1930 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1930 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, Labour

Events

* 1 February - "The Times" publishes its first crossword.
* 22 April - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
* 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).cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 14 July - Transmission by the BBC of the first experimental television play, "The Man With the Flower in His Mouth".
* 16 August - the first British Empire Games are held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
* 24 September - First performance of Noel Coward's play "Private Lives" at the Phoenix Theatre, London featuring Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier in the cast.
* 5 October - British Airship R101 crashed 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.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 - In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.

Publications

* Agatha Christie's first Miss 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 and R. J. Yeatman's book "1066 and All That".
* Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies".

Births

* 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 writer

Deaths

* 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

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