What major world events happened during the year of 1930?
World Events – The Year 1930. 1930 was the first full year of the Great Depression. Britain, U.S., Japan, France, and Italy sign naval disarmament treaty. Cyclotron developed by Ernest O. Lawrence, U.S. physicist. Pluto discovered by astronomers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, died. Agatha Christie’s mystery novel The Murder at the Vicarage is published. The Indian National Congress, meeting at Lahore, votes for the complete independence of India from Great Britain. The Union of South Africa gives white women the right to vote. Blacks of both sexes remain disenfranchised. In accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, Allied troops leave the Rhineland. French aviators Dieudonné Coste and Maurice Bellonte make the first nonstop flight from Paris to New York. In German national elections Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party wins ninety-five seats in the Reichstag. Newly elected Nazi delegates arrive in uniform at the German Reichstag, a violation of parliamen
