 1.
  25. Gellately, Robert (2007). Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. Vintage Books. p. 215. ISBN 978-1-4000-3213-6.
  26. "Rioting Marks First Day of New Reichstag". Hamilton Daily News. Hamilton, Ohio: 1. October 13, 1930.
  27. "Girl Crazy". Playbill Vault. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  28. Schultz, Sigrid (October 16, 1930). "500,000 Idle Parade Berlin; Demand Work". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  29. "Pope Permits Boris Wedding; Children Must Be Catholic". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 15, 1930. p. 1.
  30. Hitt, Tarpley (29 April 2020). "The Strange Saga of FM-2030: A Futurist Genius Who Had Himself Frozen in Glass". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  31. "Bishop Cannon Sues Hearst for Five Millions". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 17, 1930. p. 16.
  32. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Herbert Hoover, 1930. United States Government Printing Office. June 1999. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-16-058839-6.
  33. Taylor, Edmond (October 18, 1930). "Plan to Seize Europe". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 8.
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  37. "Kingsford-Smith Beats Record in Australia Race". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 19, 1930. p. 7.
  38. Shirer, William (October 20, 1930). "Warrior Takes Aghan Throne Amid Glitter". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
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  40. "Seize "Bugs" Moran in Raid". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 21, 1930. p. 1.
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  43. Khan, Noor-Aiman I. (24 October 2011). Egyptian-Indian Nationalist Collaboration and the British Empire. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-230-33951-4.
  44. Powell, John (October 24, 1930). "President of China Converted to Christianity". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 21.
  45. "Warsaw Jews Stone British Envoy's Office". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 24, 1930. p. 21.
  46. Holston, Kim R. (2013). Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-0-7864-6062-5.
  47. Darrah, David (October 25, 1930). "Rebrls Victors in Sudden Coup; Jail President". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  48. "Rain Falls as Boris and Giovanna Wed; Royalty Is Drenched". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 25, 1930. p. 1.
  49. Schultz, Sigrid (October 26, 1930). "Blast in German Mine Kills 110 Trapped in Pit". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 3.
  50. "Assassin Fires on Syrian Premier; Misses; Jailed". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 27, 1930. p. 7.
  51. "British Aviatrix is Now Holder of Two Across U.S. Records". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 27, 1930. p. 2.
  52. Allen, Jay (October 28, 1930). "Peace Talk Fraudulent". Chicago Daily Tribune. pp. 1–2.
  53. Steele, John (October 29, 1930). "44 Tory Chiefs Tell Baldwin to Drop Reins". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 15.
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  55. "Jobless 1,000 Sell Apples on N.Y. Corners". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 8, 1930. p. 1.
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  57. "Express Derailed". The Straits Times. Singapore: 11. October 30, 1930.
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  59. "Paris Court Cuts Nuptial Ties of Pola and Prince". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 1, 1930. p. 9.
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