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1930 January 21 - April 1 The London Naval Conference of 1930 extends the Washington agreement to cruisers and destroyers, and regulates submarine warfare. Britain, Japan, and the United States also accept a treaty limiting the size of battleships. (The Japanese will abrogate these treaties in 1934.)

1930 January 28 Primo de Rivera, the strong man of Spain, resigns.

1930 February 6 Mussolini signs a treaty of friendship with Austria.

1930 February 23 Horst Wessel, Professor Horbiger's right-hand man, is killed by Communists and is soon transformed into yet another Nazi martyr. Nazi opponents claim he was nothing more than a "pimp" and a scoundrel. (Pauwels)

1930 May 18 Local Storm troopers (SA) attend religious services at the Cathedral of Regensburg, bringing with them their flags and banners.

1930 June 10 The Simon report on India becomes a landmark on India's road to independence, but is condemned by Gandhi as tardy and inadequate.

1930 June 17 President Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley tariff act despite the protests of one thousand American economists that it will produce a dangerous experiment in economic nationalism.

1930 August 10 Rudolf Hess circles his M-23 Messerschmitt (painted with a black swastika) over a leftist meeting in Munich, drowning out the speakers. (Missing Years)

1930 August 23 Rudolf Gorsleben dies and Werner von Bulow takes over the Edda Society's periodical, soon renaming it Hagal All All Hagal, and later simply Hagal. (Roots)

1930 September 14 The Nazis become Germany's second largest party.107 National Socialist deputies are elected to the Reichstag (20% of the vote). Social Democrats remain the largest party in the Reichstag.

1930 November 6 - December 9 The Preparatory Commission on disarmament holds its final meetings.

1930 November 9 The Gauleiter (regional party leader) of the state of Hesse seeks permission to lay wreaths on this date at the graves of German soldiers killed in WWI and buried in Catholic cemeteries. His request is denied by the Church on the ground that political parties whose ultimate outlook on life conflicts with Church doctrine can not be allowed to hold such ceremonies on Catholic soil. (Lewy)

1930 November Bishop Schreiber of Berlin indicates that Catholics are not forbidden to become members of the Nazi party.

1930 December Theodor Eicke joins the SS (member No. 2921).

1930 December Dr. Hjalmar Schacht meets Hermann Goering at a dinner party, takes a liking to him, and agrees to meet with Hitler in January. (Children)

1930 December 12 Allied troops evacuate the Saar region of Germany.

1930 December 14 A Catholic priest, Dr. Philipp Haeuser, delivers the principal address at the Christmas celebration of the Nazi party of Augsburg.

1930 December 31 Germania, the daily newspaper of the Catholic Center Party, features an article saying of the Nazis: "Here we are no longer dealing with political questions but with a religious delusion which has to be fought with all possible vigor." (Lewy)

1930 The National Socialist Minister of the Interior of the government of the Land of Thuringia invites "race-investigator" H. F.K. Günther to a chair of social anthropology at the University of Jena, against the wishes of the faculty. Professor Lenz comments: "We are happy about the appointment itself, despite our reservations about the way in which it was made." (Science)

1930 Ernst Roehm returns to Germany from Bolivia after a five year absence and begins reorganizing the SA.

1930 Alfred Rosenberg publishes The Myth of the Twentieth Century, calling for the doing away with of the "Jewish" Old Testament, purging the New Testament of its "obviously distorted and superstitious reports," and for the creation of a German Church anchored not in abstract dogma and denomination, but in the forces of blood, race and soil.

1930 Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch publishes a book entitled Doktor Steiner -- ein Schwindler wie keiner, reviling Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophy movement as another agent of the Jewish world conspiracy.

1930 From 1930 on, Henrich Himmler busies himself with a number of projects designed to express the moral purpose and ideological mission of the SS.

1930 The Cult of Our Lady of Fatima is authorized by the Catholic Church.

1930 Huey P. Long is elected to the U.S. Senate. Long will not resign as governor of Louisiana until his handpicked successor, Oscar (O.K.) Allen, is chosen to replace him in 1932.

1930 American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers the planet Pluto.

1930 Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli becomes Papal Secretary of State under Pope Pius XI.

1930 British engineer Frank Whittle patents a gas turbine engine for jet aircraft.

1930 Carol II is proclaimed king of Romania.

1930 Haile Selassie is declared emperor of Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

1930 The city of Constantinople is renamed Istanbul.

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