April 1930

• The new German chancellor Heinrich Brüning openly threatened the Reichstag with dissolution if it failed to carry out his policies. "The cabinet has been formed for the purpose of solving problems of vital importance to the country in the shortest possible time", he told the parliament. "This is our last effort to solve these problems with the present Reichstag."{{cite news |last=Schultz |first=Sigrid |author-link=Sigrid Schultz |date=April 2, 1930 |title=New Chancellor Dares Reichstag to Oppose Him | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=9 }}
• The film The Blue Angel starring Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich premiered at Ufa-Palast in Berlin.{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=1.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=1 |title=Tageseinträge für 1. April 1930 |website=chroniknet |access-date=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}
• Born: Grace Lee Whitney, actress and entertainer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 2015){{cite book|author1=Hal Schuster|author2=Wendy Rathbone|title=Trek: The Unauthorized A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKiSLPg8bjsC|year=1995|publisher=HarperPrism|isbn=978-0-06-105435-8|page=540}}
• Died:
• Cosima Wagner, 92, daughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, wife of German composer Richard Wagner and co-founder of the Bayreuth Festival{{cite book|author=Richard Wagner|title=The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBs6AQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Vienna House|isbn=978-0-8443-0104-4|page=283}}
• An Chang-nam, 29, first Korean aviator, when his plane crashed in bad weather{{cite news|url=http://www.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=302126 |publisher=OhmyNews |title=그들은 왜 하늘을 지배하려 했는가 (Why did they want to rule the sky?) |last=Jeong |first=Hye-ju |date=2006-01-01 |access-date=2007-05-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516063315/http://www.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=302126 |archive-date=2011-05-16 }}

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• Ras Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, more popularly known as Haile Selassie, became the new Emperor of Ethiopia upon the death of Empress Zewditu.{{cite book|author=Rose Parfitt|title=The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOeADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA228|date=17 January 2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-51519-8|pages=228}} He would reign for 44 years before being deposed in a military coup in 1974.
• Almost 100 passengers and crew on the Japanese ferry ship Wakato Maru died when the vessel capsized in a gale off Kyushu. The small ferry was overcrowded beyond its normal capacity.{{cite news |date=April 3, 1930 |title=100 Die in Panic as Storm Sinks Japanese Ferry | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=5 }}

• The second Academy Awards were held, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Unlike in the inaugural year, the winners were not announced in advance. For the first time, the ceremony broadcast live on the radio, hosted by Los Angeles station KNX. The Broadway Melody won the award for Outstanding Picture.{{cite web |url=http://www.moviemoviesite.com/Awards/us_academy_awards/02nd.htm |title=2nd Academy Awards Winners |website=Movie Movie |access-date=April 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204192016/http://www.moviemoviesite.com/Awards/us_academy_awards/02nd.htm |archive-date=February 4, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
• The Montreal Canadiens hockey team won their third Stanley Cup, defeating the Boston Bruins 4–3 to win the Finals two games to none.
• Born:
• Helmut Kohl, the last Chancellor of West Germany (from 1982 to 1990) and the first Chancellor of Germany after its 1990 unification, serving until 1998; in Ludwigshafen (d. 2017){{cite book|author1=Günter Müchler|author2=Klaus Hofmann|title=Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of German Unity: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wL2xAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Press and Information Office of the Federal Government|page=14}}
• Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator for Florida from 1971 to 1989, then Governor of Florida from 1991 until his death; in Lakeland, Florida (d. 1998);{{cite book|author=George Douth|title=Leaders in Profile: The United States Senate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5NFLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA79|year=1972|publisher=Speer & Douth, Incorporated|pages=79}}
• Died: Dame Emma Albani, 82, Canadian operatic soprano (b. 1847){{cite book|author=Michelle Labrèche-Larouche|title=Emma Albani: Victorian Diva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zzsPX_vICCEC&pg=PA166|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-77070-708-5|pages=166}}

• Former U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg told a luncheon audience in Chicago that American isolationism was no longer viable. "A great nation like ours, with ten billions a year of foreign commerce, has as much to gain by the establishment of the World Court as any country in the world", he said.{{cite news |date=April 5, 1930 |title=Kellogg Defends World Court in Chicago Speech | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=3 }}
• The American Interplanetary Society was founded to conduct rocket experiments. In 1934 the organization changed its name to the American Rocket Society.

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• Died: Victoria of Baden, 67, Queen Consort of Sweden since 1907, as the wife of King Gustaf V{{cite book|author=S. Steinberg|title=The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqTPDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1360|date=29 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-27079-4|pages=1360}}

• In Belgium, a new law made Dutch the only official language of the University of Ghent, against the wishes of the French speaking minority in Flanders, the predominantly Flemish-speaking section of northern Belgium.Lawers, Gracienne. "The Use of Language in Education in Belgium." Language Rights Revisited – The Challenge of Global Migration and Communication. Ed. Dagmar Richter, Ingo Richter, Reetta Toivanen, Iryna Ulasiuk. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2012. p. 260. {{ISBN|978-3-8305-2809-8}}{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=5.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=5 |title=Tageseinträge für 5. April 1930 |website=chroniknet |access-date=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}

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• Mahatma Gandhi ended the Salt March, part of the Civil Disobedience Movement at Dandi, Navsari. Here Gandhi broke the law by picking up a few grains of salt from the beach.{{cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-great-dandi-march-eighty-years-after/article388858.ece |title=The Great Dandi March — eighty years after |last=Gandhi |first=Gopalkrishna |date=April 6, 2010 |website=The Hindu |access-date=April 18, 2015 }}{{cite book |last=Wolfenstein |first=E. Victor |date=1971 |title=Revolutionary Personality: Lenin, Trotsky, Gandhi |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=219 |isbn=978-1-4008-7187-2 }}

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• The Twinkie, a popular snack consisting of a (then banana) cream-filled sponge cake, was created at the Continental Baking Company in the Chicago suburb of River Forest, Illinois.{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-xpm-2012-11-16-chi-twinkies-chicago-20121116-story.html|title=Twinkies: Their history in Chicago and the U.S.|date=November 16, 2012|website=Chicago Tribune|access-date=1 December 2020}}
• René Dreyfus won the second Monaco Grand Prix.{{cite book|author=Alexander Hopkins McDannald|title=Yearbook of the Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trkcAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Americana Corporation|page=406}}
• The Order of the Red Star medal was established in the Soviet Union.{{cite book|title=USSR Information Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8kPTAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA9|year=1947|publisher=The Embassy|pages=9}}

• The government of the Soviet Union decided to establish a ministry of physical culture.{{cite news |date=April 7, 1930 |title=Soviet Seeks Supermen, Forms Physical Culture Ministry | work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |page=3 }}
• Born: Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor, in Berlin (d. 2016){{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/oct/29/andrew-sachs-profile|title=Andrew Sachs: profile|last=Williams|first=Rachel|date=29 October 2008|work=The Guardian|access-date=30 October 2008|location=London| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081101103047/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/29/andrew-sachs-profile| archive-date= 1 November 2008 | url-status= live}}
• Died: William P. G. Harding, 65, American banker{{cite news |title=W.P.G. Harding Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/04/08/archives/governor-harding.html|newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 8, 1930 |access-date=January 7, 2011 }}

• The war film Journey's End premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City.{{cite book |last=Holston |first=Kim R. |date=2013 |title=Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |page=69 |isbn=978-0-7864-6062-5 }}
• Born: Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, in Paris, France (d. 2010){{cite book|author=William G. Valko|title=The Illustrated Who's who in Reigning Royalty: A History of Contemporary Monarchical Systems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfBBAAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Community Press|page=142}}

• The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company sold Brunswick Records to Warner Bros.{{cite book |last=Laird |first=Ross |date=2001 |title=Brunswick Records: New York sessions, 1916–1926 |location=Westport, Connecticut |publisher=Greenwood Press |page=11 |isbn=978-0-313-31866-5 }}
• Died: Rose Caron, 72, French operatic soprano{{cite book|author=Richard T. Soper|title=Belgian Opera Houses and Singers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvoXAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Reprint Company|isbn=978-0-87152-516-1|page=423}}

• Police raided the Indian National Congress headquarters in Bombay and made two arrests.{{cite news |date=April 11, 1930 |title=Gandhi Wilts Under Strain of India Salt War | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=25 }}
• Born: Spede Pasanen, Finnish filmmaker, inventor and television personality, in Kuopio (d. 2001){{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9LtkAAAAMAAJ|date=16 April 2002|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|isbn=978-0-7864-1278-5|page=230}}

• The Tokyo Stock Exchange was suspended early for the day due to a selling panic.{{cite news |date=April 12, 1930 |title=Stock Exchange in Tokio Reopens; Panic Averted | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=5 }}
• Rioting was reported from Taranto, Italy due to economic conditions.{{cite news |date=April 12, 1930 |title=Italian Troops Fire on Rioters; Take 280 to Jail | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=5 }}
• American scientists predicted that man would land on the Moon by 2050.{{cite book |last=Mercer |first=Derrik |date=1989 |title=Chronicle of the 20th Century |location=London |publisher=Chronicle Communications Ltd. |page=391 |isbn=978-0-582-03919-3 }}

• Germany and Austria signed a trade agreement.{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=12.4.1930&year=1930&month=4&day=12 |title=Tageseinträge für 12. April 1930 |website=chroniknet |access-date=April 18, 2015 |language=de}}
• The University of Cambridge won the 82nd Boat Race. Cambridge now had an all-time record of 41–40 against Oxford, leading for the first time since 1863.
• Born: John Landy, Australian athlete and politician (d. 2022){{cite book|author=Bruce Elder|title=The A to Z of who is who in Australia's History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWBmAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Child & Associates Publishing Pty Limited|page=306}}

• Inspired by Gandhi's Salt March, 500,000 people in British India held an orderly demonstration in Bombay, defying the colonial law against private gathering of salt and throwing a monstrous effigy, representing the salt tax, into the Indian Ocean.{{cite news |date=April 14, 1930 |title=500,000 Hurl 'Salt Tax' into Sea at Bombay | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=3 }}

• Indian independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested and charged with violating the salt law.{{cite web |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Mahatma-Gandhi-describes-Nehrus-arrest-in-1930-as-rest/articleshow/45140212.cms |title=Mahatma Gandhi describes Nehru's arrest in 1930 as 'rest' |last=Khanal |first=Vinod |date=November 13, 2014 |website=The Times of India |access-date=April 18, 2015 }}
• On budget day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden presented tax increases on income, death duties and beer.{{cite news |last=Steele |first=John |date=April 15, 1930 |title=22 1/2% of British Incomes Taken by New Tax Law | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=10 }}
• The Reichstag approved Chancellor Brüning's series of economic bills which included farm relief and an increase in the tax on beer.{{cite news |last=Schultz |first=Sigrid |author-link=Sigrid Schultz |date=April 15, 1930 |title=Reichstag Puts Higher Tax on Beer by 9 Votes | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=12 }}

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• Died:
• Vladimir Mayakovsky, 36, Russian playwright, poet and actor, shot himself in the heart after a concerted campaign against him by the Soviet press.{{cite book|author=Martin Crowley|title=Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6f3V_LVlIioC&pg=PA207|year=2000|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-420-1432-6|pages=207}}
• John B. Sheridan, 60, Irish-born American sportswriter{{cite book|author=George Seldes|title=Witch Hunt: The Technique and Profits of Redbaiting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LNQUAAAAMAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Modern age books|page=88}}

• Riots broke out in Calcutta over the imprisonment of Nehru and the city's mayor.{{cite news |date=April 16, 1930 |title=One Slain, Many Hurt in India's Salt Tax Riots | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=1 }}
• Born: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland from 1980 to 1996 and the first woman to be voted as any nation's president in a democratic election; in Reykjavík{{cite book|author=Bruce Olav Solheim|title=On Top of the World: Women's Political Leadership in Scandinavia and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rifHpr-tGFoC&pg=PA78|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31000-3|pages=78}}

• Britain and the Soviet Union signed a new trade pact granting each other most favoured nation status.{{cite news |date=April 17, 1930 |title=British, Russian Envoys Sign New Commerce Pact | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=3 }}

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• First Lady Lou Henry Hoover suffered a back injury in a fall at the White House.{{cite news |date=April 17, 1930 |title=Mrs. Hoover Injures her Back Slightly in Fall at White House |journal=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=1 }} The injury was serious enough to require her to use a wheelchair during her recovery.{{cite journal |date=May 14, 1930 |title=Injuries Still Curb Activities of Mrs. Hoover | journal=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=1 }}
• Wilhelm Frick of the Nazi Party, the Interior Minister of the German state of Thuringia, introduced nationalistic new prayers to be recited in elementary schools. Liberals objected to the propagandistic content of the prayers and challenged their constitutionality in court.{{cite book |last=Lamberti |first=Marjorie |date=2004 |title=The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany |publisher=Bergahn Books |page=206 |isbn=978-1-57181-299-5 }} One line read, "I believe that thou wilt punish the betrayal of Germany and bless the actions of those who seek to free the Fatherland."{{cite news |date=July 12, 1930 |title=German Schools Forbidden to Use 'Kaiser' Prayer | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=12 }}
• Born: Herbie Mann, jazz flautist, in Pecos, New Mexico (d. 2003){{cite book|author=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Kollington - Morphine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cgwKAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=MUZE|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|page=479}}

• Twenty-seven Indian independence demonstrators were sentenced for breaking the salt laws, including Mahatma Gandhi's son Devdas, who received three months imprisonment. Mahatma Gandhi urged his followers to continue nonviolent forms of protest, saying that riots like the one in Calcutta "will harm our struggle."{{cite news |date=April 18, 1930 |title=Britain Jails 27 Leaders of Salt Tax War in India | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=23 }}
• The Paraguayan soccer football club Club Sportivo San Lorenzo was founded.

• The BBC Radio news bulletin from London stated: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news." Piano music followed for roughly 15 minutes.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm |title=1930 – Technological changes in the newsroom |work=BBC News |access-date=March 8, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://archives.cjr.org/the_kicker/and_thats_the_way_it_was_april_11.php |title=And that's the way it was: April 18, 1930 |work=Columbia Journalism Review |date=April 18, 2013 |access-date=March 8, 2019}}{{cite AV media |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010szlg |title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - 90 by 90 The Full Set, 1930: No News Today |work=BBC Radio 4 |date=November 12, 2012 |access-date=March 8, 2019 |medium=audio}}
• A typhoon swept through Leyte in the Philippines, causing extensive damage.{{cite news |date=April 21, 1930 |title=Fear Many Dead After Typhoon Hits Philippines |newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=1}}
• The Chittagong armoury raid occurred when Indian revolutionaries led by Surya Sen raided an armoury in the Bengal province of British India, seizing it and setting it on fire. Martial law was proclaimed and troops were called out to quell the uprising.{{cite book |last1=Overstreet |first1=Gene D. |last2=Windmiller |first2=Marshall |date=1959 |title=Communism in India |publisher=University of California Press |page=138}}{{cite book |last=Stevenson |first=Richard |date=2005 |title=Bengal Tiger and British Lion: An Account of the Bengal Famine of 1943 |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |publisher=iUniverse |page=77 |isbn=978-0-595-36209-7}}
• A fire killed 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services. Candles being used in the service brushed against drapery and set it ablaze.{{cite news |date=April 19, 1930 |title=144 Die; Fire and Panic End Easter Mass |newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=1}}

• Three people were killed and 36 injured in fighting between police and protestors in Warsaw, Poland when 2,000 unemployed textile workers surrounded city hall and threw stones at the building while demanding assistance.{{cite news |date=April 20, 1930 |title=Polish Jobless Battle Police; 3 Slain, 36 Hurt |newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=20}}

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• The very first Warner Bros. cartoon short, Sinkin' in the Bathtub, was released. It was the first in the Looney Tunes series and introduced the character of Bosko.
• Clarence DeMar won his seventh Boston Marathon.{{cite web |url=http://www.bostonmarathonmediaguide.com/5-racesynopsis.php |title=Boston Marathon Yearly Synopses |website=Boston Marathon Media Guide |access-date=April 18, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206113458/http://www.bostonmarathonmediaguide.com/5-racesynopsis.php |archive-date=February 6, 2015}}
• The drama film The Divorcee starring Norma Shearer was released.{{cite book |last=Reid |first=John Howard |date=2008 |title=Silent Films & Early Talkies on DVD: A Classic Movie Fan's Guide |publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=978-1-4357-1073-3}}
• Born: Dick Sargent, American television actor known primarily as the replacement of Dick York on the comedy Bewitched; in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (d. 1994){{cite book |first=Claude |last=Summers |title=The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwFuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA249 |date=24 April 2012 |publisher=Cleis Press |isbn=978-1-57344-882-6 |page=249}}

• Charles Lindbergh, accompanied by his wife Anne, flew a Lockheed Model 8 Sirius from Los Angeles to New York in 14 hours, 45 minutes and 32 seconds, a new transcontinental record.{{cite news |date=April 21, 1930 |title=Lindy Spans U.S. in 15 Hours | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=1 }}
• Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, and her personal pilot C. D. Barnard completed a record-breaking flight of 9,000 miles in a Fokker F.VII, made from Lympne Airport in the UK to Cape Town, South Africa, in 100 flying hours over 10 days.Jones, D. (1971) The Time Shrinkers: the Development of Civil Aviation between Britain and Africa. Rendel. pp. 142–152.

• Construction of the Turkestan–Siberia Railway was completed.{{cite book |first=Joseph |last=Stalin |author-link=Joseph Stalin |title=Works: April 1929-June 1930 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpgOAQAAIAAJ |year=1955 |publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House |via=Google Books}} The Railway opened a week later, on April 28.

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• In what is still the worst prison fire in U.S. history, 320 inmates were killed at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus.{{cite web |url=http://www.genealogybug.net/ohio_alhn/crime/ohio_pen_fire.html |title=A List of Victims of the Ohio Penitentiary Fire |access-date=April 18, 2015}}
• The war film All Quiet on the Western Front premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.{{cite book |last=Kelly |first=Andrew |date=1998 |title=Filming "All Quiet On the Western Front" |location=New York |publisher=I.B. Tauris & Co. |page=6 |isbn=978-1-86064-361-3}}
• In the U.S., the Presbyterian General Assembly publicized the findings of a commission appointed to investigate marriage and divorce in America. One section of the study blamed rising divorce rates on cultural tendencies such as jazz due to its "primeval jungle tom tom" which "inspires contortions of dance unfitting to incipient rheumatics", as well as stage plays and films in which adultery was "the fashionable theme".{{cite news |last=Evans |first=John |date=April 22, 1930 |title=Sex Paganism Imperils Home, Churchmen Say |newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=1}}
• Born: Silvana Mangano, Italian actress, in Rome (d. 1989){{cite news |title=Mort de Silvana Mangano La magicienne |newspaper=Le Monde |date=18 December 1989 |page=10}}
• Died: Robert Bridges, 85, English poet{{cite book |first=Lee Templin |last=Hamilton |title=Robert Bridges: An Annotated Bibliography, 1873-1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiOgjZY4dGMC&pg=PA132 |year=1991 |publisher=University of Delaware Press |isbn=978-0-87413-364-6 |page=132 |via=Google Books}}

• The London Naval Treaty was signed by representatives of the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, limiting the tonnage of warships until 1936. France and Italy were exempted from the section that set limitations on total tonnage, but it was hoped that they would sign on to the full treaty at a later date.{{cite news |last=Steele |first=John |date=April 23, 1930 |title=Navy Envoys Off for U.S. | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|pages=1, 8 }}
• Sixty-four British and Indian troops were killed in a battle to capture a group of revolutionaries who had participated in the Chittagong raid, while only 11 of the rebels died. The fight began after a group of 57 outlaws were surrounded at the Jalalabad mountain range by British Indian forces.{{cite book |last=Sen |first=S.N. |date=2006 |title=History: Modern India |location=Delhi |publisher=New Age Publishers |page=193 |isbn=978-81-224-1774-6 }}
• Died: Jeppe Aakjær, 63, Danish poet and novelist{{cite encyclopedia | editor-last = Hoiberg | editor-first = Dale H. | encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica | title = Aakjaer, Jeppe | edition = 15th | year = 2010 | publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. | volume = I: A-Ak - Bayes | location = Chicago, Illinois | isbn = 978-1-59339-837-8 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia2009ency }}

• The Chicago Crime Commission labeled 28 gangsters as "public enemies", popularizing the use of that term in the general lexicon. Chicago north side mob leader Al Capone was identified as "Public Enemy Number 1". Other names on the list included Terry Druggan, Jack McGurn, Bugs Moran, Joseph Saltis and Jack Zuta.{{cite news |date=April 24, 1930 |title=List 28 as "Public Enemies" | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|pages=1, 8 }}{{cite book |last1=Girardin |first1=G. Russell |last2=Helmer |first2=William J. |date=2005 |title=Dillinger: The Untold Story |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253216335/page/288 |location=Bloomington, Indiana |publisher=Indiana University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780253216335/page/288 288] |isbn=978-0-253-21633-5 |url-access=registration }}

• Edda Mussolini and Count Galeazzo Ciano were married at the Church of San Giuseppe in Rome, Italy.{{cite news |date=April 24, 1930 |title=Il Duce's Daughter is Bride of Count | work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |page=1 }}
• Born:
• Richard Donner, American film director, in New York City (d. 2021)
• José Sarney, 31st President of Brazil, in Pinheiro, Maranhão{{cite book|author=Alexander Hopkins McDannald|title=The Americana Annual: An Encyclopedia of Current Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbIcAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Americana corporation|page=131|isbn=9780717202171}}
• Died: Adele Ritchie, 55, American comic opera singer, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after fatally shooting set designer Doris Miller.{{cite news|title=Mrs. Guy Bates Post and Hostess Found Dead in Home. Believed Former Actress, Adele Ritchie, Killed Friend and Then Herself|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/04/25/archives/mrs-guy-bates-post-and-hostess-found-shot-dead-in-home-believed.html|quote=Mrs. Guy Bates Post, the former Adele Ritchie, a stage star of two decades ago, and Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, formerly of Chicago, were found shot dead in the fashionable bungalow of Mrs. Palmer here late ...|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 25, 1930|access-date=2013-12-22}}

• In the United States, Ralph Capone was found guilty on four counts of tax fraud.{{cite news |date=April 26, 1930 |title=Gangster Capone to Prison | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=1 }}
• Born: Paul Mazursky, U.S. film director, screenwriter and actor, in Brooklyn (d. 2014)Tugend, Tom [http://www.jewishjournal.com/obituaries/article/paul_mazursky_filmmaker_84 Jewish Journal: "Paul Mazursky, filmmaker, 84"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008151120/http://www.jewishjournal.com/obituaries/article/paul_mazursky_filmmaker_84 |date=2015-10-08 }} Jewish Journal (July 9, 2014)

• Vithalbhai Patel resigned as President of the Central Legislative Assembly of India in sympathy with the independence movement.{{cite news |last=Dailey |first=Charles |date=April 27, 1930 |title=India Asks League for Help | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=1 }}
• Arsenal defeated Huddersfield Town, 2 to 0, to win English soccer football's FA Cup, in a match at Wembley Stadium.{{cite book|author=Robert Galvin|title=The Football Hall of Fame: The Greatest Football Legends of All Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QCDpxbf5xrUC&pg=PA7|year=2008|publisher=Pavilion Books|isbn=978-1-906032-46-3|pages=7}}

• For the first time in history, an international radiotelephone call was made from a speeding train. Canadian National Railway President Sir Henry Worth Thornton phoned the U.S. commerce secretary Robert P. Lamont in Washington, then his Canadian counterpart James Malcolm, and finally made a call to the vice president of the company in London during the inauguration of a new train service from Montreal to Chicago.{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Stanley |date=April 28, 1930 |title=London Talks to Canadian Train by Phone | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=1 }}
• Nine spectators were killed and 20 injured at an air show in the U.S. at Fayetteville, Tennessee, after a plane crashed onto a railroad embankment and veered into the crowd. The pilot, Milton P. Covert, survived.{{cite news|title=Airplane Falls on Crowd, Seven Killed|work=The Frederick Post|agency=Associated Press|date=28 Apr 1930|url=https://www.gendisasters.com/tennessee/9225/fayetteville-tn-flying-circus-airplane-crash-apr-1930|access-date=12 July 2009}}{{cite news|title=Held for Deaths in Crash: Pilot of Plane Which Killed Nine at Fayetteville, Tenn., Arraigned|work=The New York Times|date=28 April 1930|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10715F6345A147A93C3A8178ED85F448385F9|access-date=20 September 2009}}

• The Turkestan–Siberia Railway opened, connecting the cities of Arys and Novosibirsk. Construction of the remainder of the line would continue nine more months until January. When finished, the four-year project had cost over 161 million rubles.{{cite news |date=April 29, 1930 |title=Russia Opens New Railway in Asian Wilds | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=8 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780822941668 |title=Stalin's Railroad: Turksib and the Building of Socialism |website=BiblioVault |access-date=April 18, 2015 }}
• The Independence, Kansas, baseball team of the Class C Western Association hosted the first regular season night game in organized baseball history. The visiting Muskogee Chiefs beat the Independence Producers under the lights by a score of 13–3 before a crowd of 1,000.{{cite web |url=http://research.sabr.org/journals/under-the-lights |title=Under the Lights |last=Eddleton |first=Oscar |website=Society for American Baseball Research |access-date=April 18, 2015 }}{{cite book |last=Prager |first=Joshua |date=2008 |title=The Echoing Green |url=https://archive.org/details/echoinggreen00josh|url-access=registration |publisher=Vintage Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/echoinggreen00josh/page/39 39] |isbn=978-0-307-38933-6 }}
• A solar eclipse occurred on this day, with the path of totality passing through the northwestern United States and across central and eastern Canada.{{cite web |url=https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=19300428 |title=Hybrid Solar Eclipse of 1930 April 28 |work=NASA |access-date=March 8, 2019}}
• Born: James Baker, U.S. Secretary of State, 1989 to 1992; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and White House Chief of Staff; in Houston, Texas.{{cite web |title=Biographies of the Secretaries of State: James Addison Baker III |url = https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/baker-james-addison |publisher=U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian |access-date=November 17, 2015 }}
• Died: Charles Grandmougin, 80, French poet and playwright{{cite book|author=Graham Johnson|title=Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fS8rDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA120|date=5 July 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-56611-7|pages=120–}}

• Film producer and executive David O. Selznick married socialite Irene Mayer (daughter of film producer Louis B. Mayer) in a simple ceremony at Mayer's house in Hollywood, United States.{{cite book |last=Eyman |first=Scott |date=2005 |title=Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer |url=https://archive.org/details/lionofhollywoodl00eyma|url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |page=[https://archive.org/details/lionofhollywoodl00eyma/page/162 162] |isbn=978-1-4391-0791-1 }}
• Born: Jean Rochefort, French actor; in Paris (d. 2017){{Cite web|url=https://parismatch.be/actualites/people/80155/jean-rochefort-la-mort-de-lelegant-du-cinema-francais|title=Jean Rochefort, la mort de l'élégant du cinéma français|date=2017-10-09|website=parismatch.be|first1=Yannick |last1=Vely |language=fr|access-date=2019-05-17}}

• Italy decreed that its naval construction program for the next year would consist of 29 new ships totalling 42,900 tons, an increase of 12,000 tons over the previous year.{{cite news |last=Darrah |first=David |date=May 1, 1930 |title=Italy Orders 29 Warahips; Naval Race On | work=Chicago Daily Tribune|page=2 }}
• The Dutch football club Ter Leede was founded.

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