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1930
 
   
Conservative leader R.B. Bennett defeats the Liberals and becomes prime minister of Canada      
1930
 
    
French actor Jean Gabin makes his screen debut in Chacun sa Chance       
1930
 
     
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications        
1930
 
    
British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicts the existence of an anti-particle of the electron, first observed two years later and named the positron       
1930
 
     
Lewis Milestone makes a powerful film of Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, published in the previous year        
1930
 
     
Edward G. Robinson gives a chilling portrayal of a gangster loosely based on Al Capone in the film Little Caesar        
1930
 
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The Nazis become the second largest party in the Reichstag, winning 107 seats       
c. 1930
 
   
The steel-band tradition begins to develop in Trinidad, with adapted metal objects taking the place of traditional skin drums      
c. 1930
 
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A pregnant female hamster, captured in Syria, becomes the ancestor of every pet hamster in the world      
1930
 
    
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple makes her first appearance, in Murder at the Vicarage