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1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933. 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code becomes set of industry censorship guidelines governing production of the vast majority of United States motion pictures released by major studios; is effective for 38 years
America in the 1930s Extensive library of projects on America in the Great Depression from American Studies at the University of Virginia; The 1930s Timeline year by year timeline of events in science and technology, politics and society, culture and international events with embedded audio and video. AS@UVA
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 ...
The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the causes, course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in Light of History (1986) Grossman, Mark. Encyclopedia of the Interwar Years: From 1919 to 1939 (2000). 400 pp. worldwide coverage; Kindleberger, Charles P.
Frank Ramsey, American professional basketball player, coach (d. 2018) July 15. Clive Cussler, American thriller writer and underwater explorer (d. 2020) Joanna Merlin, American actress and casting director (d. 2023) July 16 – Norm Sherry, American Major League Baseball catcher, manager, and coach (d. 2021) July 18 – Maury Duncan, American ...
August 3 – Vera Katz, American politician (d. 2017) August 7 Elinor Ostrom, American economist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012) Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction writer (d. 2017) August 8 – Carmine Persico, American mobster and convicted racketeer (d. 2019) August 10 Doyle Brunson, American poker player (d. 2023)
Moffett Federal Airfield Transfers to NASA Ames Research Center NASA, owner of the adjacent Ames Research Center, assumed control of the NAS Moffett Field facility. Supervision of NAS Moffett Field's two runways, three aircraft hangars, and 3.5 million square feet of facilities was turned over to the NASA Ames Research Center. As the new ...
Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)