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1930Aug, 30

Noel Harford

Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (d. 1981)
Noel Sherwin Harford (30 August 1930 – 30 March 1981) was a New Zealand cricketer who played eight Tests in the 1950s. In domestic cricket he played for Central Districts from 1953 to 1959 and for Auckland from 1963 to 1967.

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Events on 1930

  • 12Mar

    Salt March

    Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India
  • 6Apr

    Salt Satyagraha

    Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
  • 7Jul

    Hoover Dam

    Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
  • 6Sep

    Hipólito Yrigoyen

    Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
  • 24Oct

    Getúlio Vargas

    A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas is then installed as "provisional president".