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1930 in the United States

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1930
in
the United States

Decades:
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Events from the year 1930 in the United States.

Incumbents

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William Howard Taft (Ohio) (until February 3)
Charles Evans Hughes (New York) (starting February 13)

Demographics

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Events

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January–March

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April–June

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May 20: Chrysler Building completed

July–September

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October–December

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Undated

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  • 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

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Births

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January

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Robert Loggia
Tippi Hedren
Buzz Aldrin
Gene Hackman

February

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Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
Leon Cooper

March

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James Irwin
Steve McQueen

April

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Dick Sargent
Carolyn Jones

May

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Mike Gravel
Harvey Milk
Clint Eastwood

June

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Pete Conrad
Jim Nabors
Ross Perot

July

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Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Jerry Vale
Polly Bergen
Paul Taylor

August

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Neil Armstrong
Robert Culp

September

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Ray Charles
John Young

October

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The Big Bopper
Michael Collins

November

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Mildred Dresselhaus
Ed White

December

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Odetta

Deaths

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William Howard Taft

See also

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References

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