1930 in The United Kingdom - Events

Events

  • 1 February - The Times publishes its first crossword.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 5 May - An explosion on the eleventh floor of Bibby's oil cake mill in Liverpool leaves five dead and almost one hundred injured.
  • 24 May - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on 5 May for the 11,000 mile flight).
  • 28 May - The BBC forms it own permanent symphony orchestra under the directorship of Adrian Bolt
  • 14 July - Transmission by the BBC of the first experimental television play, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth.
  • 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.
  • 29 August - Remaining inhabitants of the island of St Kilda, Scotland, voluntarily evacuated to the mainland.
  • 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.
  • 1 October - 14 miners are killed in an explosion in a coal pit near Cannock, Staffordshire.
  • 5 October - British airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
  • 20 October - British White Paper demands restrictions on Jewish immigration into Palestine.
  • 12 November - Round Table Conference on the future status of India opens in London.
  • 25 November - Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary, achieves the first recorded cure (of an eye infection) using penicillin.
  • December - Youth Hostels Association opens its first hostel, at Pennant Hall near Llanrwst in North Wales.
  • 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 to actually be present when the offence is carried out.
  • 24 December - In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.

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