01 Jan 1930
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history
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Köln was commissioned into service.
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06 Jan 1930
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history
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Heinrich Himmler was named the leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS) organization within the Nazi Party.
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08 Jan 1930
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history
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Princess Marie-José of Belgium married Prince Umberto of Piemonte in Rome, Italy.
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15 Jan 1930
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history
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Cruiser Köln was commissioned into service with Fregattenkapitän Ludwig von Schröder at the helm.
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20 Jan 1930
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history
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Hamilton was commissioned into service.
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28 Jan 1930
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history
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HMS Hermes arrived in Nanjing, China with the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Lampson, aboard.
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06 Feb 1930
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history
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Pensacola was commissioned into service.
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14 Feb 1930
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history
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French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc was named.
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15 Feb 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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Death of Franklin L. Sheppard, 78. He served on the editorial committee of the 1911 edition of the Presbyterian Hymnal, but is better remembered for composing the hymn tune TERRA BEATA, to which "This Is My Father's World" is most commonly sung.
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17 Feb 1930
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history
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Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.
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21 Feb 1930
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history
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Chen Shaokuan spoke over the Chinese government radio, lobbying for funding for a 600,000-ton Chinese Navy.
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22 Feb 1930
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history
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Semyon Timoshenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the third time.
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22 Feb 1930
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history
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Kliment Voroshilov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the fourth time.
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02 Mar 1930
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history
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HMS Hermes departed Nanjing, China for Shanghai, China.
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02 Mar 1930
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history
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Josias joined the SS organization of the Nazi Party.
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10 Mar 1930
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history
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He Yingqin was named Chiang Kaishek's chief of staff for military affairs.
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15 Mar 1930
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history
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Tatsuta Maru was completed.
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22 Mar 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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Birthday of Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson, religious broadcaster, politician and founder in 1963 of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN).
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29 Mar 1930
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history
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The Blackshirt combat legions in Italy were attached to army divisions.
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06 Apr 1930
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history
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Josias was promoted to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer.
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07 Apr 1930
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history
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The Prison and Concentration camp system in Russia was reformed under the "Law on the Corrective Labour Camps". The OGPU camps were now grouped under the Main Administration of Corrective Labour Camps and Labour Settlements (GUITLTP) headed by OGPU official, Lazar Kogan, which was informally shortened to Gulag or Main Administration Camps, by which it has been known ever since.
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18 Apr 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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American pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a missionary in the Philippines, wrote in a letter: 'After an hour of close friendship with God, my soul feels clean as new fallen snow.'
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19 Apr 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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American pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a missionary in the Philippines, wrote in a letter: 'Fellowship with God is like a delicate little plant, for a long nurturing is the price of having it, while it vanishes in a second of time, as soon as we try to seat some other unworthy affection beside Him.'
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24 Apr 1930
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history
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Major General Takeshi Kosugi was named the chief of staff of the Taiwan Army.
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25 Apr 1930
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history
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Hikawa Maru was commissioned into service.
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25 Apr 1930
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history
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Tatsuta Maru departed Yokohama, Japan on her maiden voyage.
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11 May 1930
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history
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Josias was promoted to the rank of SS-Standartenführer.
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13 May 1930
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history
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Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru commenced her maiden voyage from Kobe for Seattle.
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19 May 1930
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history
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Oswald Mosley stepped down as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
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24 May 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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Pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a Congregational missionary, wrote in a letter: 'As one makes new discoveries about his friends by being with them, so one discovers the "individuality" of God if one entertains him continuously.'
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03 Jun 1930
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history
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General Jotaro Watanabe was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army.
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11 Jun 1930
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history
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The keel of cruiser Bolzano was laid down by Ansaldo Sestri Ponente at Genoa, Italy.
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11 Jun 1930
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history
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Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was named the commanding officer of Kure Naval District, Japan.
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17 Jun 1930
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history
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Houston was commissioned into service.
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18 Jun 1930
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history
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Nobutake Kondo was attached to the Navy General Staff.
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01 Jul 1930
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history
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Nautilus was commissioned into service.
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05 Jul 1930
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history
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He Yingqin stepped down as a member of the finance committee.
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16 Jul 1930
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history
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Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru departed Hong Kong for Seattle, her second round trip across the Pacific.
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26 Jul 1930
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history
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Douglas Bader was made a pilot officer of No. 23 Squadron RAF based at Kenley, England, United Kingdom.
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01 Aug 1930
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history
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Yoshijiro Umezu was promoted to the rank of major general.
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07 Aug 1930
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history
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HMS Hermes departed Hong Kong.
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11 Aug 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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In Toledo, Ohio, three Lutheran synods merged to form the American Lutheran Church. (In 1960 the ALC merged with two other branches of Evangelical Lutheranism, and in 1988 joined with a third Lutheran group to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ELCA.)
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18 Aug 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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English apologist C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'One creeps home, tired and bruised, into a state of mind that is really restful, when all ambitions have been given up. Then one can really for the first time say, "Thy Kingdom come."
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21 Aug 1930
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history
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WW2
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Princess Margaret (later Countess of Snowdon) was born at Glamis Castle, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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21 Aug 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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Pioneer linguistic educator Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: 'If this entire universe has a desperate need of love to incarnate itself, then "important duties" which keep us from helping little people are not duties but sins.'
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01 Sep 1930
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history
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The keel of cruiser Astoria was laid down.
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07 Sep 1930
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history
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Prince Baudouin (later King Baudouin I) of Belgium was born at Stuyvenberg on the outskirts of Brussels, Belgium.
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14 Sep 1930
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history
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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party received 6,371,000 votes in a national election, representing about 18% of the total votes, and gained 107 seats in the Reichstag. The party was now the second largest in the country.
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18 Sep 1930
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history
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Zhang Xueliang pledged military support for the Nationalists during the Central Plains War. As he committed over 40% of his forces, it would weaken the overall defense of northeastern China, thus giving the Japanese an opportunity to seize control.
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18 Sep 1930
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history
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RELIGIOUS
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Death of New England music evangelist Carrie E. Rounsefell, 69. It was Rounsefell who composed the hymn tune MANCHESTER, to which we sing today, "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go."
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19 Sep 1930
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history
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Douglas MacArthur departed from the Philippine Islands.
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23 Sep 1930
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history
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The first production example of GL-810 HY floatplanes took flight at Les Mureaux, France.
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23 Sep 1930
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history
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HMS Hermes arrived at Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom.
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25 Sep 1930
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history
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Song Ziwen was named the acting chief of the Executive Yuan.
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29 Sep 1930
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history
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HMS Hermes departed Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom for Sheerness in Kent, England, United Kingdom.
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30 Sep 1930
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history
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Dorsetshire was commissioned into service.
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02 Oct 1930
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history
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Captain E. J. G. MacKinnon was named the commanding officer of HMS Hermes, replacing Captain J. D. Campbell.
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05 Oct 1930
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history
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The British airship R101 crashed in France, killing 38 people. The crash of R101 effectively ended British use of rigid airships.
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09 Oct 1930
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history
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Dupleix was launched at Brest, France.
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15 Oct 1930
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history
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Cruiser Köln completed trials and training in the Baltic Sea and North sea.
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15 Oct 1930
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history
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Joseph Jules Brévié was named the Governor-General of French West Africa.
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28 Oct 1930
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history
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Cruiser Köln began to perform gunnery drills in the North Atlantic.
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01 Nov 1930
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history
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Arthur Greiser joined the Nazi Party.
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01 Nov 1930
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history
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Maximilian von Weichs was promoted to the rank of Oberst.
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02 Nov 1930
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history
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King Tafari was made Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia.
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03 Nov 1930
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history
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The Do X aircraft departed Friedrichshafen, Germany under the command of Friedrich Christiansen for the ultimate destination of New York, United States.
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04 Nov 1930
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history
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Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected the governor of the state of New York, United States.
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05 Nov 1930
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history
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The origins of naval radar in the US could be traced to a report from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) that two civilian scientists, L. C. Young and L. A. Hyland, had detected an aircraft in flight, this occurred while they were experimenting with the directional S of radio beams, which spotted an aircraft passing overhead. The NRL was later to inaugurate a project for the "detection of enemy vessels and aircraft by radio".
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10 Nov 1930
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history
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Amagiri was commissioned into service.
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12 Nov 1930
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history
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HMS Hermes departed Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom.
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15 Nov 1930
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history
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He Yingqin stepped down as a member of the military logistics committee.
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15 Nov 1930
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history
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Rear Admiral Kentaro Kojima was named the chief of staff of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea.
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15 Nov 1930
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history
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Clarence Tinker was named the commanding officer of the newly formed 20th Pursuit Group based at Mather Airfield, Sacramento, California, United States.
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18 Nov 1930
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history
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Song Ziwen stepped down as the acting chief of the Executive Yuan.
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21 Nov 1930
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history
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WW2
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Douglas MacArthur became the Chief of Staff of the US Army at the rank of general.
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22 Nov 1930
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history
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Lieutenant General Senjuro Hayashi was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea, relieving Jiro Minami.
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29 Nov 1930
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history
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WW2
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The Do X aircraft's flight from Germany to the United States was canceled in Lisbon, Portugal due to an accidental fire that damaged the port wing.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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Koichi Shiozawa stepped down as the chief of staff of the Japanese 1st Fleet.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the 11th Destroyer Division.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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Naka received a new commanding officer.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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Captain Kensuke Madareme was named the commanding officer of Tenryu.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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Settsu received a new commanding officer.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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Captain Noboru Hirata was named the commanding officer of Nachi.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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Vice Admiral Shusei Yuchi was named the commanding officer of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan.
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01 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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The keel of RMS Queen Mary was laid down by the John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom.
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02 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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HMS Valiant was recommissioned into service after refitting.
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04 Dec 1930
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history
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Chiang Kaishek was made the Premier of the Republic of China.
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12 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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USS R-5 was ordered to sail for the east coast of the United States.
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22 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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The Tupolev TB-3 four-engine heavy bomber made its maiden flight. Continually modified, over 500 of these big bombers were still in service at the time of the 1941 German invasion, and some carried out night-bombing attacks against the invaders. A paratroop conversion could carry up to 35 paratroopers accommodated in the fuselage and wings.
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22 Dec 1930
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history
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Kenkichi Ueda was made the commanding officer of the Japanese 9th Division in China.
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22 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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General Tomou Kodama was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea.
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29 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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Captain William Rea Furlong was named the commanding officer of USS Marblehead, replacing Captain Ralph A. Koch.
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31 Dec 1930
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history
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WW2
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Mineichi Koga was named the commanding officer of cruiser Aoba.
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