March 2 » United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
Day of marriage August 14, 1930
The temperature on August 14, 1930 was between 11.0 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 20.3 mm of rain during 9.1 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
April 18 » The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
July 7 » Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
September 8 » 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
October 3 » The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.
November 3 » Getúlio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
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