World Events

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2. By Elizabeth on Jun 1, 2008 | Reply

   World Events - The Year 1930.

   1930 was the first full year of the Great Depression.
   Britain, U.S., Japan, France, and Italy sign naval disarmament treaty.
   Cyclotron developed by Ernest O. Lawrence, U.S. physicist.
   Pluto discovered by astronomers.
   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, died.
   Agatha Christie’s mystery novel The Murder at the Vicarage is published.
   The Indian National Congress, meeting at Lahore, votes for the complete independence of India from Great Britain.
   The Union of South Africa gives white women the right to vote. Blacks of both sexes remain disenfranchised.
   In accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, Allied troops leave the Rhineland.
   French aviators Dieudonné Coste and Maurice Bellonte make the first nonstop flight from Paris to New York.
   In German national elections Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party wins ninety-five seats in the Reichstag.
   Newly elected **** delegates arrive in uniform at the German Reichstag, a violation of parliamentary rules.
   Thirty-nine-year-old Ras (Prince) Tafari takes the name Haile Selassie and is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. He will reign until 1974.
   Chinese Nationalist troops begin an offensive against Communist forces in Hunan, Hupeh, and Kiangsi provinces.
   In accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, Allied troops leave the Saarland.
   Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly alone from England to Australia.
   French aviator, Dieudonné Costes, completes the first nonstop flight from Paris to New York in 37 hours & 18 minutes.
   The death of William Howard Taft, the twenty-seventh President of the United States.
   Karl Landsteiner from America wins the Nobel Prize for discovering the 4 human blood groups A, B, AB, O.

3. By stephxlovee on Jun 1, 2008 | Reply

   It was when the Great Depression was occuring. Also, a lot of jazz and swing era artists were being discovered.

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