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1930 in the United States

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Events from the year 1930 in the United States.

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Incumbents

Federal government

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

Events

January–March

April–June

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May 20: Chrysler Building completed

July–September

October–December

Undated

  • 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

January

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Robert Loggia
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Tippi Hedren
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Buzz Aldrin
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Gene Hackman

February

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Robert Wagner
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Joanne Woodward
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Leon Cooper

March

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James Irwin
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Steve McQueen

April

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Dick Sargent
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Carolyn Jones

May

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Mike Gravel
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Harvey Milk
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Clint Eastwood

June

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Pete Conrad
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Jim Nabors
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Ross Perot

July

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Theodore McCarrick
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Jerry Vale
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Polly Bergen
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Paul Taylor

August

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Neil Armstrong
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Robert Culp

September

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Ray Charles
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John Young

October

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The Big Bopper
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Michael Collins

November

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Mildred Dresselhaus
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Ed White

December

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Odetta
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Deaths

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William Howard Taft
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See also

References

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