April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of marriage May 1, 1930
The temperature on May 1, 1930 was between 3.0 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
April 28 » The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
August 7 » The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
September 8 » 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
October 27 » Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
December 7 » W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
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