February 1930

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February 18, 1930: Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers a ninth planet, Pluto
February 13, 1930: Charles Evans Hughes, who lost the 1916 U.S. presidential election to Woodrow Wilson, confirmed as new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to replace William Howard Taft, who lost the 1912 U.S. presidential election to Woodrow Wilson
February 21, 1930: Camille Chautemps becomes Prime Minister of France, government collapses 10 days later

The following events occurred in February 1930:

Saturday, February 1, 1930

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Sunday, February 2, 1930

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Chief Justice and former U.S. President Taft
The plaque [5]

Monday, February 3, 1930

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Tuesday, February 4, 1930

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  • The Prussian Minister of the Interior, Albert Grzesinski, forbade members of subversive parties and organizations to hold leading positions in local government. The regulation was mainly aimed at Nazis and Communists.[8]
  • The American School of the Air, the first half-hour educational radio program, made its debut on the CBS Radio Network at 2:30 in the afternoon Eastern time, to be listened to on radios in school classrooms nationwide. [9] The program would run until 1948.

Wednesday, February 5, 1930

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Pascual Ortiz, sworn in and wounded on same day

Thursday, February 6, 1930

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Friday, February 7, 1930

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Saturday, February 8, 1930

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Sunday, February 9, 1930

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Monday, February 10, 1930

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Tuesday, February 11, 1930

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  • At the London Naval Conference, the United States and Britain proposed the abolition of submarines, but France and Japan resisted.[21]
  • Born: Mary Quant, fashion designer, in Blackheath, London, England; (d. 2023)

Wednesday, February 12, 1930

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Thursday, February 13, 1930

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Friday, February 14, 1930

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  • The engagement of Edda Mussolini and Galeazzo Ciano was announced.[23]
  • The Vatican sent a note to bishops and clergy around the world instructing them to deny rites such as holy communion, baptism and confirmation to women dressed in immodest attire.[24]
  • Died: Sir Thomas Mackenzie, 75, Scottish-born politician who served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from March 28 to July 10 in 1912. He later served as New Zealand's diplomatic representative, the High Commissioner, until 1920.[25]

Saturday, February 15, 1930

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Sunday, February 16, 1930

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Monday, February 17, 1930

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Tuesday, February 18, 1930

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Pluto in 2015
  • Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the ninth planet, Pluto.[33] In 2006, the International Astronomical Union would reclassify the definition of planets and declare that Earth was one of only eight, rather than nine, planets in our solar system.
  • Representatives of the United States, Britain, Norway, the Netherlands and Brazil signed a pact in Nanjing bringing foreign lawyers under the jurisdiction and control of the Chinese government.[34]
  • The bodies of explorer Carl Ben Eielson and his mechanic, Earl Borland, were recovered from the site of their plane crash in Siberia. The plane went down on November 9 while trying to reach the stranded ship Nanuk.[35]
  • Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane, as part of the International Air Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.[36]
  • Ho Chi Minh gave the speech "Appeal Made on the Occasion of the Founding of the Indochinese Communist Party" calling for a people's communist revolution.[37]

Wednesday, February 19, 1930

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  • The London Naval Conference was adjourned for a week to give France time to form a new government.[38]
  • Born: John Frankenheimer, American film director, in Queens, New York (d. 2002)[39]

Thursday, February 20, 1930

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Prime Minister Hamaguchi

Friday, February 21, 1930

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Saturday, February 22, 1930

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Sunday, February 23, 1930

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Monday, February 24, 1930

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  • While lying in his hospital bed, Chicago gangster Frank McErlane was shot three times by rival gang members. McErlane, whose fractured right leg was in a cast while recovering from a previous shootout, returned fire and the two assailants fled.[47]
  • Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King said that he would immediately call a new federal election on the issue of the American tariff if the U.S. government boosted its tariff against Canada.[48]
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Wurzbach.
  • Born: Anita Steckel, US artist and feminist, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)[49]

Tuesday, February 25, 1930

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  • The Camille Chautemps government fell on a confidence vote after less than a week in power. He had tried to form a left-wing coalition but the Socialist Party refused to support him when he vowed to continue the naval policy of the previous government at the London Conference instead of adopting a more conciliatory one.[50]
  • The British bill to abolish blasphemy as a crime was dropped.[2]

Wednesday, February 26, 1930

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Thursday, February 27, 1930

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Friday, February 28, 1930

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