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NOTEWORTHY EVENTS - 1930

* Italicized events actually happened. If the event is partially italicized, the parts in normal type have been changed for this reality. The changes could be extremely minor or quite significant.

• January 1 - Despite assistance from the National Economic Security Administration, unemployment has surged in the past 3 months. It has nearly doubled in that time to 17%, the worst unemployment rate since the height of the Haemorrhagic Flu.
• January 22 - Dr. Heinrich Brüning of the Centre Party is appointed German Reichskanzler
• February 18 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
• February 18 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane. This was done for scientists to observe midair effects on animals, among other reasons. Not satisfied with these feats, the people who milked her put the milk into paper cartons and parachuted them to fans waiting below.
  
  Elm Farm Ollie poses for the camera.
  
  
• March 6 - The first frozen foods by Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
• Spring - The Great Depression: Unemployment reaches 25% in Germany. Much of the blame is placed incorrectly on the ruling Centre Party, with negative public sentiment contributing to a massive rise in the popularity of the radical German Worker's Party.
• April 6 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
• April 21 - Fire in Ohio State Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320
• April 28 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
• Spring - Chicago and New York police detectives establish a connection between the weapons used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the murder of mobster Frankie Yale, implicating Capone's involvement in Yale's death.
• May - The National Economic Advisory Council submits it recommendation to President Smith that the United States abandon the gold standard. Smith decides not to heed their advice.
• May 6 - The Great Salmas Earthquake: Measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale, an earthquake strikes the city of Salmas, Persia, killing 4,000 people.
• June 17 - U.S. President Al Smith signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
• June 26 - Vienna Assault: The Magyar Dominion army advances into Austria, razing houses and killing random civilians. They eventually surround the city of Vienna, where Emperor Maximilian and his family are holed up.
• July 7 - Construction on the Patrick J. Kennedy Dam begins.
• July 13 - The first Football World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.
• Summer - The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930: The United Kingdom and the British Mandate-controlled administration of Iraq sign this historically controversial treaty. It was based upon an earlier treaty signed in 1922, but now took into account Iraq's increased importance to British interests given new oil finds made in 1927. The United Kingdom occupies Iraq under a mandate from the League of Nations. The main purpose of the treaty is to give the British a variety of exclusive commercial and military rights within the country after independence in exchange for which Iraq will get nothing. Critics point out that the treaty was not negotiated, but rather dictated to the British-controlled government so as to avoid any possibility of real negotiations with any post-independence government. The treaty gives the British almost unlimited rights to base military forces in Iraq. It further provides for the unconditional and unlimited right of the British to move troops into or through Iraq. While the treaty is approved, it may never come into effect because of unrest and large demonstrations in Iraq against it. Critics consider the treaty a sham document which, like every other treaty during the mandatory period, is nothing more than a legal cover for the British to permanently limit the independence of Iraq and to give themselves a legal right to intervene in the internal affairs of Iraq as they please. The treaties always revolved around protecting the illegal appropriation of the Iraqi oil resources by British Interests at the start of the mandate period and giving the British the right of military intervention in the country.
  
  A typical Muslim neighborhood in Baghdad, circa 1930
  
  
• July 30 - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 in the first soccer World Cup Final
• August 6 - Magyar forces storm the Schönbrunn Palace after the remaining Austrian forces break and run. Austrian Emperor Maximilian and his family are left without any defense. They are discovered deceased in their beds. It is later surmised that they all committed suicide by ingesting poison, rather than face the wrath of the Magyar soldiers. Their bodies are stripped naked and displayed outside the palace walls, impaled on 10 foot stakes.
  
  The Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria
  
  
• August 10 - Now that the Magyar-Austrian War is over, Austria is annexed by the Magyar Dominion, doubling their territory and firmly entrenching them as the main military force on the European continent.
• August 12 - Turkish troops move into Persia to fight Kurdish insurgents.
• September 10 - Reichskanzler Heinrich Brüning, his wife, and three sons die in a suspicious fire on their Berlin estate.
• September 14 - The German Worker's Party win 244 seats in the German Parliament - 40.8% of all the votes makes them the largest party, giving them a plurality by an extremely small margin.
• September 16 - Gottfried Feder, head of the German Worker's Party, appointed German Reichskanzler, replacing the late Heinrich Brüning
  
  Gottfried Feder & the late Heinrich Brüning
  
  
• November 2 - Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia
• November 13 - Treaty of Mannheim: Reichskanzler Gottfried Feder of Germany and President Ferenc Szálasi of the Magyar Dominion sign a non-aggression treaty.
• December 2 - Great Depression: U.S. President Al Smith goes before Congress and asks for $150 million to supplement the beleaguered National Economic Security Administration, helping generate jobs and stimulate the economy. His request is denied by the bipartisan Congress over concerns for national financial security.