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| 1930 |
| | | The airship R101, designed by a UK Air Ministry team, explodes on its maiden vogage, killing all but four of those on board | |
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| 1930 |
| | | 'Garbo talks' and breaks box office records in her first sound film, Anna Christie, directed by Clarence Brown | |
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| 1930 |
| | | In his novel As I Lay Dying William Faulkner follows the journey of a coffin in a mule-drawn wagon | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The Camargo Society, founded to promote British dancers and choreographers, presents its first evening of ballet in London | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The New Zealand racehorse Phar Lap wins huge popularity after an easy victory in the Melbourne Cup | |
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| c. 1930 |
| | | The Rastafarian cult evolves in Jamaica, viewing Ras Tafari, the emperor of Ethiopia, as the black Messiah | |
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| 1930 |
| | | English composer John Ireland's Piano Concerto has its first performance | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US inventor Richard Drew develops Scotch Brand Cellulose Tape, the world's first transparent tape | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Wallace D. Fard founds the Nation of Islam as a black separatist movement in the USA | |
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| 1930 |
| | | Australian-born composer Percy Grainger writes variations on Handel's tune The Harmonious Blacksmith | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US author John Dos Passos publishes the first novel of his trilogy The 42nd Parallel | |
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| 1930 |
| | | US choreographer Busby Berkeley moves to Hollywood to provide the first of his famous dance spectaculars, in Whoopee | |
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| 1930 |
| | | A spoof history text book, 1066 and all that, is justifiably described by its authors, Walter Sellar and Robert Yeatman, as a Memorable History of England | |
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| 1930 |
| | | The British Broadcasting Corporation forms a Symphony Orchestra with Adrian Boult as the first music director | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth | |
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| 1931 |
| | | US gangster Al Capone, never convicted of murder, begins an 8-year-spell in jail for tax evasion | |
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| 1931 |
| | | US actress Bette Davis moves to Hollywood and appears in her first film, The Bad Sister | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | 25 million peasants are moved from the land to provide cheap labour in Stalin's new factories | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia | |
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| 1931 |
| | | US critic Edmund Wilson publishes Axel's Castle, a collection of essays about writers in the symbolist tradition | |
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| 1931 |
| | | US film star James Cagney has a great success in the first of his many gangster roles, in The Public Enemy | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Nine black teenagers, known as the Scottsboro Boys, are wrongly convicted of gang rape in a notorious US race-relations case | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Frederick Ashton choreographs Façade for the Camargo Society, using Walton's score | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite | |
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| 1931 |
| | | President Hoover switches on the lights to inaugurate the world's new tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building in New York | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The gold standard is abandoned throughout the world after massive capital outflows cause the United Kingdom to pull out of the system | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The US poet Ogden Nash has an immediate success with his first volume of poems, Hard Lines | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Star-Spangled Banner is made the official US national anthem | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Geoffrey De Havilland designs the Tiger Moth, on which nearly all British pilots were trained during World War II | |
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| 1931 |
| | | A dance company, brought together by Ninette de Valois as the Vic-Wells Ballet, begins performing at Sadler's Wells | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels makes Der Führer a compulsory term for Hitler in the Nazi party | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Irish government classifies the Irish Republican Army as an illegal organization | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Amid political crisis Labour-leader Ramsay MacDonald forms an all-party National Government in Britain | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin makes City Lights, in which the tramp befriends and helps a blind flower girl | |
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