1930

Constantinople re-named Istanbul
Haile Selassie becomes Emperor of Ethiopia
Planet Pluto discovered
1st World Cup soccer match
1st American airline stewardesses
1st supermarkets
Bingo craze begins
Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon
Grant Wood's "American Gothic"
1st cyclotron
1st pinball machines
1st automotive diesel engine
Films - "Blue Angel" and "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Radio show - "The Shadow"
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Stephen Sondheim, Sandra Day O'Conner, Helmut Kohl, Clint Eastwood, Neil Armstrong, Sean Connery, Thomas Stafford, and Michael Collins born (1930 was a very good year for the US space program!)
William H. Taft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lon Chaney, Sr., D.H. Lawrence and Glenn Curtis die