1930
An NAACP campaign helps prevent confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee John H. Parker, onetime self-admitted opponent of the franchise for blacks. The NAACP also helps unseat three of the senators who voted for him in later Congressional elections.
1930
The word "racism" is coined sometime in the early 1930's (no one seems sure exactly when) to describe the claim of the Nazis and others that "race" determines culture. After WW2, biological and social science refuted the notion of racial hierarchy with its attendant claims of superiority, and at the same time, the idea that "races" are pure and distinct entities with all their members essentially looking alike and thinking alike. (Fredrickson)
1930
Fard Mohammed, founds the Temple of Islam in Detroit, Michigan. It will later become the "Black Muslims."
1930
The National Socialist Minister of the Interior of the
government of the Land of Thuringia invites "race-investigator" H. F.
K. Günther to a chair of social anthropology at the University of Jena,
against the wishes of the faculty. Professor Lenz comments: "We are happy
about the appointment itself, despite our reservations about the way in which it
was made." (Science)
1930
Ernst Roehm returns to Germany from Bolivia after a five year
absence and begins reorganizing the SA.
1930
Alfred Rosenberg publishes The Myth of the Twentieth
Century, calling for the doing away with of the "Jewish" Old
Testament, purging the New Testament of its "obviously distorted and
superstitious reports," and for the creation of a German Church anchored
not in abstract dogma and denomination, but in the forces of blood, race and
soil.
1930
Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch publishes a book entitled Doktor
Steiner-- ein Schwindler wie keiner, reviling Rudolf Steiner and the
Anthroposophy movement as another agent of the Jewish world conspiracy.
1930
From 1930 on, Henrich Himmler busies himself with a number of
projects designed to express the moral purpose and ideological mission of the
SS.
1930
The Cult of Our Lady of Fatima is authorized by the Catholic
church.
1930
Huey P. Long is elected to the U.S. Senate. Long will not
resign as governor of Louisiana until his handpicked successor, Oscar (O.K.)
Allen, is chosen to replace him in 1932.
1930
The London Naval Conference of 1930 extends the Washington
agreement to cruisers and destroyers, and regulates submarine warfare. Britain,
Japan, and the United States also accept a treaty limiting the size of
battleships. The Japanese will abrogate these treaties in 1934.
1930
American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto.
1930
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli becomes Papal Secretary of State under Pope Pius XI.
1930
British engineer Frank Whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.
1930
Haile Selassie is declared emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1930
The city of Constantinople is renamed Istanbul.
1930 February 23
Horst Wessel, Professor Horbiger's right-hand man, is killed by Communists and is soon transformed into yet another Nazi martyr.
1930 May 15
Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess, serving aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1930 May 18
Local Storm troopers (SA) attend religious services at the Cathedral of Regensburg, bringing with them their flags and banners.
1930 May 19
White women win the right to vote in South Africa.
1930 August 10
Rudolf Hess circles his M-23 Messerschmitt (painted with a black swastika) over a leftist meeting in Munich, drowning out the speakers. (Missing Years)
1930 August 23
Rudolf Gorsleben dies and Werner von Bulow takes over
the Edda Society's periodical, soon renaming it Hagal All All Hagal, and
later simply Hagal. (Roots)
1930 September 14
The Nazis become Germany's second largest party.
107 National Socialist deputies are elected to the Reichstag (20% of the
vote). Social Democrats remain the largest party in the Reichstag.
1930 November
Bishop Schreiber of Berlin indicates that Catholics
are not forbidden to become members of the Nazi party.
