1930 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1930 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
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- 1 February – The Times publishes its first crossword.[1]
- March – fitness organisation the Women's League of Health and Beauty set up by Mary Bagot Stack; by 1939 it will have over 100,000 members.[2]
- 1 April – Poor law unions and workhouses abolished under the Local Government Act 1929, responsibility for public assistance transferring to local authorities and workhouses becoming hospitals or public assistance institutions under their control.
- 18 April - a BBC news reporter live on the radio announces “there is no news today.” For the first and last time in history.
- 22 April – the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
- 30 April – first section of the 132kV AC National Grid, the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, is switched on in Edinburgh.[3]
- 5 May – an explosion on the eleventh floor of Bibby's oil cake mill in Liverpool leaves five dead and almost one hundred injured.
- 5–24 May – Yorkshire-born Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (11,000 miles to landing at Darwin).[4]
- 28 May – the BBC Symphony Orchestra is formed as a permanent full-scale ensemble under the directorship of Adrian Boult. It gives its first concert on 22 October at the Queen's Hall, London.[5]
- 5 July – the Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference condones the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier.
- 10 July – Mental Treatment Act 1930 provides for free voluntary treatment for psychiatric conditions and for psychiatric outpatient clinics, replaces the term "asylum" with "mental hospital" and reorganises the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency.
- 14 July – transmission by the BBC of the first experimental television play, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth.[4]
- 29 July – British airship R100 sets out for a successful 78-hour passage to Canada.
- 7 August – two million people are unemployed.
- 16 August – the first British Empire Games are held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.[4]
- 29 August – remaining inhabitants of the island of St Kilda, Scotland, are voluntarily evacuated to the mainland.[6]
- 24 September – first performance of Noël Coward's comedy Private Lives at the Phoenix Theatre (London) featuring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier in the cast.[4]
- 1 October
- 14 miners are killed in an explosion in a coal pit near Cannock, Staffordshire.[7]
- End of Weihaiwei under British rule as it is returned to China.
- 5 October – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.[4]
- 6–10 October – annual Labour Party Conference (at Llandudno), the first chaired by a woman, Susan Lawrence, M.P.[8] Oswald Mosley unsuccessfully attempts to persuade it to adopt the 'Mosley Memorandum' on tackling unemployment.
- 20 October – the "Passfield white paper" demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine.[1]
- 12 November – first Round Table Conference on the future status of India opens in London.[1]
- 25 November – Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.[9]
- December – Youth Hostels Association opens its first hostel, at Pennant Hall near Llanrwst in North Wales.[10]
- 20 December – 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 actually to be present when the offence is carried out.[11]
- 24 December – in London, inventor Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
Undated
- 1930–1935 – unemployment averages more than 18% in Britain.
- Housing Act provides government subsidy for slum clearance,[12] and construction of further new council houses as replacements.[13]
- Start of local authorities' assisted wiring scheme to encourage people to connect their homes to the public electricity supply.[14]
- Poor Prisoners' Defence Act provides for limited extension of legal aid.
- Rosemary Bank is discovered approximately 120 km west of Scotland by survey vessel HMS Rosemary.
- Philco produces the first of its "Baby grand" designs of radio of which it will sell two million.[15]
Publications
- Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage.
- An Anthology of War Poems, compiled by Frederick Brereton.
- T. S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday.
- W. Somerset Maugham’s novel Cakes and Ale.
- J. B. Priestley's novel Angel Pavement.
- Arthur Ransome's children's novel Swallows and Amazons.
- W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman's parodic history book 1066 and All That.
- Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies.
Births
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- 26 January – John Straffen, serial killer (died 2007)
- 29 January – John Junkin, actor and screenwriter (died 2006)
- 1 February – Peter Tapsell, politician, Father of the House (died 2018)
- 6 February – Lionel Blue, rabbi (died 2016)
- 13 February – Ronald Stretton, track cyclist (died 2012)
- 7 March – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer and filmmaker (died 2017)
- 30 March – Nick Browne-Wilkinson, judge (died 2018)
- 8 April – Dorothy Tutin, actress (died 2001)
- 12 April – Bryan Magee, philosopher and politician
- 16 April – Alan Truscott, Anglo-American bridge player (died 2005)
- 17 April – Chris Barber, jazz trombonist
- 20 April – Antony Jay, writer, television scriptwriter, broadcaster and director (died 2016)
- 9 May – Joan Sims, actress (died 2001)
- 1 June – John Lemmon, logician and philosopher (died 1966)
- 7 June – Michael Baughen, bishop and hymn-writer
- 8 June – Michael Codron, producer and manager
- 11 June – Roy Fisher, poet and jazz pianist (died 2017)
- 21 June – Gerald Kaufman, politician, Father of the House (died 2017)
- 24 June – William Gaskill, theatre director (died 2016)
- 17 July – Ray Galton, scriptwriter (died 2018)
- 18 July – Burt Kwouk, film actor (died 2016)
- 27 July
- Bomber Wells, cricketer (died 2008)
- Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party
- 8 August – Barry Unsworth, novelist (died 2012)
- 13 August – Bernard Manning, comedian (died 2007)
- 14 August – Liz Fraser, actress (died 2018)
- 17 August – Ted Hughes, poet laureate (died 1998)
- 21 August – Princess Margaret Rose, later Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (died 2002)
- 25 August – Sean Connery, actor
- 28 August – Windsor Davies, actor
- 29 September – Colin Dexter, detective fiction writer (died 2017)
- 10 October – Harold Pinter, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)
- 18 October – David Tomblin, film director (died 2005)
- 27 October – Leo Baxendale, comic artist (died 2017)
- 28 October – Bernie Ecclestone, auto racing tycoon
- 30 October – Stanley Sadie, musicologist (died 2005)
- 14 November
- Shirley Crabtree, "Big Daddy", professional wrestler (died 1997)
- Elisabeth Frink, sculptor (died 1993)
- 15 November – J. G. Ballard, writer (died 2009)
- 22 November – Peter Hall, theatre director (died 2017)
- 1 December – Kenneth Box, track and field sprinter
- 4 December – Ronnie Corbett, comedian (died 2016)
- 10 December – Michael Jopling, farmer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
- 27 December – Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer (died 2011)
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 Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1848)
- 7 July – Arthur Conan Doyle, author (born 1859)
- 21 August – Aston Webb, architect (born 1849)
- 29 August – William Archibald Spooner, scholar, Anglican priest and metathesist (born 1844)
- 4 November – Evelyn Colyer, tennis player (born 1902)
- 27 November – Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer (born 1873)
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 372–373. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
- ↑ "The Fitness League History". Fitness League. Archived from the original on 29 July 2009. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
- ↑ Shaw, Alan (29 September 2005). "Kelvin to Weir, and on to GB SYS 2005" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9.
- ↑ Boult, Adrian (1973). My Own Trumpet. London: Hamish Hamilton. p. 99. ISBN 0241024455.
- ↑ "St Kilda". National Trust for Scotland. Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
- ↑ "Miners die in pit explosion". Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 2012-08-13.
- ↑ "The Labour Party Conference". The Times (45636). London. 6 October 1930. p. 11.
- ↑ Wainwright, M.; Swan, H. T. (1986). "C. G. Paine and the earliest surviving clinical records of penicillin therapy". Medical History. 30: 42–56. doi:10.1017/S0025727300045026. PMC 1139580. PMID 3511336.
- ↑ Coburn, Oliver (1950). Youth Hostel Story. London: National Council of Social Service.
- ↑ Slapper, Gary (23 June 2008). "The cases that changed Britain: 1917–1954". The Times. London. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
- ↑ The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. 1995. p. 391. ISBN 978-1-85585-178-8.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 2012-09-25.
- ↑ Biscoe, John. "History of public supply in the UK". Engineering Timelines. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
- ↑ Mahon, Morgan E. (1990). A Flick of the Switch 1930–1950. Antiques Electronics Supply. p. 116.
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