1930 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1930 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, Labour
[edit] Events
- 1 February - The Times publishes its first crossword.[1]
- 22 April - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- 5 May - An explosion on the eleventh floor of Bibby's Oil cake mill in Liverpool leaves five dead and almost one hundred injured.
- 24 May - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on 5 May for the 11,000 mile flight).[2]
- 14 July - Transmission by the BBC of the first experimental television play, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth.[2]
- 16 August - the first British Empire Games are held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.[2]
- 24 September - First performance of Noel Coward's play Private Lives at the Phoenix Theatre, London featuring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier in the cast.[2]
- 5 October - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.[2]
- 20 October - British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine.[1]
- 12 November - Round Table Conference on the future status of India opens in London.[1]
- 24 December - In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
[edit] Undated
- 1930-1935 - Unemployment averages more than 18% in Britain.
- R v Betts and Ridley - a landmark case in English criminal law which establishes that to be convicted of a crime, it is not necessary for an accessory to actually be present when the offence is carried out.[3]
[edit] Publications
- Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage.
- T. S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday.
- Arthur Ransome's children's novel Swallows and Amazons.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman's book 1066 and All That.
- Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies.
[edit] Births
- 26 January - John Straffen, serial killer
- 13 February - Ronald Stretton, track cyclist
- 7 March - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer and filmmaker
- 8 April - Dorothy Tutin, actress (died 2001)
- 17 April - Chris Barber, jazz trombonist
- 9 May - Joan Sims, actress (died 2001)
- 27 July - Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party
- 8 August - Barry Unsworth, novelist
- 13 August - Bernard Manning, comedian (died 2007)
- 17 August - Ted Hughes, poet (died 1998)
- 21 August - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (died 2002)
- 25 August - Sean Connery, actor
- 28 August - Windsor Davies, actor
- 10 October - Harold Pinter, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 28 October - Bernie Ecclestone, auto racing tycoon
- 14 November - Shirley Crabtree, professional wrestler (died 1997)
- 15 November - J. G. Ballard, writer (died 2009)
- 22 November - Peter Hall, theatre director
- 1 December - Kenneth Box, track and field sprinter
- 4 December - Ronnie Corbett, comedian
- 27 December - Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer
[edit] Deaths
- 19 January - Frank P. Ramsey, mathematician (born 1903)
- 2 March - D. H. Lawrence, writer (born 1885)
- 19 March - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1848)
- 21 April - Robert Bridges, poet (born 1844)
- 25 May - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1848)
- 7 July - Arthur Conan Doyle, author (born 1859)
- 29 August - William Archibald Spooner, scholar and Anglican priest (born 1844)
- 27 November - Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer (born 1873)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 372-373. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d e Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ "The cases that changed Britain: 1917-1954". Times Online. 23 June 2008. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4179652.ece. Retrieved on 31 March 2009.
