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1930
 
    
Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children       
1930
 
    
The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year       
1930
 
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Getúlio Vargas begins a 24-year personal rule in Brazil      
1930
 
    
US crime-writer Dashiell Hammett publishes The Maltese Falcon, the novel in which he introduces his sardonic private eye, Sam Spade       
1930
 
    
Wolfgang Pauli announces his mathematical proof of the existence of the particle subsequently known as the neutrino       
1930
 
    
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act introduces a US protectionist policy       
1930
 
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The Allies withdraw their occupying forces from Germany's Rhineland, five years ahead of schedule      
c. 1930
 
    
Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)       
1930
 
    
US golfer Bobby Jones retires after winning his thirteenth major in eight years       
1930
 
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Rafael Trujillo establishes a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic that will last for 30 years