- 1930 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1930 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Ramsay MacDonald , LabourEvents
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1 February - "The Times " publishes its firstcrossword .
*22 April - The United Kingdom,Japan and theUnited States sign theLondon Naval Treaty regulatingsubmarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
*24 May -Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly solo fromEngland toAustralia (she left on5 May for the 11,000 mile flight).cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*14 July - Transmission by theBBC of the first experimental television play, "The Man With the Flower in His Mouth ".
*16 August - the first British Empire Games are held inHamilton, Ontario ,Canada .
*24 September - First performance ofNoel Coward 's play "Private Lives " at the Phoenix Theatre,London featuring Coward,Gertrude Lawrence andLaurence Olivier in the cast.
*5 October - BritishAirship R101 crashed inFrance en-route toIndia on its maiden voyage.
*20 October - British White Paper demands restrictions onJew ish immigration into Palestine.
*12 November - Round Table Conference on the future status ofIndia opens in London.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 372-373|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*24 December - InLondon ,Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.Publications
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Agatha Christie 's firstMiss Marple novel, "The Murder at the Vicarage ".
*T. S. Eliot 's poem "Ash Wednesday".
*Arthur Ransome 's children's novel "Swallows and Amazons ".
*W. C. Sellar andR. J. Yeatman 's book "1066 and All That ".
*Evelyn Waugh 's novel "Vile Bodies ".Births
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26 January -John Straffen , serial killer
*13 February -Ronald Stretton , track cyclist
*7 March -Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon , photographer and filmmaker
*8 April -Dorothy Tutin , actress (died 2001)
*17 April -Chris Barber , jazz trombonist
*9 May -Joan Sims , actress (died 2001)
*27 July -Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby , co-founder of the Social Democratic Party
*8 August -Barry Unsworth , novelist
*13 August -Bernard Manning , comedian (died 2007)
*17 August -Ted Hughes , poet (died 1998)
*21 August -Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (died 2002)
*25 August -Sean Connery , actor
*28 August -Windsor Davies , actor
*10 October -Harold Pinter , playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
*28 October -Bernie Ecclestone , auto racing tycoon
*14 November -Shirley Crabtree , professional wrestler (died 1997)
*15 November -J. G. Ballard , writer
*22 November - Peter Hall, theatre director
*1 December -Kenneth Box , track and field sprinter
*4 December -Ronnie Corbett , comedian
*27 December -Wilfrid Sheed , English-born American writerDeaths
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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 Thomas Davidson ,Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1848)
*7 July -Arthur Conan Doyle , author (born 1859)
*29 August -William Archibald Spooner , scholar and Anglican priest (born 1844)
*27 November -Johnny Tyldesley , cricketer (born 1873)References
ee also
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