Timeline August 1930

Events in August 1930 11

• 1883 – 1930 Lon Chaney (1883-1930) Died 26 August 1930, aged 47 American silent film actor known as the Man of a Thousand Faces for his makeup and physical transformations. His best-known roles were in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. He died of cancer shortly after making his only sound film.
• 1930 US Championships 1930 Men: John Doeg · Women: Betty Nuthall
• 1930 – 2002 Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Died 23 January 2002, aged 71 Pierre Bourdieu was among the most influential sociologists of the late 20th century. His concepts of cultural capital and habitus, set out in works such as Distinction, analysed how social hierarchies are reproduced through taste and education. In his later years he became a prominent public critic of neoliberal globalisation.
• 1930 – 2012 Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) Died 25 August 2012, aged 82 American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. He died from complications following heart surgery.
• 1930 First British Empire Games Forerunner of the Commonwealth Games held in Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton, Ontario, hosted the first British Empire Games, with about 400 athletes from eleven nations. England topped the medal table. The event continues today as the Commonwealth Games.
• 1930 Trujillo takes power in the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo inaugurated as president After a coup against President Horacio Vásquez and an election marked by intimidation, Rafael Trujillo was inaugurated as president. He ruled the Dominican Republic as dictator until he was assassinated in 1961.
• 1930 Pact of San Sebastián Spanish republicans agree to overthrow the monarchy Republican and regionalist politicians met in San Sebastián and agreed on a coordinated plan to replace the Spanish monarchy with a republic. The committee they formed became the provisional government of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931.
• 1930 – 2009 Frank McCourt (1930-2009) Died 19 July 2009, aged 78 McCourt was an Irish-American author who won the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir Angela's Ashes, recounting his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland. The book became an international bestseller and was adapted into a film. He wrote two further memoirs later in his career.
• 1930 – 2002 Princess Margaret (1930-2002) Died 9 February 2002, aged 71 Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. In the 1950s she gave up plans to marry the divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend, a decision seen as a clash between duty and personal life. Her later years were marked by ill health following several strokes.
• 1930 Leguía overthrown in Peru Sánchez Cerro's revolt ends the Oncenio Lieutenant Colonel Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro launched a revolt in Arequipa against President Augusto B. Leguía. Leguía was forced to resign within days. This ended his eleven-year rule, known as the Oncenio.
• 1930 – 2020 Sean Connery (1930-2020) Died 31 October 2020, aged 90 Sean Connery was a Scottish actor who became the first to play James Bond on screen, starring in seven Bond films, and later won an Academy Award for The Untouchables. He died on 31 October 2020 in the Bahamas.