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The following events occurred in April 1930:

Tuesday, April 1, 1930

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Wednesday, April 2, 1930

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Emperor Haile Selassie

Thursday, April 3, 1930

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Friday, April 4, 1930

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  • Former U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg told a luncheon audience in Chicago that American isolationism was no longer viable. "A great nation like ours, with ten billions a year of foreign commerce, has as much to gain by the establishment of the World Court as any country in the world", he said.[12]
  • The American Interplanetary Society was founded to conduct rocket experiments. In 1934 the organization changed its name to the American Rocket Society.
Victoria of Sweden

Saturday, April 5, 1930

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Sunday, April 6, 1930

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Gandhi at the end of the March
A Twinkie

Monday, April 7, 1930

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Tuesday, April 8, 1930

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Wednesday, April 9, 1930

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Thursday, April 10, 1930

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Friday, April 11, 1930

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  • The Tokyo Stock Exchange was suspended early for the day due to a selling panic.[30]
  • Rioting was reported from Taranto, Italy due to economic conditions.[31]
  • American scientists predicted that man would land on the moon by 2050.[32]

Saturday, April 12, 1930

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Sunday, April 13, 1930

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  • Inspired by Gandhi's Salt March, 500,000 people in British India held an orderly demonstration in Bombay, defying the colonial law against private gathering of salt and throwing a monstrous effigy, representing the salt tax, into the Indian Ocean.[35]

Monday, April 14, 1930

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Mayakovsky, two months before his suicide

Tuesday, April 15, 1930

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Wednesday, April 16, 1930

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The President and Mrs. Hoover
  • First Lady Lou Henry Hoover suffered a back injury in a fall at the White House.[44] The injury was serious enough to require her to use a wheelchair during her recovery.[45]
  • Wilhelm Frick of the Nazi Party, the Interior Minister of the German state of Thuringia, introduced nationalistic new prayers to be recited in elementary schools. Liberals objected to the propagandistic content of the prayers and challenged their constitutionality in court.[46] One line read, "I believe that thou wilt punish the betrayal of Germany and bless the actions of those who seek to free the Fatherland."[47]
  • Born: Herbie Mann, jazz flautist, in Pecos, New Mexico (d. 2003)[48]

Thursday, April 17, 1930

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  • Twenty-seven Indian independence demonstrators were sentenced for breaking the salt laws, including Mahatma Gandhi's son Devdas, who received three months imprisonment. Mahatma Gandhi urged his followers to continue nonviolent forms of protest, saying that riots like the one in Calcutta "will harm our struggle."[49]
  • The Paraguayan soccer football club Club Sportivo San Lorenzo was founded.

Friday, April 18, 1930

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  • The BBC Radio news bulletin from London stated: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news." Piano music followed for roughly 15 minutes.[50][51][52]
  • A typhoon swept through Leyte in the Philippines, causing extensive damage.[53]
  • The Chittagong armoury raid occurred when Indian revolutionaries led by Surya Sen raided an armoury in the Bengal province of British India, seizing it and setting it on fire. Martial law was proclaimed and troops were called out to quell the uprising.[54][55]
  • A fire killed 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services. Candles being used in the service brushed against drapery and set it ablaze.[56]

Saturday, April 19, 1930

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  • Three people were killed and 36 injured in fighting between police and protestors in Warsaw, Poland when 2,000 unemployed textile workers surrounded city hall and threw stones at the building while demanding assistance.[57]
The forgotten first Looney Tunes character, "Bosko"

Sunday, April 20, 1930

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Monday, April 21, 1930

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The Ohio Penitentiary

Tuesday, April 22, 1930

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  • The London Naval Treaty was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, limiting the tonnage of warships until 1936. France and Italy were exempted from the section that set limitations on total tonnage, but it was hoped that they would sign on to the full treaty at a later date.[69]
  • Sixty-four British and Indian troops were killed in a battle to capture a group of revolutionaries who had participated in the Chittagong raid, while only 11 of the rebels died. The fight began after a group of 57 outlaws were surrounded at the Jalalabad mountain range by British Indian forces.[70]
  • Died: Jeppe Aakjær, 63, Danish poet and novelist[71]

Wednesday, April 23, 1930

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Thursday, April 24, 1930

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Friday, April 25, 1930

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Saturday, April 26, 1930

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Sunday, April 27, 1930

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Monday, April 28, 1930

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  • The Turkestan–Siberia Railway opened, connecting the cities of Arys and Novosibirsk. Construction of the remainder of the line would continue nine more months until January. When finished, the four-year project had cost over 161 million rubles.[84][85]
  • The Independence, Kansas, baseball team of the Class C Western Association hosted the first regular season night game in organized baseball history. The visiting Muskogee Chiefs beat the Independence Producers under the lights by a score of 13–3 before a crowd of 1,000.[86][87]
  • A solar eclipse occurred on this day, with the path of totality passing through the northwestern United States and across central and eastern Canada.[88]
  • Born: James Baker, U.S. Secretary of State, 1989 to 1992; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and White House Chief of Staff; in Houston, Texas.[89]
  • Died: Charles Grandmougin, 80, French poet and playwright[90]

Tuesday, April 29, 1930

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Wednesday, April 30, 1930

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  • Italy decreed that its naval construction program for the next year would consist of 29 new ships totalling 42,900 tons, an increase of 12,000 tons over the previous year.[93]
  • The Dutch football club Ter Leede was founded.

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