Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1930.

New York Times, October 9, - charges of sorcery brought against Henry Dorn, of Janesville, Wis. "After a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners listened to the charges of sorcery, he said he was convinced that they were unfounded." Dorn's sister had accused him of "casting spells of sickness" upon members of her household. - Charles Fort, Wild Talents.

January

January 6: The first diesel engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
January 6: The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by A. A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U.S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.
January 13: The Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
January 24: A coroner's inquiry at Kingston, New York, into the death of Mrs Stanley Lake reports that "although her body was severely burned, her clothing was not even scorched." (Books930)
January 26: The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).

February

February: Peter Kurten, 'The Vampire of Dusseldorf', continues his reign of terror with a number of hammer attacks upon unsuspecting vistims. (Books881)
February 18: While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when the term "planet" was officially defined. Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.
February 18: Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane, and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.

March

March: 'The Vampire of Dusseldorf', Peter Kurten continues to engage in a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks. (Books881)
March 2: Mahatma Gandhi informs the British viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin 9 days later.
March 5: Danish painter Einar Wegener goes through a sexual reassignment surgery and takes the name Lili Elbe.
March 6: The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
March 12: Mahatma Gandhi sets off on a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt; more will join them during the Salt March that ends on April 5.
March 28: Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
March 31: The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next 40 years.

April

April 5: In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
April 17: Neoprene is invented.
April 18: The BBC Radio Service from London, somewhat infamously, reports on this day that "There is no news".
April 21: A fire in the Ohio Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320 people.
April 21: The Turkestan-Siberia Railway is completed.
April 28: In an account of an eclipse of the sun, Dr H.M. Jeffers of the Lick Observatory states: "We expected the shadow to be but half a mile in width. Instead of that, I think that it was nearer five miles broad." (Books725)

May

May 4-5: Mahatma Gandhi is arrested again.
May 6: The Great Salmas Earthquake in Iran (7.3 on the Richter Scale) kills 4,000 people.
May 15: Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
May 17: French Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland (they depart by June 30).
May 20: Sergei Eisenstein arrives in New York City.
May 24: Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
May 24: Following an attack on a young woman named Maria Budlick, Peter Kursten is arrested after confessing to his wife and telling her to inform the police. (Books881)
May 30: Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures; they part ways by October.
May 30: William "Red" Hill Sr. makes his famous five-hour journey down the Niagara lower rapids.

June

June 9: Chicago Tribune journalist Jake Lingle is shot in Chicago, Illinois. Newspapers promise $55,000 reward for information. Lingle is later found to have had contacts with organized crime.

July

July 7: Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is started.
July 13: The first Football World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.
July 26: Charles Creighton and James Hargis of Missouri begin their return journey to Los Angeles, driving 11,555 km using only a reverse gear; the trip lasts the next 42 days.
July 30: Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 in the first association football World Cup Final.
July 31: The radio drama The Shadow airs for the first time.

August

August 6: Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears.
August 9: Betty Boop premiers in the animated film Dizzy Dishes.
August 12: Turkish troops move into Persia to fight Kurdish insurgents.
August 27: A military junta takes over in Peru.

September

September 6: José Félix Uriburu carries out a successful military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina.
September 12: Cricket player Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1,110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians.
September 14: National Socialists win 107 seats in the German Parliament (18.3% of all the votes), making them the second largest party.

October

October 5: British Airship R101 crashes in France en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
October 7: New York Sun, the arm of William Lumsden, of Roslyn, Washington, crushed under a tractor. He was the third person, in three generations, in his family, to loose a left arm. (Books848)
October 18: "I made an experiment. I read these notes (notes upon falling pictures) aloud to A (Anna Fort), to see whether there would be a repetition of the experience of Oct. 15, 1929. Nothing fell." (Charles Fort - Books980)
October 24: Revolution of 1930: Getúlio Dornelles Vargas takes power in Brazil.
October 25: The New York Times reorts that about forty automobiles had been stalled, for an hour, on the road, in Saxony, between Risa and Wurzen. (Books957)

November

November 1: The "Silent Sniper" terrorises the people of Boston, USA. Two men and a women are shot by a noiseless weapon, small calibre bullets are removed from their wounds. Policemen, armed with riot guns, line the roads south of Boston. The attacks continued until February, 1931. No body was caught. (Books894)
November 2: Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
November 3: Getúlio Vargas becomes president of Brazil.
November 25: An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.
November 28: An enourmous fall, from the sky, of dust and mud, in France. - attrubuted to a hurricane in the Sahara Desert. (Books832)

December

Turkish women are given the right to vote.
December 2: Great Depression: U.S. President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
December 5: "Scores die; 300 stricken by poison fog in Belgium; panic grips the countryside. Origin complete mystery. War scenes recalled." (Books574)
December 12: A resident of the Bronx, Elisha Shamray - who changed his name from Rayevsky - died during the night. His brother, Dr. Charles Rayevsky, came from Liberty, N.Y. to arrange the funeral. He died a week later. The next night, the third of these brothers, Michael Shamray, was struck and killed by an automobile whilst on his way to arrange the second funeral. (Books992)
December 19: Merapi volcano in Indonesia erupts, killing 1,300.
December 24: In London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
December 28: Mohandas Gandhi leaves for Britain for negotiations.
December 29: Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the Two-Nation Theory, outlining a vision for the creation of Pakistan.