1930 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1930 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, Labour
[edit] Events
- 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).
- 14 July - Transmission by the BBC of the first experimental television play, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth.
- 5 October - British Airship R101 crashed in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
- 24 December - In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
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[edit] 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)
- 9 May - Joan Sims, actress (died 2001)
- 13 August - Bernard Manning, comedian (died 2007)
- 17 August - Ted Hughes, poet (died 1998)
- 25 August - Sean Connery, actor
- 10 October - Harold Pinter, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 28 October - Bernie Ecclestone, auto racing tycoon
- 14 November - Shirley Crabtree, professional wrestler (died 1997)
- 1 December - Kenneth Box, track and field sprinter
- 27 December - Wilfrid Sheed, English-born American writer
[edit] 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)
