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The following events occurred in October 1930:

October 5, 1930: Forty-eight airline passengers and crew killed in the crash of the British dirigible R-101

Wednesday, October 1, 1930

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Thursday, October 2, 1930

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Friday, October 3, 1930

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Saturday, October 4, 1930

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  • The Cuban Congress granted the request of President Gerardo Machado to suspend constitutional rights in and around Havana until after general elections on November 1.[11]
  • In Germany, the Leipzig Supreme Court sentenced the three Reichswehr officers accused of high treason to eighteen months in prison.[12]

Sunday, October 5, 1930

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Monday, October 6, 1930

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Tuesday, October 7, 1930

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Wednesday, October 8, 1930

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Thursday, October 9, 1930

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Aviatrix Laura Ingalls

Friday, October 10, 1930

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Saturday, October 11, 1930

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Sunday, October 12, 1930

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  • Gangster Legs Diamond was shot five times by gunmen at the Monticello Hotel in New York, but survived.[22]
  • In Berlin, 100,000 German socialists held an anti-Nazi rally called by Reichstag President Paul Löbe. Nazis stood on the street heckling the paraders and 38 arrests were made as isolated fistfights broke out.[23]

Monday, October 13, 1930

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  • About 300 Nazis dressed in civilian clothes stormed downtown Berlin, smashing windows of mainly Jewish shops and firing pistols into the air as the Reichstag opened its first new session since the September 14 elections.[24][25] Nazi deputies caused an uproar by turning up in full party uniform, despite a rule against the wearing of such uniforms in the Reichstag.[26]
  • Born: Paul Kent, U.S. actor, in Brooklyn (d. 2011)

Tuesday, October 14, 1930

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Wednesday, October 15, 1930

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  • Half a million unemployed Germans, including 126,000 striking metal workers, paraded in Berlin.[28]
  • Pope Pius XI granted King Boris III of Bulgaria permission to marry Princess Giovanna of Italy, on the written promise from Boris that any children born would be raised as Roman Catholics. The Bulgarian constitution said that the country's monarch must be of Greek Orthodox faith.[29]
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  • Died: Herbert Henry Dow, 64, Canadian-born American chemical industrialist and founder of the Dow Chemical Company

Thursday, October 16, 1930

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Friday, October 17, 1930

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  • President Hoover announced the appointment of a new committee tasked with formulating plans for "continuing and strengthening the organization of Federal activities for employment during the winter."[32]
  • The magazine L'Ere Nouvelle published a letter by German industrialist Arnold Rechberg, describing an alleged Soviet plot offered to Fascist Italy and the Nazis. According to the plan, Rechberg wrote, Germany and the Soviet Union would simultaneously attack Poland, dividing it between themselves, and would then join together in attacking France. As the French retreated, Italy would cut them off with a sudden flank attack. Rechberg claimed the plot was taken seriously by Hitler's followers and that a communist-fascist alliance would be a danger to peace.[33]
  • Born:

Saturday, October 18, 1930

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Sunday, October 19, 1930

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Monday, October 20, 1930

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Tuesday, October 21, 1930

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Wednesday, October 22, 1930

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  • An amended constitution was enacted in Egypt, eliminating the clause making the cabinet answerable to Parliament.[43]
  • The Dutch football club SC Genemuiden was founded.

Thursday, October 23, 1930

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Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, Soong Mei-ling, a year after his conversion from Buddhist to Christian

Friday, October 24, 1930

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Saturday, October 25, 1930

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King Boris III and Queen Giovanna

Sunday, October 26, 1930

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  • Australian pilot Jessie Miller established a new women's west–east transcontinental flight record, completing a flight from Los Angeles to New York in 21 hours 47 minutes.[51]
  • Died: H. P. Whitney, 58, American businessman and horsebreeder

Monday, October 27, 1930

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Aftermath of the Wushe Incident
  • The Wushe Incident began in Taiwan when Seediq rebels raided Japanese facilities for weapons and then attacked the Japanese at an elementary school.
  • Benito Mussolini made a speech in the hall of the Palazzo Venezia saying he could foresee "a Fascist Europe which seeks the inspiration for its doctrines and its practices from Fascism, a Europe which solves, as Fascism does, the problems of a modern state in the twentieth century." Mussolini also accused Europe of hypocrisy when it "babbled about peace at Geneva but prepared for war everywhere", and claimed that Italy was only arming in self-defense.[52]

Tuesday, October 28, 1930

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  • King George V opened the seventh parliament of his reign.[53]
  • The German steelworker's strike was settled with the workers agreeing to a 3% wage reduction.[54]
  • Apple vendors became a common sight on New York city streets on the first day of a project to put unemployed people to work selling surplus apples. The project began in the Wall Street district and soon spread across the city. These apple sellers, accompanied by placards declaring their unemployed status and encouraging the public to buy apples, became one of the enduring images of the Great Depression even though the project lasted less than a year as the supply of cheap apples eventually ran out.[55][56]
  • Born: Bernie Ecclestone, English business magnate, and Chief Executive of the Formula One Group; in Bungay, Suffolk

Wednesday, October 29, 1930

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Thursday, October 30, 1930

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  • Turkey and Greece signed a treaty of friendship.[6]
  • Born: Timothy Findley, Canadian novelist and playwright, in Toronto (d. 2002)

Friday, October 31, 1930

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  • A Paris court granted actress Pola Negri a divorce from Prince Serge Mdivani. "I am happy to have finished with the divorce so I can consecrate my life entirely to art", Negri stated.[59]
  • Born: Michael Collins, U.S. astronaut who piloted the lunar orbiter during the Apollo 11 mission; in Rome, to U.S. military attaché to Italy James Lawton Collins and Virginia Stewart Collins (d. 2021)

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  2. ^ "Mussolini Urges Death Penalty for Speculators". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 2, 1930. p. 3.
  3. ^ Kinsley, Philip (October 2, 1930). "Business Safe, Recovery Sure, Economist Says". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
  4. ^ "28 Nations Sign War Loan Pact; Aids Attacked States". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 3, 1930. p. 3.
  5. ^ "London Sea Pact Signed by Mikado, Now in Full Effect". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 2, 1930. p. 3.
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  7. ^ "Text of Hoover's Address Before American Bankers' Convention in Cleveland". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 3, 1930. p. 2.
  8. ^ "Address to the American Bankers' Association. (October 2, 1930)". Miller Center of Public Affairs. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
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  11. ^ "Cuban Congress Votes to Make Machado Boss". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 4, 1930. p. 3.
  12. ^ "Tageseinträge für 4. Oktober 1930". chroniknet. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  13. ^ "Airships: R101 Crash". Airship Heritage Trust. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  14. ^ "German Plane Crash Kills 8 in Mystery Fall". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 6, 1930. p. 6.
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  16. ^ "Divorced Film Couple Get License to Rewed". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 8, 1930. p. 2.
  17. ^ "Miss Ingalls Sets New Flight Mark Across Continent". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 9, 1930. p. 7.
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  23. ^ Schultz, Sigrid (October 13, 1930). "100,000 Shake Fists at Fascist Party in Berlin". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 4.
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  27. ^ "Girl Crazy". Playbill Vault. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  28. ^ Schultz, Sigrid (October 16, 1930). "500,000 Idle Parade Berlin; Demand Work". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  29. ^ "Pope Permits Boris Wedding; Children Must Be Catholic". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 15, 1930. p. 1.
  30. ^ Hitt, Tarpley (29 April 2020). "The Strange Saga of FM-2030: A Futurist Genius Who Had Himself Frozen in Glass". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  31. ^ "Bishop Cannon Sues Hearst for Five Millions". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 17, 1930. p. 16.
  32. ^ Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Herbert Hoover, 1930. United States Government Printing Office. June 1999. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-16-058839-6.
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  37. ^ "Kingsford-Smith Beats Record in Australia Race". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 19, 1930. p. 7.
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  44. ^ Powell, John (October 24, 1930). "President of China Converted to Christianity". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 21.
  45. ^ "Warsaw Jews Stone British Envoy's Office". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 24, 1930. p. 21.
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  48. ^ "Rain Falls as Boris and Giovanna Wed; Royalty Is Drenched". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 25, 1930. p. 1.
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  50. ^ "Assassin Fires on Syrian Premier; Misses; Jailed". Chicago Daily Tribune. October 27, 1930. p. 7.
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  55. ^ "Jobless 1,000 Sell Apples on N.Y. Corners". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 8, 1930. p. 1.
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  59. ^ "Paris Court Cuts Nuptial Ties of Pola and Prince". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 1, 1930. p. 9.